Did anyone see the article on the Daily Mail yesterday about former Blue Peter presenter Zoe Salmon? It was basically saying she looks unrecognisable because she has brown hair, typical Daily Mail crap but it said in the article that Zoe Salmon was 42 and honestly, babs looks like she could be her Mother rather than 2 years older (at the absolute most, babs is probably only 18 months older).
How can babs look at people the same age as her, and not want to have a drastic overhaul of her lifestyle? Just absolutely beggars belief.
i think that, in itself, is the problem! babs looks so much older than the vast majority of women her age, she's seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are of a similar age to her! she's adamant that - apart from the real housewives of wherever the
duck - there are
no women over the age of 40 on TV! it's simply because babs sees these women and - understandbly - assumes that they're much younger than her, because they don't resemble babs: a forty-four year old toddler, trapped in the body of a 65 year old! if babs doesn't see herself eflected back at her, she simply assumes that a woman isn't her age - because obvs a woman does not fit babs' stereotypical view of a 44 year old unless she is a replica image of babs - beige, waxy skin, sunken eyes, "mum tum" always concealed by shapeless, sack-like frocks, destroyed yellow hair, inability to walk up the stairs without extreme breathlessness, absolutely zero interest in her health, fuelled by pure sugar with a thick layer of make-up applied like a pantomime dame! remember that time she FUMING when searching for swimming costumes that the plus-size model wasn't an exact mirror image if babs herself? no mum tum?! definitely not plus size OR over 40!
babs would never believe that zoe salmon - or the reams of other women who adorn her tv screen who are well over the age of forty, including the entire cast if her beloved SATC, even in the very first series - are above the age of 40, because her perception of a 40 year old woman is totally skewed. when babs looks in the mirror, she sees the reflection of a far older woman gurning abck at her, and interprets that as the standard appearance of women her age, thus anyone else MUST be younger, and babs won't bother to alter her lifestyle because she doesn't understand that she could look so much more her age if she did!