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Momma Nancy's avatar

The only way to achieve what she has, at her age, is to pay big bucks for a personal trainer and dietician and chef and to make your personal image your main work to the exclusion of all else.

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malia's avatar

The elite also incorporate electric stimulation suits into their work outs. It optimizes the muscle potential. All that effort. Too bad there’s no inner beauty for this woman, a semblance of real feminine power. No points from me. This stuff is too hard to keep up and has no real value in the long run. There is always the exhaustive keeping up that is not satisfying.

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Elwyn's avatar

Yes, I think her physique was part of the performance on the big day. Weekend. Not sustainable.

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Jane Baker's avatar

Not so much a wedding,more a 3 ring circus.

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Elwyn's avatar

Spot on!

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malia's avatar

There must be the lingering question, “Now what?”

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Me Again's avatar

Steroids. These women are on steroids.

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Penny Evans's avatar

Maybe plastic surgery?

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Penny Evans's avatar

Probably a fair bit of plastic surgery.

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Lynne Farrage's avatar

This is such an important article. I didn't really have any idea how this look was achieved and now I realise that for mere mortals like me, 59 years old, strength training 3 times a week, living a normal life, I can't attain this. It's enough to be strong, fit and capable

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Karen Thompson's avatar

It is not worth achieving. Who cares. Walk every day. Lift things. Dance. Eat healthy. Who cares if your arms are fit and fat free ?

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Anne Marie Chaker's avatar

That’s exactly right.

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Susan Basham's avatar

As long as I can lift up my carry on (50 pounds) into the overhead on the plane, and pick up things that must be lifted, I’ll call it good.

I once purchased a fitness magazine, the cover a muscled woman, at store. The man behind me in line tapped me and said “excuse me, but can you tell me why women want to look that way?”

My answer :“being strong is the best defense ”.

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Jane Baker's avatar

Being funny and witty is the best defence

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Susan Basham's avatar

Isn’t that the truth! It can sure get you far in life!

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Joanne Yankovich's avatar

I competed in natural bodybuilding when younger. For those of us who tend toward perfectionism, the road to the show can be exciting and gratifying. The challenge is when you stop, because you realize you’ll never look that good again.

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Kathleen Ruhle's avatar

At 66, I’m just focused on maintaining my health and mobility and I work on that. But I maintain it so I can enjoy that ice cream cone on the boardwalk with my kids and grandkids, so I can sip wine at sunset with my husband, so I can travel to bucket list places with him and have mall lunch dates with my life long friends. I don’t live my life for cameras or public approval.

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malia's avatar

This is real wealth, Kathleen.

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Kathy Stoia's avatar

?

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Gilda Lorensen's avatar

Her body is quite bizarre. I suspect she’s had lower ribs surgicallyRemoved to get that tiny waist, fake nails, extremely false huge breasts, plump weird injected lips, no wrinkles in a woman her age. It’s pretty terrifying. Barbie doll stuff. As a feminist and an aging woman, I totally object to this bullshit. She’s setting a really bad example for our young women And men as well.

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Very Tired's avatar

Her lips are grotesque

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Jennifer From Ottawa's avatar

Absolutely she’s had ribs surgically removed. They also did that in the Victorian age

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

It’s another form of performative wealth. You don’t get time to indulge in creating that body if you’re working 60 hours per week and doing all your own housework and childcare.

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Darren Bush's avatar

That dress is a freaking lampshade with a very dim bulb in it. What were they thinking?

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Lillian Holsworth's avatar

Yep- that dress looks like it has a drapery valance from a 1980 House Beautiful photo shoot

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Darren Bush's avatar

That is absolutely perfectly described. I bow to my Sensei.

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Lydia Creydt's avatar

Professional ballet dancers generally train 5 to 6 hours a day, at least 6 days a week. It is probably the most intensive level of sustained athleticism of any “sport”. Dame Darcy Bussel, a Principal with the Royal Ballet, retired at the height of her fame in her late thirties: anything later than that invites serious structural bodily injury, usually to the feet, ankles, knees, hips or back, and Darcy had a few mishaps before she retired. Eventually, the recovery time makes achieving the prior level of athleticism impossible. I only mention this to illustrate how fleeting the “ballerina” body actually is, how difficult it is to obtain and how injury prone.

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Patricia's avatar

Michelle Obama has gorgeous arms. At the same time, she looks healthy not sinewy lean.

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Rebecca's avatar

And yet look at the flak she took for having such good arms. I guess the skin covering them wasn’t the right color

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Patricia's avatar

I never understood that, honestly

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Heléna Kurçab's avatar

I agree! Her arms are amazing!

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Jane Baker's avatar

and two of them!

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Defiant's avatar

They are not of our world, yet we pay for it by buying their shit and purchasing services they provide. Their gratitude is enslaving us to poverty and making us pay more in taxes to support their grifting off the government. The richer they are, the more power they have. Time to stop shrugging our shoulders and stop enriching them.

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Albin Trein's avatar

A blow-up doll would be cheaper. Available on Amazon for $23.

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Julie Dusold Culbertson's avatar

I mean, there's also the fact that anyone so lean cannot naturally have an enormous set of breasts. The 14 year old girls (and boys!) on social media often don't know the bodies they're seeing weren't just built by Pilates and restrictive dieting, but also butt and boob implants.

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Jayne Freiall's avatar

Gloria Swanson wants her lampshade back.

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Elizabeth Stone's avatar

Thank you so much for explaining this in such a simple and clear way. Your specific expertise here is so valuable.

It’s so easy for someone who has never been particularly lean or fit to think “well when I get skinny, I *should* look like this” when it’s a nearly bikini category competition-ready look that requires such a high level of effort, cooperative lifestyle dynamics, financial privilege and genetics.

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Kristen's avatar

Exactly why is she worth paying the tiniest bit of attention to?

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Rick Salzman's avatar

Wow! I love this piece -- very powerful and thought provoking!

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Linda Malboeuf's avatar

No it wasn’t

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KaiteeO's avatar

Attractive to who? To other women, likely. I used to be super thin, was recovering my self from a narcissist who nitpicked my body to where I was never thin enough. Enter my husband-to-be. He told me I looked good in clothes, but was way too boney naked. Shocker! He explained how men love women for their differences…men were supposed to be the strong, ripped, muscular ones…women softer, smoother, with curves. Opposite.

I think the reason Sanchez has that look to her arms is that she has broad shoulders. Not terribly typical in women. Much easier to make arms look shapely with that build.

But seriously…fake boobs, assume missing some ribs, and the overly plumped lips…I don’t think she’d look good naked. She is an ornament on his arm.

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