9-year-old fashion tips
My 9 year old daughter, who knows everything, informed me that I was too old to even think about wearing a bikini or even a two piece. She informed me that tankinis were OK because they covered my...
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HILARIOUS
When I was about to turn 41, I was leaving the city I was living in and was able to buy a dress in the ‘red light’ district (which doesn’t have anything bigger than size 6) for my farewell party. Then...
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Olivia d’Abo was the hot older daughter!
The AmeriCorps (2o-something) in my office were discussing doppelgangers. I remarked that I was never really told I look like anyone-oh, except for the sister on the Wonder Years (Olivia d’Abo...
View ArticleRelief, of a kind
Finally! I don’t get hit on all the time. It’s kind of nice to be able to go to the store and be checked out (no pun intended) without the clerk asking me if I’ve got a boyfriend. Don’t get me...
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There comes a time in your life when u suddenly realize that you are not cute anymore. You are still pretty and more secure, hopefully more intelligent and secure, but you just don’t turn heads the way...
View ArticleA classic, truly
I’m strangely not embarrassed to admit that my FORMERLY moment involves a velour jogging suit, fleece-lined crocs, a bird store…and Cheerios. I was just shy of 41 when I needed to wrap up some...
View ArticlePerspective, people
I just read your book and appreciated it, though I can’t really relate. Not only am I 15 years older than you, I was never hot. I have a mild case of cerebral palsy; while I can, thank God, walk and...
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Love this post! from Autumn
This blog is my story, all over. I am a Formerly Hot blonde..always the ‘pretty one’ in the family, never lacking for attention or dates. Fast forward…I’m now 42, mother of four blonde blessings, and...
View ArticleThe circle of life
My mom was (and still is) petite. We wore the same size when I was in high school in the early 1980′s. She used to pass really cute clothes or shoes over to me by saying “It’s too young for me”....
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IVY WROTE: Formerly a martial artist. Formerly a belly dancer. Formerly designer. Formerly an actress. Formerly a legal secretary. Formerly married, and, I thought, loved. No longer any of those...
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Suddenly the oldest
K WROTE: I was always the youngest –in my class, at work, among my friends. Then I worked for five years b/f I started law school. Suddenly I was the oldest. And — seven years later, still the oldest....
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Fashion forward, people!
KIMBERLY WROTE: Ray-bans, how I love thee, but sometimes I’m afraid my desire is driven by intense nostalgia for those former days of the 80’s and I’m also afraid the youngsters (hipsters) will think...
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Happy birthday, Sweet Adult Tween
NOELLE WROTE: I have two precious things in my life, one that makes me feel “hot” – the perfect little black dress – and one that makes me feel “formerly hot” – a 15 year old daughter. Her friend had a...
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DENISE IN SF WROTE: Well, what I can tell you is that I wasn’t hot in my 20s. I was fat and insecure, but still pretty. In my 40’s I turn more heads and feel fantastic. Everyone who disagrees with...
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24 with a bullet
SARAH WROTE: On the brink of the recently coined “quarter-life crisis” at 24, I came to the conclusion that my burgeoning comfort in my own skin much more satisfying and interesting than where to find...
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No longer the youngest
MARI WROTE: I used to get, “You’re too young to be a doctor,” all the time, to the point that I would wear glasses to look more respected and older. Now we have residents 10 years younger than me and...
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Wake up call
LYNNE WROTE: As hot as I became in my 40’s (best shape, looks, hair, muscles, body, confidence)….there was nothing like this wake-up call. Just walk down the street with your 20 year old daughter –...
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ROBIN WROTE: I was married by age 23, and had my daughter when I was 27. Those were my years of dragging around diape rbags and wearing formula stains on my clothes. I love my husband and daughter!! I...
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Playing doctor
ANON WROTE: The worst was the time I took my son to the pediatrician, he must have been 7 so this was only last year, and this young woman comes in and introduces herself as the doctor, (she looked...
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Suddenly the oldest
K WROTE: I was always the youngest –in my class, at work, among my friends. Then I worked for five years b/f I started law school. Suddenly I was the oldest. And — seven years later, still the oldest....
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