You want a middle-aged woman to run an ultramarathon or start a wellness empire? Can’t I just have a breakdown? writes Emma Beddington
If you are more into physical than intellectual loin-girding, I read that Gwyneth Paltrow’s chiselled abs are achievable at 50, even if your nutrient intake exceeds an. Middle-aged men, there is hope for you, too: you can get as chiselled as 43-year-old David Gandy with no breakfast and weights. Then, if you were thinking literal loins – no problem, according to the Daily Mail, where the sex therapist Tracey Cox recently declared that women around her are getting “sexually WILD”.
It’s not just my terrible personality . Certainly, the self-improvement industry has tuned into a demographic who might have achieved a degree of financial stability , offering up glittering examples of midlife self-actualisation, fuelling ambitions it can facilitate with books, retreats and supplements. In the US, you can even take a luxe self-help course on approaching midlife with the “Modern Elder Academy” for $5,500 a week .
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