At first, I couldn't catch up with their speech because they were speaking very fast and ı am not accustomed to listening  the speech of native speakers. I listened it over and over and took notes while ı was listening then ı paraphrased it. It was a good experiement but a hard process for me :)

AFTER I WAS GORGEOUS

Jean Shrimpton, Tania Mallet, Lysette Anthony, Annabel Giles, Jilly Johnson were interviewed by Deborah Bull. In Deborah’s interview some questions like “what happens to these beautiful women as they grow older?”, how women cope with the process of getting older?” were included and she also wants to know what happens after she was gorgeous.

Deborah Bull begin her interview with the question : “ Why we value beauty so highly in our society?” to find out the answer she interviewed with Geoffrey Beattie the Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester, he believes that the symmetry in the face seems to be a biological indicator of particular genetic background . Sarah Churchwell; the professor of University of East Anglia. Sarah investigates gender studies written about some of the most beautiful women in the world and how the beauty is a power for women. Then the interviewer goes to the Louise Court ( UK editor of Cosmopolitan magazine)’s office. Deborah asks what makes a beauty icon? Louse gives an interesting answer. She thinks that an icon is not just about appearance it’s something about her spirit. There has to be a good spirit inside the woman.

Any woman who has been rewarded for beauty is going to be anxious about aging. Now let’s see the interviews with the models themselves. Deborah’s question is “How the beauty icons feel about their looks in their hey-days.”? Firstly she interviewed with Lysette Anthony who still has a kind of child like beauty. Because of her age, she is about to lose her beauty. The second model who was interviewed by Deborah was Jean Shrimpton (one of the best models in sixties) says that she has a bit weakened looking as she ages and she does not worried about her looking anymore.

The other question was “are these six icons aware of the physical changes in their bodies?” even Annabel is 21, she notices her body started to change and crinkle. Tania mallet tells the day when she noticed that she had 'not young skin anymore. But for her getting older is not a threat for her identity. She can relax when she thinks that everybody will get older. For Jilly Johnson the aging process was like a joke she didn’t like it but she tried her best to keen everything in the right place and she believes that as women age they have to look younger and still beautiful.

The other question was “Do the beauty icons need plastic surgery or Botox to look younger?” Jilly Johnson doesn’t have a problem with plastic surgery she loves it and she has had her face lift. She says that whenever she needs it she would do it.Annabel Giles has also had plastic surgery. She says that it is the best thing she did. it raised his confidence level because she started to feel looking older and tidied than she felt she says “ I just took an action”.

The interviewer says that like balet dansers, most models will have plans to be on their career when they reach certain age their career will come to an end. Annabel Giles is ready to change and says that she started TV presentations because she loves communicating with people and giving information she just wanted to do something else she started in TV but her favorite job is always in radio because she knows that she performs her personality than her look in radio.

The last question was “What are your advices to women to look amazing” Firstly Tania Mallet answers this question by saying “they should never take their beauty granted. They should always know that they will lose it very quickly”. Therefore they have responsibility to use it wisely for example for charity works. Lysette Anthony says thay they should enjoy their beauty and use it because they will lose it in one point.

please click here to listen the interview.

my personal questions

1- Is there anythink you want to suggest for anti-aging?
2-What is the relationship between beauty and fame? Is beauty a basic requirement for being famous?