Well, it sounds like your wife is blessed with youth, and people do show their ages differently. I had thought of including Tina Turner as an example - she kept fabulous legs for her performances well past when I'd have thought it possible, but the document had grown long.
Cher is sort of the idealized example of this; she has every possible advantage she could have here: an excellent plastic surgeon (or several), a great makeup artist, excellent lighting, great costuming, the photo's surely touched up, and judging by how her last few albums went she's probably auto-tuned as well. What does she look like under all that? Probably significantly less glam. But she's been selling glam for decades (and so has Madonna); that's the nature of Hollywood.
I've not entirely eyeballed the prospective ages of the people in question - I deferred it to computer analysis to avoid seeming biased. I was going to post some age comparable stock photos for sixty/seventy/eighty year old people, but Comments doesn't let me do that, so I'll gracefully let you win instead! (One presumes that they're not all dolled up whereas clearly the Hollywood types are doing their best to look as good as possible, so I'll give you that's some large portion of the differentiator.)
I really thought MacKenzie and Jeff were a love story for the ages, but gonna file that under What Do I Know.
With the caveat that all people age differently, my anecdotal experience has been that aging tends to plateau from roughly 40 to roughly 60, and then somewhere in the mid-60's it starts up again like falling off a cliff. 20 years ago, my wife and I joined a church group where the other members were 10 to 15 years older than us, but it was a good fit personality wise. At that time the age difference wasn't that noticeable (us around 40 and most of them over 50). Now that we're nearing 60 and they are 70-ish, the age gap is glaring. There's no surgery or make-up that can fix that. I didn't use to pay that much attention but every Sunday now is a shocking reminder of how we age. There's no way a 70 year old woman (Priscilla) is going look like she's 50, no matter how much work is done. She would be better off trying to look like a nice 70 year old instead. (ala Betty White).
Also, women tend to do those things to impress other women, not men. Or else appease the demons living in their head. And they focus intensely on minor features while ignoring the overall package. I can safely say that no man has ever said "Wow, her eyebrows were spot on! That's real beauty right there!". And while I'm on that subject, no man I've ever met has thought that nose jewelry adds any sex appeal. Puffed up botox forehead and collagen injected lips don't make a woman look younger, it puts her in that uncanny valley where most men recoil away as if they ran into a wendigo or chupacagra. It's just not natural.
Women - if you want to attract men - have a pleasant personality, smile as often as possible, and laugh at our juvenile humor. That and sex is really all we're looking for.
As someone who's 59 and married to a 56 year old wife, I have to say that none of those women look all that young. Your estimations of their appearance ages are way way off. Most of that cosmetic surgery makes them look like aliens too. Cher's pic is definitely air-brushed. Priscilla looks old, maybe not 80 but definitely a woman in her 70's, even with the surgery. Which is just sad. Her daughter looks easily in her 60's. A rough 60 too. Very rough. Madonna is freakishly ugly and old looking to boot. Sorry, but surgery did not help any of them and in most cases made things worse.
As to the two main women you covered, McKensey looks far better that the other chic. Her book author pic totally looks great. Lauren? The only picture where she didn't look like a transvestite freak was the before pic with her kids.
But as grandpa always said, find one with a personality, cause they all get old and fat eventually.
100% the step down from wholesome looking Mackenzie to the transvestite woman...and not even a nice one, she looks like a scary, aggressive tranny ...is perhaps the best evidence that being a billionaire is bad for mental health I've ever seen.
The richest man on earth choosing voluntarily to marry a woman in her 50s who looks like a combination of a tranny, Howard the Duck, and a walking cadaver is...maybe sort of a white pill in a weird way?!? I mean, he must not be that shallow actually?? Or she has really good blackmail or all his billions have actually warped his visual cortex?? If she was just sort plain or haggard rather than aggressively weird looking, I might think it was possible that she just had a fantastic personality, but I can't imagine someone who chooses to look like that having a good personality, so it can't be that.
And, I normally would not be so rude about someone's appearance, but given that she CHOOSES that appearance and clearly makes aggressive efforts to purposely look that way, makes me feel okay about it. But this whole thing is really inexplicable if not for just straight up wealth-induced insanity, or testosterone poisoning of some sort. A swimsuit model or trophy wife ...okay, kind of a cliche, a bit vulgar and silly to marry, but understandable. I don't know WHAT this is.
Thank you for prompting me to write the absolute most bitchy comment I've ever composed. 😡 Couldn't help it.
I am 73 and Cher absolutely amazes me. Did you see that clip of her skipping across a stage during a recent gig? I can barely wobble to the kitchen these days!
It’s nice that in an article that started as a discussion about how jacked Bezos ends up trashing women with plastic surgery because they are afraid of being judged for getting old and fat. But at least it looks like he found someone to fix his wonky eye.
I did try to lean into the male end of the aesthetic surgery thing as well; I didn't talk about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his gynecomastia reduction surgery to deal with the aftermath of too much steroid use (mostly because I couldn't find good pictures of it). Perhaps this should have stayed as two separate articles.
I think that there's generally an uncanny valley of "someone people get too much plastic surgery" that is commonly objected to - Priscilla and now Lauren are probably going to be there - but my intention with this article was to point out what has worked well for people. For better or worse, Priscilla was on Dancing with the Stars in 2021 - 54 years after she famously married Elvis - and her energy levels held up. But when you watch the show, some of her facial features are sort of - suppressed - subtly different than botox, or perhaps just a different dosage than I'm used to seeing on people. One of those strange things in life that looks normal in a still shot and slightly odd in person or in a moving image.
I will have you know that people had been pestering Jeff for decades to have that cosmetic surgery to his eyelid. I imagine that was probably one of the evident signs that he was taking Lauren seriously that she was able to talk him into it when so many other people weren't.
I'm not an expert but I think Scott has gotten what I'd call a tasteful amount of work done. Definitely a boob job and maybe work on her midsection and for sure a nutritionist and personal trainer. She has a very wholesome look in contrast to Sanchez and gorgeous skin. Never liked the pancake/airbrush look.
The second nuptials in Venice are inappropriate for two older people with grown children from previous marriages (or not, in Sanchez's case). The more I read about Sanchez the more she seems like an adventuress. That plastic surgery is getting really bizarre.
Well, it sounds like your wife is blessed with youth, and people do show their ages differently. I had thought of including Tina Turner as an example - she kept fabulous legs for her performances well past when I'd have thought it possible, but the document had grown long.
Cher is sort of the idealized example of this; she has every possible advantage she could have here: an excellent plastic surgeon (or several), a great makeup artist, excellent lighting, great costuming, the photo's surely touched up, and judging by how her last few albums went she's probably auto-tuned as well. What does she look like under all that? Probably significantly less glam. But she's been selling glam for decades (and so has Madonna); that's the nature of Hollywood.
I've not entirely eyeballed the prospective ages of the people in question - I deferred it to computer analysis to avoid seeming biased. I was going to post some age comparable stock photos for sixty/seventy/eighty year old people, but Comments doesn't let me do that, so I'll gracefully let you win instead! (One presumes that they're not all dolled up whereas clearly the Hollywood types are doing their best to look as good as possible, so I'll give you that's some large portion of the differentiator.)
I really thought MacKenzie and Jeff were a love story for the ages, but gonna file that under What Do I Know.
With the caveat that all people age differently, my anecdotal experience has been that aging tends to plateau from roughly 40 to roughly 60, and then somewhere in the mid-60's it starts up again like falling off a cliff. 20 years ago, my wife and I joined a church group where the other members were 10 to 15 years older than us, but it was a good fit personality wise. At that time the age difference wasn't that noticeable (us around 40 and most of them over 50). Now that we're nearing 60 and they are 70-ish, the age gap is glaring. There's no surgery or make-up that can fix that. I didn't use to pay that much attention but every Sunday now is a shocking reminder of how we age. There's no way a 70 year old woman (Priscilla) is going look like she's 50, no matter how much work is done. She would be better off trying to look like a nice 70 year old instead. (ala Betty White).
Also, women tend to do those things to impress other women, not men. Or else appease the demons living in their head. And they focus intensely on minor features while ignoring the overall package. I can safely say that no man has ever said "Wow, her eyebrows were spot on! That's real beauty right there!". And while I'm on that subject, no man I've ever met has thought that nose jewelry adds any sex appeal. Puffed up botox forehead and collagen injected lips don't make a woman look younger, it puts her in that uncanny valley where most men recoil away as if they ran into a wendigo or chupacagra. It's just not natural.
Women - if you want to attract men - have a pleasant personality, smile as often as possible, and laugh at our juvenile humor. That and sex is really all we're looking for.
just the bonding with a woman thru sex....most everything else is group dynamics.
As someone who's 59 and married to a 56 year old wife, I have to say that none of those women look all that young. Your estimations of their appearance ages are way way off. Most of that cosmetic surgery makes them look like aliens too. Cher's pic is definitely air-brushed. Priscilla looks old, maybe not 80 but definitely a woman in her 70's, even with the surgery. Which is just sad. Her daughter looks easily in her 60's. A rough 60 too. Very rough. Madonna is freakishly ugly and old looking to boot. Sorry, but surgery did not help any of them and in most cases made things worse.
As to the two main women you covered, McKensey looks far better that the other chic. Her book author pic totally looks great. Lauren? The only picture where she didn't look like a transvestite freak was the before pic with her kids.
But as grandpa always said, find one with a personality, cause they all get old and fat eventually.
100% the step down from wholesome looking Mackenzie to the transvestite woman...and not even a nice one, she looks like a scary, aggressive tranny ...is perhaps the best evidence that being a billionaire is bad for mental health I've ever seen.
I'd give you Howard Hughes as the iconic example of that trope but we have some candidates for sure.
The richest man on earth choosing voluntarily to marry a woman in her 50s who looks like a combination of a tranny, Howard the Duck, and a walking cadaver is...maybe sort of a white pill in a weird way?!? I mean, he must not be that shallow actually?? Or she has really good blackmail or all his billions have actually warped his visual cortex?? If she was just sort plain or haggard rather than aggressively weird looking, I might think it was possible that she just had a fantastic personality, but I can't imagine someone who chooses to look like that having a good personality, so it can't be that.
And, I normally would not be so rude about someone's appearance, but given that she CHOOSES that appearance and clearly makes aggressive efforts to purposely look that way, makes me feel okay about it. But this whole thing is really inexplicable if not for just straight up wealth-induced insanity, or testosterone poisoning of some sort. A swimsuit model or trophy wife ...okay, kind of a cliche, a bit vulgar and silly to marry, but understandable. I don't know WHAT this is.
Thank you for prompting me to write the absolute most bitchy comment I've ever composed. 😡 Couldn't help it.
Have you seen Lauren Sanchez’s pictorial in the WSJ? (How have the mighty fallen! (The paper, I mean.)) it changed my opinion of her appearance.
It looks to me as if MacKenzie Scott is setting a match to her half of the Amazon fortune. There’s no way that money is being spent well.
I am 73 and Cher absolutely amazes me. Did you see that clip of her skipping across a stage during a recent gig? I can barely wobble to the kitchen these days!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ww8PuCC4LxQ
The billionaire peeled off his shirt. He had been working out at the gym, and it showed!
It’s nice that in an article that started as a discussion about how jacked Bezos ends up trashing women with plastic surgery because they are afraid of being judged for getting old and fat. But at least it looks like he found someone to fix his wonky eye.
I did try to lean into the male end of the aesthetic surgery thing as well; I didn't talk about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his gynecomastia reduction surgery to deal with the aftermath of too much steroid use (mostly because I couldn't find good pictures of it). Perhaps this should have stayed as two separate articles.
I think that there's generally an uncanny valley of "someone people get too much plastic surgery" that is commonly objected to - Priscilla and now Lauren are probably going to be there - but my intention with this article was to point out what has worked well for people. For better or worse, Priscilla was on Dancing with the Stars in 2021 - 54 years after she famously married Elvis - and her energy levels held up. But when you watch the show, some of her facial features are sort of - suppressed - subtly different than botox, or perhaps just a different dosage than I'm used to seeing on people. One of those strange things in life that looks normal in a still shot and slightly odd in person or in a moving image.
I will have you know that people had been pestering Jeff for decades to have that cosmetic surgery to his eyelid. I imagine that was probably one of the evident signs that he was taking Lauren seriously that she was able to talk him into it when so many other people weren't.
Stumbled onto this article scrolling through Substack, and was just…delighted. Thanks for doing what you do.
A fun scroll I shared with friends for a good laugh.
I'm not an expert but I think Scott has gotten what I'd call a tasteful amount of work done. Definitely a boob job and maybe work on her midsection and for sure a nutritionist and personal trainer. She has a very wholesome look in contrast to Sanchez and gorgeous skin. Never liked the pancake/airbrush look.
The second nuptials in Venice are inappropriate for two older people with grown children from previous marriages (or not, in Sanchez's case). The more I read about Sanchez the more she seems like an adventuress. That plastic surgery is getting really bizarre.
With respect, a nutritionist and personal trainer are not “work done”.
Quite interesting - if a bit meandering
But he’s getting NewScums sloppy seconds
I’m going to rewatch Fight Club and try to spot Lauren.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLDpQYqxSaP/
Fantastic Article! :)