Women Over 40 Share Their Photos To Help Others Stress Less About Ageing

In an effort to show it's now ALL downhill after 40, these people have graciously shared their own photos proving age is just a number.

Ariana

• Published in Interesting
• June 16, 2021

Ageing is hard. I know better than anyone, because, on my last birthday, I turned thirty.

Before you laugh, hear me out! Thirty, in the grand-scheme of life, really isn't the end of the world, but for me it was the first time I ever felt... older.

No longer being in my twenties was hard to wrap my head around and I wasn't sure why. The more I thought about, the more I realised it wasn't even really my own vanity or even my fault that I felt this way, it's honestly the way Western society treats women as they age.

Men, if they are ageing and single, become bachelors. Women, well, they're spinsters.

Men who are greying are considered out of this world sexy, while women with grey hair are shamed, often publicly. I vividly remember flipping through magazines (yes, remember those) as a teen and seeing an entire spread of celebrities who were snapped with their grey roots showing.

Grey hair was the entire premise of that part of the magazine and it was presented as a problem. A big one.

So, as you can imagine the older i've gotten, the more scared of ageing I have become - and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Twitter user Renatanover from Moscow recently started a thread and invited people to post photos to help prove that they can look fab, young, and gorgeous even after they turn 40.

The thread has gone viral and we have compiled some of our favourite photos that show age is merely a number.

"I'm 53. I don't live with anyone, my son has grown up, loved by my side, my heart is alive, and my head is my own. Freedom!"

"Okay, I'll join the club too... 48 in a month."

"That's my mom. The photo was taken a year or two ago. She is 42 at the moment, we were once called sisters."

"I'm 40."

"My dear mother who is 54. I am proud of her and dream of looking just as lovely after fifty."

"My most beloved woman, 40."

"I don't think I look super super. Normal at my 55."

"Mother, 53 years old."

"In this photo, my mom is 53, and this is how I want to look without fillers at this age."

"Me and my grandmother a couple of years ago. She is already over 55, but they still take her for my mom."

"My mother (right) is 53 and this is the original photo without corrections."

"42."

"I'm 40 years old, 4 sons. I haven't visited a beautician yet."

"My mom, 48."

"My mom is 47! And she is just incredibly beautiful!"

"I'm 44."

"My incredible mom is 39 years old, but still."

"Mom is 52 years old. A few years ago, she cut her hair short and stopped dyeing her gray hair. A month ago, my hands returned to the paint anyway, and now, here she is."

"Mom, 49. Gorgeous madam."

"My mother is 43 and they always think that we are not a daughter and mother, but sisters."

"Mom turns 57, still pretty."

"My mom, 46 years old, I admire and dream at her age to look as young."

"Mom, 40, looks younger than me."

"My mom doesn't like when I show her pictures without asking, but I can show my aunt, her older sister. She's very fit, so I don't think she'll mind, she's on all the posters herself in these pictures. She's probably 45-46. She's super cool and very pretty!"

"I'm 45."

"Very good thread, all so wonderful! Also decided to join in—my beloved mommy, 45 years old."

"My sister, 40 years old."

"Didn't clarify, I'm almost 46."

"I'm 42, dyed my hair for the first time this year."

"My mom is still 37, but I couldn't help but share."

Ariana