I love Twinkle Khanna’s way with words and recently she wrote a heartfelt column about the anxiety she felt at the thought of turning 50. She strongly feels, “it is tougher for women to age because of the value placed on our appearance.”
All ready to usher in her birthday on the 29th of December, she confesses her bubble popped as soon as a recent blood test report stated that her testosterone plummeted to zero. The side effects of this are lethargy and a lack of aggression. The news hit her harder than seeing the grey hair in her eyebrows.
Elaborating on the ‘age’ factor, she further states, “Like the Bluethroat birds who migrate from Alaska to Rajasthan in winter, it really starts going all south after a certain age. Hair shifts from your head and appears on your chin. The fat from the cheeks sinks to form squishy jowls. Breasts start reaching out to embrace your knees.”
Talking further, she writes, “I decided to list some advantages of ageing. I started with the fact that I was not freezing in the London winter because my hot flashes seemed more efficient than any Marks and Spencer thermal vest. Crossing middle age also meant I was the past the stage where you tend to know a little about everything but not enough about anything, including yourself. It is also a time when you have given up worrying about love, are yet to worry about health and even work has stopped giving you sleepless nights.”
Oh Twinkle! You are definitely closing to 50 shades smarter- time for gin and just bear it all babumoshai, with that dazzling smile of yours!
