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Wrinkles won't stop 96-year-old from modeling
(Aencies)
Updated: 2005-01-05 10:23 It's never too late to start a new career,
even if you're 96 years old — and the new job is modeling cosmetics.
Irene Sinclair,96
years old, appears in the advert dressed in an off-the-shoulder top
and silk headscarf next to tick boxes marked "wrinkled?" and "wonderful?"
[AP] |
Irene Sinclair, a Guyana-born pensioner
living in London, is appearing on billboards around Britain this month, wrinkles
and all, to help sell Dove, a popular brand of facial cream.
"I've never felt beautiful in my life, but I feel I am now," said Sinclair,
quoted in the Daily Mirror newspaper Tuesday. "It's all about growing old
gracefull.
"I don't stay indoors," she said. "I try and get fresh air as much as I can
by going for walks."
Sinclair is the latest of a number of women — including a half-dozen with
"real curves" — which Dove, a Unilever brand, is using to promote itself among
women put off by the idea that beauty is defined by tall skinny supermodels.
Last year a survey for Dove, conducted among 3,200 women
in 10 countries, found that 31 percent thought they looked "natural" and 29
percent "average" — compared to 2 percent who replied "beautiful."
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