All of the photos in this post show Jerry Hall, 58, within the past month. Her fashion is questionable, but she looks fantastic. Looking over our archives, I noticed how Jerry talks a lot about her miraculous ability to remain young looking. She raves about smoking, drinking, and sun worship. At the same time, she describes plastic surgery addicts as “monsters” and “lunatics.” I appreciate how Jerry is speaking out against cosmetic enhancement, but something lacks in her delivery.
Remember how I gushed over how Frances McDormand’s tour against plastic plastic surgery? She called it “erasing the roadmap of life.” This was a relatable take, as Frances said she embraced her own wrinkles. Frances was often surprised to see her face in the mirror, but she recognized the value of her laugh lines. Frances admitted how she isn’t perfect, and she’s very cool with it. Whereas Jerry is humblebragging about how she’s naturally gorgeous and immune to aging. These approaches differ. Here’s Jerry’s latest bit of wisdom from Hello! magazine:
Jerry’s perfection: “My face and body have been a tool for my career and I’m very conscious of that aspect, and try and keep it the best I can.”
Her opinion on plastic surgery: “It’s so idiotic when they risk their lives to have surgery. Every time you have anesthesia, you’re killing a lot of brain cells — why would you do that? You could get infections, you could die. Why make yourself look a grotesque caricature of yourself? They don’t fool anyone. They look like pathetic, insecure creatures. I loathe the whole thing.”
She especially criticizes civilians: “I don’t mean to be critical, and I understand that actresses feel the pressure in Hollywood, they have to do it. I respect that and I feel sorry for them that they have to do it. But for normal women to do it? If men want to leave their wife for a 19-year-old, they’re gonna do it anyway. All the facelifts and botox in the world isn’t going to change that guy, you know?”
She’ll spend Christmas with Mick Jagger: “I genuinely like him — he’s funny, he’s clever, he tries his best and he is also a great father. I think I chose really well – my children are smart, beautiful and talented, so I feel no regrets. But he’s not the sort of person I want to spend my old age with. Life changes, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. Why shouldn’t life change? Move on.”
[From Hello!]
Like I said, Jerry’s take feels different than Frances McDormand’s dignified opinion. Frances feels like women should embrace their histories and not try to erase them. Jerry acts like everyone should be vampire-esque and never age at all, naturally. By the way, Jerry says the only things she does for weight maintenance are yoga and light swimming. Oh, and she avoids bread. So … has Jerry simply lucked out in the aging department? She does have a point about trying to stay young for men. If a dude is going to cheat, he won’t be dissuaded when his wife or girlfriend gets Botox. Perhaps Jerry’s projecting onto Mick. They are spending Christmas together.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
She should move on from that hair color.
Yea. There comes a point where you should start aging naturally. Dyed hair on older women always bugged me because it looks like it doesn’t belong. Much like an unnatural nose job or botox. It throws ff the natural image.
I liked dyed hair on older women when it’s OBVIOUS that it’s not their real hair color. My (drunk) grandma used to dye her hair like a fuschia red color, and it was AWESOME. Now she doesn’t care and just let it go grey.
I agree, but grey hair can look harsh and it always ages a person. I think the key is not going for the full-on saturated hair colour, if you can get something less extreme to take. My grandmother has had a wrinkled face since she was very young, but her hair never really went grey, it just faded, like it lost pigment but didn’t totally turn. Even with the wrinkles people think she’s my mother because of her hair which is a natural light brown, and she’s in her late 80s.
Meh, I’ve never ever liked Jerry Hall’s looks or style but it’s very cool that she’s putting happiness and self-acceptance before self-hatred and cosmetic surgeries. Go, Jerry.
rah-rah! We all age, and it’s nice to feel as though you do not need to reject yourself, as that happens. Aging is weird…it’s like the long stretch before death: I guess it’s time for the bucket list.
Long stretch before death? Get a grip, there is no reason life after 40 can’t be as much fun or more than the first forty. Some aspects of aging suck, of course, but people piss and moan about it instead of just enjoying life. We’re so lucky if we get to age, it damn well beats the alternative, and every year should be celebrated and enjoyed. Aging is inevitable, how you deal with it is within your control. What’s so great about youth anyway, firm skin? There is more to life than obsessing over wrinkles and grey hair.
I don’t get it when woman think 40 is a death sentence.I loved turning 40 and I loved turning 50.I Just don’t like my eye’s going weak but basically I still feel the same as I did in my twenties.
I’m sort of glad someone is talking about the ugly side to it. Infections, etc.
+1
There is no guarantee you will wake up from an anaesthetic, which you would think would be enough to stop people going for unnecessary procedures.
Anytime you break the skin there is a risk of infection, and that includes fillers and Botox. And have you READ the risks and potential side effects of Botox? Holy frozen face Batman!
I was flipping through some Cosmo-esque rag at the gym and came across a Botox ad. Two full pages of info on the effects and side effects. People use this stuff like it’s Oil of Olay, but it’s definitely dangerous. Unless it was medically necessary (for migraines or something) I would never use it. Risk of swallowing problems, breathing problems, severe allergic reations … thanks, I’ll keep my wrinkles.
I do love her, even though she’s perhaps a little out of touch with more commonplace concerns about ageing.
But I believe her re having had no work done at all…..some just have the genes. (Actually it pisses me off that every woman who does not look exactly her age (by some mysterious rule) is, according to many here, a de facto nip/tucker. Assiduous skincare for over 40 years is avery good preventative strategy against ageng according to others’ schedules. And she has Lizzy and Georgia May to think about, whose young pals are already being advised to embark on invasive skincare. Grrrrr.
I do hope people don’t take offence at her remarks, because hand on heart I don’t think she’s bring proscriptive so much as impassioned, and speaking really about why she is permitting the odd line to be discerned in her own face, while others wouldn’t dream of it.
Saw a pic only yesterday of her at 17, when we first became aware of her in England.
Ye gods, she must be semi-divine, and she’s such a good egg now. She has her distinctive style…..cutting that hair was a giant step!
• (excuse ridic biased raving…..no coffee in the house to put me straight)
I also like what she says. She does have a point and she looks great.
It is true that genetics and behavior contribute a lot to the way we age and she seems to be lucky in that department. I think that embracing aging also helps.
My mum is more than 50 and she has a perfect skin! I had a bunch of friends asking me if she is my sister (they know I have an older sister and they always tend to think that my mum is her) 🙂
And she didn’t have a privileged life or spent lots of money in beauty creams and so on. She doesn’t smoke and she always washed her face before going to bed…and she has awesome gens (unfortunately I didn’t get those skin gens myself). That definitely helps!
Oh, you know, she might be a twit but she’s a fabulous twit, isn’t she?
She was on Strictly Come Dancing a few years back – I do have an excuse for watching this. It’s a quid pro quo for babysitting duties. Eat dinner and watch Strictly with parents, then get to go out and leave Sixlets overnight – and she was hilarious, just wafting about being majestic and a legend in her own mind.
I’m 58 like Jerry, and ever since seeing her in Cosmo in ’73, talking confidently about slathering Hellman’s mayo on her supernatural hair as an overnight treatment, I’ve dug her attitude. (Marrying Stones can be good for a gal too….Patti Hansen looks fantastic!)
• By god though, in her 70s modelling heyday Jerry was incomparable, imo. So to me she really IS a legend or icon.
Gawd the perm I had, to copy her Botticelli waves……quel horreur. The trips to Biba in South Ken, for their incredibly oily makeup and brown lipstick! (Another error was dressing in anti-erectile Laura Ashley maxi-length milkmaid outfits, rather than skin tight disco threads….but otherwise, oh I was a Jerry wannabe!)
Jerry doesn’t look young, she just looks great, and that’s the diff between her and, say, Madge, who fights tooth and claw against anno domini.
• I also love Mick, forever, past bad behaviour here and there notwithstanding, so I am always cheered by the close friendship these two maintain.
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Chris was a Biba babe! My favourite comment of the day! (I wore dummies on a ribbon around my neck and dungarees to acid house raves, so I’m one to talk).
Cool Sixer! You groover.
Yeah, my pals & I, at school in Oxfordshire, an hour’s train journey to London, used to regularly skive orf and hit S. Ken, which also had a good Laura Ashley (veh hard to convince anyone now, that L Ash used to be quite culty, and hippie. None of the faux-Jane Austen look at all, just shedloads of inexpensive cotton maxis and smocks.)
• Meeting old boyfriends from that time, to a man they bemoaned the way we all dressed…..they’d have preferred satin hotpants and halternecks, but as far as we were concerned, we were Pre-Raphaelites via Thomas Hardy (but with very anachronistic makeup/barely discernible overplucked eyebrows, and vertiginous platform shoes)
• But Biba man, that was so much more than a shop. Nearest hint re the look of the place is Dolores Umbridge’s office at the Min of Mag…….all dark enamels, cod-Egyptian tinkerings, tail end of Deco etc….plus leopardskin. Like the ‘Way In’ atop Harrods in the 60s, it felt like an alternative world. There were sofas all over the place, not to mention smoking and cocktails, for a start, and that was never the USP of C&A now was it??
• Hey ho, what larks!
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C&A – there’s a blast from the past. I’m a West London girl, so my journey was Central Line to Notting Hill Gate, then a saunter down Kensington Church Street to Ken Market for the t-shirts and tattoos!
Jerry is a very rich woman who has, for 30-plus years, employed an entire staff to cook and clean for her, help raise her kids, and manage her schedule. I think those things play a big part in how a woman ages. She doesn’t believe in plastic surgery? More power to her. But don’t sit in your privileged ivory tower and tell other women, for whom the stresses of life haven’t been quite so cushioned, that they’re stupid for doing it.
Very true. I’m not jealous of her wealth, or anything else, but if you have that much time for yourself, plus the money, you actually SHOULD look like this. I don’t dislike her, but I would admire any ‘average’ woman much more for trying to MAKE time, and put some effort into looking the best she can. THAT’S the real challenge!
Yes, Jerry is a very rich woman but she still ages naturally and I admire that. All these LA faces are scary and actually very boring as they all look the same. Where I don´t agree with her is why actresses should be “excused” from her loathing. As people look up to them, their faces and bodies are used to sell all kinds of products. They should be selling natural beauty, not some Barbie/Bratz Doll image. Francis McDormand is more accessible and therefor relatable, but Jerry was a supermodel! Of course she got the genes to prove it, her whole career is based on her looks.
Jerry has a lifestyle that helps her greatly. I wonder how worse she would look if she had a day to day more like what the average woman has.
And she bugs me. Her treatments aren’t invasive like cosmetic surgery, but she has procedures. Expensive treatments of all sorts. My favorite is the oxygen mask after an activated charcoal treatment. That works wonders!
She preaches a good lesson though. She just shouldn’t act like she’s aging naturally.
I agree! Luxury and money can make a big difference compared to women who struggle raising kids on their own or people who wonder how they will pay all their bills that month. My husband and I went away for a week to a luxury (for us) resort (first time away in 24 years) and when we got home our kids both said: Wow, you guys look so young!! Yeah, stress-free week of luxury, not having to lift a finger and not having to worry about all the stuff that needs doing around the house will do that to you. So I can imagine that years of it helps (and yeah, I know everyone has stress and she and Mick have had some relationship-wise, but not having to worry about money or all the daily grind stuff really does ease a lot). Plus I’d like to see a close up pic of her not smiling. I look much more lined when I am not smiling because my smile lines around my mouth are the ones that are the most deep, but you don’t notice those when I’m smiling. Still, she looks fabulous and she clearly takes care about how she looks because you can be rich and still look like crap. Plus she obviously has great genes, which is just the luck of the draw.
I love you all. This from a working class gal who has had a few (lots and lots) of subtle tweaks because I just got really tired looking. ie bags around the eyes tweaked, neck, etc. I look natural, you’d never know, but 24 years as an RN, nights, weekends and holidays, and on my feet does take it’s toll. When I look a little “fresh and rested” it does wonders for my morale and I can go back to taking care of other people.
I don’t have much money but I know several people who do and guess what, their lives are just as stressful and unhappy as your average person. Money doesn’t buy happiness or guarantee a stress free life. Maybe Jerry has had one, I don’t know, but more money brings more problems not less and although the grass looks greener where the wealthy live, they’re no happier or “stress free” than any of us.
I’ve always found her personality entertaining and it’s great she can maintain such a positive relationship with her ex. I did smirk a bit at the phrase “he tries his best” …. To keep it in his pants I guess? She sure had to out up with a lot during their years together.
Personally, I still would not have left my fiancé Bryan Ferry for Mick. I noticed she recently enthused about Bryan and how beautifully he has aged. Can’t say the same for Mick. Bryan remains a classic style icon,
I love her attitude toward relationships. It’s one of non- attachment to the outcome. I have
recently more or less achieved some of this equanimity, & it feels great! Also, I’ll necer forget a live interview she did on Today, at the time when she divorced Mick. She said she kept throwing him out, but he kept coming back. As an example she said she’d gone away for a vacation, and when she came home, he ‘d knocked the wall down between their adjoining apartments. It was all said with her Texas drawl & that dry wit. I’m sure she has her moments of emotionality, but it seems she doesn’t let the tough times overtake her enjoyment of life, itself.
I would have left Ferry just for his shitty political views.
I adore her. She will always be a good ‘ole Texas girl!
Apparently ragging on other women for having plastic surgery while you’re immune to it is the new humble brag? Great for her if she hasn’t but it’s easy to feel that way when you’ve aged really well. If someone wants to do a little maintenance, fine. Good for them. If they want to go all out, well it might not be the best choice but it’s their business.
As for killing brain cells, I’m sure she killed more than that in the 70s.
I agree! I like Jerry, but a lot of it is luck in her genes. I mean, I hate people who have had so much plastic surgery that they look like they are wearing strange masks, but some have had bits done and still look like themselves like Christie Brinkley. Isn’t she around the same age or older? Clearly again, she takes great care of herself and has pretty good genes, but if you have the money and do it right, you can look okay. I’m not an advocate for plastic surgery, but I have to admit that if I had the money I might tweak a few things.
Humble Brag. That’s a perfect way to describe this.
I liked her a lot, but she’s walking a fine line here.
And some folks regular and otherwise get plastic surgery for reasons other than aging. To each their own. And your husband leaving you for a 19 year old? She would know a little something about that.
You also kill a lot of brain cells when you drink. Smoking does nothing for the cells in your lungs. The sun is horrible for skin cells. I applaud Jerry’s stance on embracing your age without plastic surgery, but her complaint that the anaesthesia used for surgery kills brain cells rings a bit hollow from someone who admittedly drinks, smokes, and tans.
I don’t get why botox and fillers are put into the same category as plastic surgery. They aren’t a permanent change to your face. When overdone, yes, they look bad, but they’re just not the same.
Jerry looks 58 years old. She’s still a beautiful woman, but she looks 58.
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Francis McDormand is one of my heroes!!
I believe that she hasn’t done anything invasive. She looks great and clearly has great genes, but she looks her age. I interpreted her comments as being specifically focused at people who have plastic surgery to try to look younger, as opposed to changing some physical feature they’ve always disliked. I agree with her. I liked her comments about Mick too, she seems refreshingly self aware.
She sounds surprisingly smart and well-balanced.
I have no doubt that Mick Jagger is a better as a pal than as a husband. (I was going to add something super celebitchy there, but I’ll skip it.)