Candice Bergen | 08/03/2009 9:45 am
Candice Bergen, AARP Cover Girl, Speaks Out
In response to: Will you take – or are you already taking – advantage of the benefits of being a senior?
Geezerdom. I got such shit for appearing on the cover of AARP ten years ago. My husband asks for senior tickets at the movies. I stand as far away as possible. I’ve always been open about my age, which is 63, but I see no need to trumpet.
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I always wondered why women lied about their age; then I started doing it. The only thing is, I lie in reverse. I tell people that I’m 10 years older than I really am. I decided that I would rather have people tell me how good I look for my age. If I took years off my age, they might think, "God, she looks like Hell."
Candice,
Why did you get shit for being on the cover of AARP? Who had a problem with it? I actually remember the cover and loved the story. I’m always happy to see you on or in anything!
Candice, I am loving my geezerdom…Stopped coloring my hair and in stead got a great haircut for my lovely gray hair. Everybody tells me my gray has grown in perfectly. Unlike most of my friends, I wanted to see what my gray hair looked like and I liked it. Now I so love not getting color in my hair. I ask for senior price at the movies and have no problem…what I won’t do is go to the movies at 4pm on the weekends. My girlfriend and I are crazed movie buffs and we will try to make a movie a weekend and go to dinner. Once when I was leaving for Europe the next day we decided to go to an earlier movie so that I would get home and to bed early. My gosh, I have never seen so many geezers in one place. It depressed the hell out of both of us. We are both from major cities moved to be near grandchildren. We were also very successful career women and we still dress the part…showing up at your local movie at 4 pm is a scary proposition. Women our age looking 20-30 years older…having totally given up life as vibrant interesting women.
My and friend and I agreed we would not do that again. I love being older, as long as I can continue looking like me only older…I am fine!
I must say when I open my AARP magazine and it lists the celebrities ages, I am often surprised who is older than I am, when all along, I had assumed I was older.
Candice,
Whatever happened to age is not an issue-it’s a number ?