Are You One Of The 40,000,000 Invisible Women In Our Society?
It’s a sad but true fact that so many women over forty feel invisible. Changing this has become my passion.
One of the things that inspired me to do what I now do, after having had an executive position with a telecom giant, was an experience I had one day following one of my seminars.
An attractive, well dressed woman came up to me and told me that the thing she hated most about becoming older was that she felt invisible. She explained how, everywhere you look, you see woman in their twenties and thirties being presented as role models for beauty and style. Rarely do you see mature women in TV and print ads and some of the fashion magazines feature teenagers as models. There’s only one magazine devoted entirely to the mature woman – More Magazine.
Just because we’re getting older doesn’t mean we have to become an invisible part of society. It doesn’t mean we we have to let ourselves go, gain weight and start looking frumpy. My late aunt Josie, while in her eighties, looked like she just stepped off the cover of Vogue whenever she went out.
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