Joanna Lumley has disclosed her secret to looking so good at 77 – avoid cosmetic surgery ‘tweakments’ and try to avoid getting massively fat.
Dame Joanna, who swears by a £9.99 moisturiser, says attempting to turn back the clock by going under the knife is pointless for an older woman.
‘Tweakments are not the answer,’ she insists.
‘The truth is, it doesn’t matter what you do for yourself because you are old, so there’s no point in trying.
Joanna Lumley has disclosed her secret to looking so good at 77 – avoid cosmetic surgery ‘tweakments’ and try to avoid getting massively fat
‘Do what you can and be grateful for it. Try to look nice, try not to get massively fat – and I know people think that’s the wrong thing to say, but it’s not good for your health and it shows disrespect for your body.’
She won two Baftas portraying louche, Bolly-swigging socialite Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous from 1992 to 2012 – but says the BBC sitcom couldn’t be written in the same way today.
‘The world has changed so much since then,’ she reveals. ‘The wicked things Edina [Jennifer Saunders] could say about people and the ghastly behaviour of Patsy – you wouldn’t be allowed to do it now.’
Lumley won two Baftas portraying louche, Bolly-swigging socialite Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous from 1992 to 2012 – but says the BBC sitcom couldn’t be written in the same way today
Absolutely fabulous: The veteran actress advises, ‘try to look nice, try not to get massively fat – and I know people think that’s the wrong thing to say, but it’s not good for your health and it shows disrespect for your body.’
She adds that ‘we’ve got to be careful’ about political correctness.
‘I think we’ve got a little bit extreme,’ she tells the Telegraph magazine.
‘There’s no point in acting if you’ve just got to cast the person who really is a bereaved mother of 15. You’ll be hunting to find that exact person – and then it’s not acting.’
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