The fashion and advertising industries glorify youth – with exceptions: Charlotte Rampling, 77, on the Ami catwalk a year ago.
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Many women don't like to talk about their age. There is often more than just vanity behind it – for example the fear of not getting a job. Should we basically stop mentioning age?
WHow old are you? 20, 40 or even 60 years? Do you talk about it openly? Brave! The banal question about the age of the other person still often triggers a piqued silence. A surprising number of women keep their age a secret, as if it were a hidden illness – at least when it comes to work. The reaction is reminiscent of film divas of the 20th century, who flirtatiously and angrily kept their age secret, or of Karl Lagerfeld, whose death it was not exactly known whether he was actually 85 years old.
“I don't say my age at work because I'm afraid I won't get a good position somewhere else when I'm in my late 40s,” a journalist friend who works at a public broadcaster recently explained. She is multilingual and travels around the world for work. She looks fantastic, is athletic and healthy, her daughter is out of the house. Nobody would guess that she has a problem with her age. In addition, she doesn't work in front of the camera, but behind it.
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