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Women reveal what they really think about their own and celebrities’ bodies, in new survey from www.allaboutyou.com
National treasure Helen Mirren has topped a poll of women growing old beautifully with Judi Dench and Honor Blackman close behind in second and third place. The results are revealed in a new body image survey by lifestyle website www.allaboutyou.com[1], which questioned over 700 women aged between 35 and 65.
Celebrities voted as looking great for their age, and those that don't...
Celebrities that look great for their age
| Percentage of respondents who believed this | Celebrities that haven't aged well | Percentage of respondents who believed this |
Helen Mirren | 81% | Donatella Versace | 61% |
Judi Dench | 79% | Madonna | 51% |
Honor Blackman | 63% | Brigitte Nielsen | 50% |
Meryl Streep | 50% | Melanie Griffith | 44% |
Susan Sarandon | 44% | Janice Dickinson | 38% |
Jane Seymour | 39% | Sharon Osbourne | 36% |
Sue Barker | 38% | Dolly Parton | 31% |
Gloria Hunniford | 37% | Goldie Hawn | 23% |
Fern Britton | 33% | Ruby Wax | 22% |
Michelle Pfeiffer | 29% | Judy Finnegan | 18% |
Kim Cattrall | 19% | Jerry Hall | 18% |
In the survey, celebrities are blamed for 1 in 4 of the female respondents (28%) feeling pressurised to have cosmetic procedures, as the celebrities have had, to make them look younger. Having said that, an overwhelming number of women (86%) think they are aging better than their mothers' generation of women. In addition, 8 out of 10 (79%) actually feel they look younger than their age and over a quarter (27%) will be wearing a bikini on the beach this summer.
In terms of what parts of their body they love best, 1 in 3 women (36%) feel their most attractive feature is their eyes, followed by their breasts and then their legs. Women are most likely to be dissatisfied with their tummies, with just 1.7% of those interviewed claiming their tummy as their favourite body part:
What is your favourite part of your body? | Percentage of respondents |
Eyes | 36.2 |
Breasts | 13.4 |
Legs | 12.0 |
Lips | 7.6 |
Waist | 7.5 |
Bottom | 6.6 |
Cheekbones | 3.0 |
Arms | 2.4 |
Tummy | 1.7 |
Surprisingly, when they're feeling depressed about their bodies and want to feel good about themselves, as well as look good, women are more likely to go for a hair cut or go shopping than spend time with their friends. Near the bottom of the list is spending time with their partners - with just 1 in 5 (20%) women doing this to make them feel better about themselves.
What do you do to feel good about yourself, as well as look good? | Percentage of respondents |
Eating healthy food | 67 |
Regular hair cuts | 61 |
Buying new clothes | 43 |
Spending time with friends | 42 |
Going on holiday | 32 |
Going to the gym | 22 |
Regular dates with your partner | 20 |
Regular pampering sessions e.g. Facials and massages | 17 |
Expensive skincare products | 14 |
Bernadette Fallon, Editor of www.allaboutyou.com says, "It's clear that no matter what your age, media interest in celebrities' looks inevitably impacts on our own self esteem and the way in which we view our bodies. Fortunately, many of www.allaboutyou.com's readers have grown happier in their skin as they age. They take far better care of their bodies than the generation before them and are learning to love their bodies - faults and all!"
For women looking for health, beauty and well-being advice and inspirition, www.allaboutyou.com is the site to visit. Readers can keep up with the latest news and views on body image, looking good and have their say in ww.allaboutyou.com's buzzing community of like-minded women.
Notes to Editors:
About allaboutyou.com
allaboutyou.com launched in May 2008, as the first women's lifestyle website for women aged between 35-60. Offering expert advice, recipes, ideas for home and family, culinary and creative inspiration. As the partner website to Good Housekeeping, Prima, SHE, Country Living, Coast and House Beautiful magazines, allaboutyou.com offers users their favourite magazines at their fingertips. It is ideas-driven and problem solving, as well as vibrant and honest through the input of its community of like-minded women.
About The Hearst digital Network
The Hearst digital Network, a division of the National Magazine Company', publishes the following websites: http://www.handbag.com/_, http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/_, http://www.getlippy.com/_, http://www.allaboutyou.com/_, http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/_
About the National Magazine Company
The National Magazine Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst established by William Randolph Hearst in 1910.
The business comprises the core wholly owned business, also called the National Magazine Co and interests in two joint ventures. These are partnerships with some of the world's best publishers as follows:
NatMag Rodale:
A 50:50 joint venture with Rodale Inc. of the USA which focuses on health and wellbeing.
COMAG:
A 65:35 joint venture with Conde Nast, one of the UK's largest magazine distributors.
NatMag publishes 14 consumer titles in the UK: Coast, Company, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan Bride, Country Living, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, Prima, Prima Baby, SHE, You & Your Wedding, and Zest. The group publishes three large scale weeklies, Best, Reveal and Real People and also publishes a further two magazines, Men's Health and Runner's World, through NatMag Rodale.
NatMag division, Hearst Digital Network, publishes a number of community websites for NatMag magazines and also includes the Handbag network and http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/, the UK's leading consumer health site.
For more information please log on to www.natmags.co.uk
[1] allaboutyou.com is the partner website for Good Housekeeping, Prima, SHE, Country Living, Coast and House Beautiful magazines
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