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40+Forty plus
from 2010-01 Sydney (1)
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NIMA MENON shares her experience of being a confident, empowered achiever at the exciting age of two-score and more
Now that I am 40+, I would prefer looking at myself as a person who is 18 with more than 22 years’ experience. Women get flirty at 30 and men get naughty at 40, but what happens to women when they are at 40?
If anything a 40-year-old woman is no longer considered “mature, middle-aged or older”. She is classy, sassy, stylish, a woman of the world, who wants to look her best, feel her best and live her best in an empowered way. Gone are those past days of mother and grandmother, today’s woman of 40 doesn’t even look her age, for she doesn’t even feel forty. She has gone through the throes of life; she is experienced, but not embittered. She is ready to take on the world and carve a niche for herself. Life is more of a challenge filled with fun, less a cumbersome endurance. Go into shopping malls and you’ll no longer find them moving to sober colours because they are older, they are not threatened by brighter colours for they no longer care what the world thinks of them. What matters is what they think of themselves and what they want for themselves. They have a gym/fitness centre membership and it is no more “Oh! I am old, I cannot exercise. I’ll just go for a stroll every evening.” My mother thought that way, but I don’t.

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Gone are those past days of mother and grandmother, today’s woman of 40 doesn’t even look her age, for she doesn’t even feel forty
I married early in life and that was one plus. You reach your peak income when you are forty plus, and this financial power pumps up your air of confidence.
Moving into the 40s is all about aging
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Forty plus role models from Bollywood: (from left) Juhi Chawla, Rekha, Madhuri Dixit and top, Hema Malini



Keaton, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Demi Moore, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Julianne Moore or our own Rekha or Dimple. These are women who are forty plus and even today are more gorgeous, sexy and beautiful than all those twenty or thirty plus women out there. And as I have turned forty plus, I bask in the fact that I look and feel like I have the whole world at my feet and it is my life to live the way I please. Though that may sound like the words of a rebel, I am not one for I am wise enough to know my limitations, the norms of society and how to work well within the parameters I and only I have created for myself. There is no need to throw caution to the winds to do as you please; in fact you are smarter when you do as you please and still have the people who matter on your side. That’s what it is to be forty plus – clever, cheeky, classy and charismatic! Welcome to my world………
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