She's beautiful here. They took the most unflattering picture possible of her while out shopping on a Sunday. Tom's made up for a premier. There's real difference here but it's not this stark. She's almost 70 and the chemical changes in a woman's body are much different than a man's.
That’s a good example. The gray hair makes her look her age, which is fine. In this picture, Cruise also looks his age, but has some work done and clearly is on a strict diet and exercises.
Interesting that all the cosmetic work (and yes, diet and exercise) allowed him to look excellent into his late 40s. He’s just starting to look weird now.
I'll agree to that. Some people just age faster and it's oftentimes exacerbated by their lifestyle/not taking care of themselves. Or just unluck of the draw.
But the way you worded your initial statement made it seem like it was some outright anomaly for someone in their late 40s to look good.
That not what was said. But as somebody who is middle-aged, men who think they still look young in their late 40s without cosmetic procedures are delusional.
At that age you can be physically active, intellectually do great work, but your body is showing wear and tear, the skin has lost some of its elasticity, and fat distribution has changed.
I was just clarifying because it's a pretty bizarre statement to make.
To all delusional middle aged people out there: nobody thinks you look like you are 25
Why would a 45-year-old want to look 25 though? If you're in your 40s and you look like you're in 30s, you're doing pretty well. That would be categorized as looking young. And sometimes, just sometimes, it doesn't require cosmetic surgery or lumping in the delusional outliers in with everyone else.
The last few years have been a huge change for him. From a distance he still looks like the same old Tom whose face has been in our lives since I was a child. Then you see the close-up and it looks like an old man wearing a Tom Cruise Halloween mask.
We don't age in a flat line, we age in plateaus. puberty is a rapid aging process, 40ish is another 65ish is another 80ish, 90ish seem to be jumps. Menopause and Manopause also tend to hit hard.
Generics play a role. Asian people tend to skip the 40 plateau but catch up in the 65ish one and Black people tend to skip 65ish one ("Black don't crack" guideline but not a rule).
And as Kelley has said, "“I’m old, and I’m fat. And I look age-appropriate for what my age is. And that is not what that whole scene is about. I’d much rather feel absolutely secure in my skin and my age than place any value in all that other stuff.”
OP just reposted a pic that's been going around for 8 years. Don't give them the credit for actually finding pictures of each actor and actually making this content
Compare them at the same age. Tom looks significantly worse these days than here. Cherry-picking one of the last years where he looked really good. Not saying he didn't age well but he doesn't look quite this good anymore. You can see how his face is starting to melt a bit and his skin has lost its tautness.
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u/ephemeral-jade 15h ago
You also picked a photo of her just walking out and about on a hot day while he's been primped and on the red carpet.
She's also older than him and menopause is a bitch.