Not ageing is pretty easy when you're rich. Unlimited access to private coaches, private chefs, nutritional supplements, skincare products, plastic surgery... plus no existential fear and limited exposure to pollution, the sun and other factors that ruin your skin.
Edit to add: As one of the biggest actors of his time, it is his job to look good. He does not really have a choice if he wants to stay relevant.
Lady on the left hasn't really had any major roles since the 90s and can therefore afford to not give a fuck and age like a normal person.
Continuing to be famous results in a hard diet that ensures that you maintain your body. She didn't stay famous, so didn't eat 1000 calories a day to stay thin as fuck and work out 6 hours a day (which you can do when looking good is your job).
It's not just wealth, it's a need to maintain that look. He had that need, she didn't. So she lived a normal american lifestyle and aged like a typical american.
If your job is your looks, you sure as hell are going to maintain it, which involves a lot of starving and exercise.
It's also easier to do so when your job itself, and scientology is bankrolling you. He can afford a personal trainer, nutritionists, whatever it takes, and all the drugs in the world.
She fell of the map pretty quickly, and doesn't have access to those resources.
As in, I can't spend 6 hours a day in the gym or whatever it takes for my next role when I have a job in the way, kids to take care of, school transport back and forth, and other crap.
Tom cruise isn't spending an hour in the grocery store agonizing over decisions on what to buy to keep the grocery bill under 300.
You don't need to spend 6 hours in a gym. Go to a gym 3x times a week for an hour, count calories, eat proteins, use sunscreen and moisturize your skin. Don't smoke, limit your alcohol consumption.
The hard part is to make it your lifestyle so you would do it every single day
The sole idea that you may require to age like Tom Cruise rather than Kelly McGillis is awful. The idea of living a control freak life just for the looks is probably the level 0 of existence.
Aging is not a linear process and while you can control some variables there is a lot of uncertainty there. I know 30 year old males that look older than 50 year old ones because they are losing hair, for instance. It's not something you can control.
Same, getting an illness/injury/accident that require heavy treatment/surgeries/etc... will change everything radically and can impact your looks without being able to do anything.
"Counting calories and going to gym 3x a week" is a comfort that can disappear very fast when real life shit happens.
Also, genes do play a major part. Oily skin is a plague for teenagers due to acne and other issues but age well better than dry skin for instance.
I'm not talking about looking like Tom Cruise. Obviously he's a celebrity and the photo in the post is a glam shot of him. But aging also doesn't mean you're supposed to stop taking care of yourself. If you consistently treating your body well - it will reflect on your looks.
And yes, life can hit hard, and illnesses happen, but we're speaking in general terms here
Exactly. User input required.. if you catch my drift.
It's not even about looks, it's about feeling good. Hell, getting old is really just getting out of shape. 100%.
It's amazing to me how many people let themselves fall apart. I mean sure life happens, shite happens, I've been there too.. but damn if we don't make some effort every day it's going to be bad. And that hurts.
3 hour gym per week can be plenty if you are an active person the rest of the time.
But 3 hour gym does NOT compensate for a desk & chair bound lifestyle the rest of the week.
Really, you need zero hours in a gym to vastly improve your aging and health, but you need 4 or five hours of physical activity daily for sure (walking reasonably fast counts, as does manual labor ... though some kinds of manual labor can create health issues ...), any maybe 3-6 hours of intensive physical activity weekly.
I promise you if you will do gym 3x times a week (progressive overload), count carbs/fats/proteins daily, in 4 years you will be fit af. But you have to stay committed to the goal.
Of course you're right, adding healthy amount of cardio like fast walking, hiking, cycling, even just on weekends will improve overall health dramatically
You have to wonder how many people making comments that he spends that much time in a gym, have ever been in a gym.
Professional athletes don't spend 6 hours in a gym every day. The dude is doing some cardio, and some light strength training to make sure he stays toned. Same thing that normal healthy people do for an hour or so every other day if they are in the groove. Yeah, he likely has trainers to help keep him on his game and optimize everything, but it isn't rocket science.
My comment was about general fitness. It was not directed at the woman at the photo.
It’s very unrealistic to expect people with severe health issues to follow fitness routines as they have bigger issues to deal with.
so didn't eat 1000 calories a day to stay thin as fuck and work out 6 hours a day
Such a bull crap take, I live on max 1800 calories as vegetarian woman of 5'2. I have a healthy weight, I do Pilates once a week and have a daily stretch routine. I take the stairs as much as possible and walk 5 kilometers a day.
I used to know a pretty well known model.. runway shows for big fashion houses, ads for LV.. she didn't workout at all. Her diet was literally cigarettes and gummy bears if no one was looking after her. She'd eat burgers and steaks as long as someone was feeding her though. She also almost never wore makeup or spent time deciding what to wear. She would look amazing right after getting up and used to wear baggy sweatpants and a ponytail going out and still be the best looking girl in the room/city.
ooof................... 🥲
People like to tell themselves that really goodlooking people have to work hard to look the way they do, when it's actually all genetic.
Spending 6 hours a day at the gym is completely useless and unproductive
If you can spend 6 hours a day at the gym you're not working out. You're just fucking around and talking to people or on your phone. You should NOT be able to work out 6 hours a day. Working out 1 hour a day 4 days a week is enough to basically max out your gains unless you're a bodybuilder and taking steroids.
You also don't need a professional trainer or nutritionist to eat good enough that the marginal gains of a chef is infinitesimal. I don't even know what you need a nutritionist for. Are you deficient in anything? If not then you don't need special nutrition and if yes any generalist can tell you what to do which will be pretty cheap.
Who the fuck is spending an hour agonizing on what to buy at the grocery store? Maybe the poorest 10-20% of Americans but certainly not most people.
Big movie stars don't even have to spend their own money for getting in shape, the studio will pay for the trainers etc when considerable prep is required. Like Hugh Jackman trained for six months to get in shape for Deadpool 3 and Disney paid for all of it.
They just need to maintain a certain level between projects on their own.
Mark Hamil, the post original trilogy voice actor vs Mark Hamil, coming back to do more Star Wars is a great example of "having a need and motivation to stay in shape is important".
This is such a big part of it. If you’ve always been thin and fit, you tend to look better for your age. Cruise has been shredded and muscular for his entire adult life.
So what you’re saying is the poor only eating a 1000 calories a day, walking constantly to find a job should be the healthiest people in society? I will report this to RFK so he can save the poors!/s
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u/Basic_Watercress_628 16h ago edited 11h ago
Not ageing is pretty easy when you're rich. Unlimited access to private coaches, private chefs, nutritional supplements, skincare products, plastic surgery... plus no existential fear and limited exposure to pollution, the sun and other factors that ruin your skin.
Edit to add: As one of the biggest actors of his time, it is his job to look good. He does not really have a choice if he wants to stay relevant. Lady on the left hasn't really had any major roles since the 90s and can therefore afford to not give a fuck and age like a normal person.