Your figure or your face? The old wives’ tale goes that post 40, women need to choose between having a slim figure (and risk looking a little gaunt) or a youthful-looking face (and accept a plumper bottom).
Sounds like sexist nonsense? Of course! (The same dilemma is never levelled at men.) When we pose this cheeky question to TV’s Linda Barker, the petite blonde is surprised. ‘Oooh, I’ve never heard that before!’ she giggles over Zoom in her native Yorkshire tones. ‘I think you can have both!’ Sports-mad Linda, now 58, has been ‘somewhere between a size 8 and a 10’ for decades.
She famously dazzled us all with her fabulous bikini body in reality diving show Splash in 2013 and she’s looking just as trim today – and enviably fresh-faced
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