Ever wonder what the car exhaust and UV rays you soak up while walking to work and/or stuck in traffic are doing to your body? Bad news! They're very likely aging you before your time, just like your grueling work schedule and loud-ass neighbors. » 5/28/14 4:40pm 5/28/14 4:40pm

A handful of girls diagnosed as having 'Syndrome X' seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: aging. Scientists who are working to understand this rare condition say it could inform our efforts to radically extend the human lifespan. » 5/20/14 5:09pm 5/20/14 5:09pm

The other day, I read a red carpet interview with Kate Upton wherein she remarked that a character she's playing in the upcoming film The Other Woman is "young and naive, like I was once." Kate Upton is 21. » 4/15/14 6:15pm 4/15/14 6:15pm

Nothing is quite so paradoxically intimate and alien as the aging process. We are ourselves—we know that—but which self are we? I know that when I am 75 I will still be Lindy, but even now, at 32, the "me" I see in my head is a chimera: my 16-year-old body, my 26-year-old energy, my 9-year-old confidence, the… » 4/14/14 3:30pm 4/14/14 3:30pm

Misao Okawa celebrated her 116th birthday today, making her the oldest person in the world. » 3/05/14 9:00pm 3/05/14 9:00pm

Pop quiz: If a woman looks old + sexy and no one is around to validate her, does she still emit a breathy whimper? No really, in order to be sexy, who has to "agree" that you're sexy? Any passing stranger? A panel of Russian judges? The answer is one person, and one person only: You. The rest is sexy magic. And you… » 2/04/14 10:20am 2/04/14 10:20am

The Contilia Retirement Group in Essen, Germany created a calendar, using their residents as models striking poses as some of Hollywood's most iconic movie characters. » 1/23/14 2:15pm 1/23/14 2:15pm

In accordance with her 50th birthday on Friday, Michelle Obama spoke with People magazine about her workout routine, eating right and those pesky things that crop up on your face as you age that we call wrinkles but cosmetic companies call lines. » 1/15/14 10:50am 1/15/14 10:50am

A new study has zeroed in on a chemical which, when elevated in mice, rejuvenated muscles, with dramatic results. » 12/23/13 12:20pm 12/23/13 12:20pm

You know, I've always been excited about being old because I thought I could be like my grandmother: relaxed, full of life, smoking a cigarette from a bitch stick while calling the police on my neighbors, but then these people come along and mess up my entire fantasy. Now I have to dance? I don't even have the energy… » 12/04/13 9:45am 12/04/13 9:45am

Back when I was in my early 20s, before I became the proud, dazzling, professional, skirt-suited woman-scholar that I am today (i.e. a hungry, unshowered, still-in-bed hangover-crone who's only managed to make it to semi-vertical today despite having had to pee for literally four hours), I used to make this joke in… » 10/22/13 10:40am 10/22/13 10:40am

These are mesmerizing. Life is short, man. Also, women used to really do it up right, hair-style-wise. » 10/10/13 1:20pm 10/10/13 1:20pm

It's well established that Hollywood's all-consuming obsession with having the smooth and wrinkle-free skin of an infant or young child, the luscious pelt of an young otter, and the calculating, bitter heart of a sea witch has birthed scores of bizarre cosmetic surgery procedures. It basically goes without saying… » 10/04/13 1:30pm 10/04/13 1:30pm

Elizabeth Wurtzel is pissed at today's youth—which she dubs "the lamest generation"—because they suck at being in their 20s. And she should know, because she's 46. Or something? Also, she finds Lena Dunham's thighs "inexcusable." Can 60 Minutes just give her Andy Rooney's vacated segment already? » 9/30/13 12:00pm 9/30/13 12:00pm