Brooke Shields has some questions. “I want to know why I suddenly feel this surge of power,” she asked this week. “Why am I finally emboldened to try new things?” I might have asked the same question of the women at my handstanding class last night. Typically about a third of the attendees are, like me, women in their fifties. We outnumber the young men and women by some margin. Unbelievably strong, unbelievably determined, unbelievably fearless – that’s us. Yeah!
Shields, 58, is setting out to find some answers in an as-yet-untitled book co-authored with Rachel Bertsche. With age can come a new-found feeling of empowerment with a side order of devil-may-care. I speak from experience. So “why does our culture treat women ‘of a
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