It’s partly because people are only showing the photographs that “prove” the idea. I have a picture of my mom from when she was 11. She looks like 6 in it.
But using JLo as a comparison is lols. JLo has access to – and uses – the most up to date anti-aging technology from botox to creams to cryotreatment to lasers to the photograph they’re using of her is retouched. She is artificially young-looking. I’ve seen the unretouched photos of her. She looks every year of 50.
A lot of it is aesthetics. Post-1960s youth culture is the dominant driver and the dominant aesthetic. The 15 year old doesn’t look old; she looks like a 15 year old in a fashion we associate with older people.
The other big thing other than we arrest aging in general is pollution. Our air quality is so so much better than it was mid-20th century – or late 19th century – it’s not even a comparison. London’s smog used to be so bad visibility was 20 feet, people used to walk into the wrong front door, and acid rain ate everything. You can still see the effects of acid rain in what trees and plants were used in landscaping that are still around today. We don’t used leaded gasoline, we have filters on our cars, our coal plants are not right in our cities, we have regulation on pollution.
But also better makeup textures on celebrity faces that use anti-aging tech you haven’t even heard of.
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