Midlife’s A Trip

AARP and the Essential Version of Jamie Lee Curtis

Posted on 24. Mar, 2008 by Karen in Inspiration

AARP’s “The Magazine” hits the stands today and is sure to turn some heads as almost 50-something actress Jamie Lee Curtis takes her shirt off for the cover .  Sporting salt and pepper hair, a smile and nothing else, Curtis sends the message to millions of women in midlife that getting older doesn’t mean you’re over the hill.  

After buying hundreds of women’s magazines in my lifetime, it’s refreshing to see a magazine cover with an attractive, healthy woman with gray hair and a comfort about who she is in her own skin.  Dare I say it–someone like me.  Not a radical concept but AARP gets it.  Funny, it makes remember the time when I didn’t get AARP.

I was only 49 years old when I picked up the mail one day and found an envelope from AARP addressed to me.  I was shocked—I mean didn’t they only go after people over 50?  And how did they knew my age when I was barely admitting it to myself–or anyone else for that matter.  I confess I felt like I had been hunted down, caught by AARP and forced to face that I was finally at the juncture of youth and midlife.  I felt deflated…and old.

Since that time, though, I’ve learned about the amazing value AARP adds in so many ways to people in midlife.  If you aren’t already a member, please sign up.  Millions of Baby Boomers like Jamie Lee and me can’t be wrong.

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