Those damn French women. They don’t get fat, they have good parenting skills, AND they age with style and don’t get facelifts. Want to know their secret? Mireille Guiliano, author of the New York Times best-seller French Women Don’t Get Fat, will visit FIAF Montclair to reveal the most guarded French secrets to aging on Tuesday, January 14 at Van Vleck House & Gardens.
Guiliano offers her advice, storytelling and humor while divulging the most guarded secrets French women know about looking and feeling great. In her book, she addresses everything from lotions and potions to diet, style, friendship, and romance.
Guiliano tells Baristanet she will speak about aging with style and attitude (the subtitle of her book), but especially for the FIAF, she will cover how the French look at aging in a different way, “I did not say better, just different,” she emphasized.
“It is cultural. We don’t consider being old at 50 like many cultures do, and we look at aging as another stage of life that requires some prevention/planning and inner search as each of us is unique,” she explains and adds, “To the realistic self assessment I’d add ATTITUDE, a powerful and magic pill, something that is quite different from aging gracefully, an expression I don’t like or use as it sets unrealistic expectations.”
Guiliano says it is her hope that women can learn that although she doesn’t truly condemn facelifts. “I discuss how it should be a last resort and give plenty of inexpensive tips to age with attitude by controlling what we can (and we are all in the same boat for this) and taking action whether it’s the way we dress, our face, our hair, our movement and rest and play time and much more.”
Hmm, aging with attitude. Sounds très bien to me!
Book Signing with Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don’t Get Facelifts
Van Vleck House & Gardens, 21 Van Vleck, Montclair, NJ, 07042
Tuesday, January 14 at 7 pm
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online here