Sandra Bullock: 50 years old, but I win in gravity

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Little is known about her personal life: despite her worldwide fame, she managed to remain one of the highest paid stars for twenty years, never once giving her side to those character killers about which unpleasant gossip. To say: the crisis of her only marriage (to motorcyclist and television host Jesse James) remained a mystery until the day the divorce was announced shortly after winning the Oscars. And her plan to adopt as a single, not very small child, whose presence was subsequently discovered from some random photographs, also remained a secret.

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The thought of raising her son (Louis, now four and a half) without a man by his side never frightened her.
“No, don’t worry. Neither before nor after. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it. And then I actually share Louis with a lot of great people, friends and family,” she says. After having a baby, she briefly retired from acting to work on it full-time. At the moment he appears to be working on a film project about Brownie Wise, the woman who invented the door-to-door sale of Tupperware plastic containers, the unsung heroine of American capitalism. Directed by Tate TaylorHelp

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“There are only three ages in Hollywood: the doll, the district attorney, and walk with daisy“. So said Goldie Hawn in The First Wives Club (’96). Times have changed. There is also an age-old Sandra Bullock today. Who, long before going out with Daisy, is doing what she likes. And she overpaid: $20 million cash plus 15 percent of the proceeds for Gravityin just one film, $70 million was earned.

In addition to cinema and her son, Sandra cultivates other expensive and demanding hobbies. On the one hand, he invests in the reconstruction of historical buildings and opens a business (he has several restaurants), on the other hand, he generously donates money to help humanitarian projects. For example, quietly, without talking too much about it, she got the Warren Eastorn School in New Orleans, the oldest school in Louisiana, destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, back on its feet. Founded in 1843, it used to be a white-only school, but today it has predominantly black boys on scholarships. After Katrina, he risked becoming a condominium, but instead he became a school again, a point of reference for the community.

Well done Sandra, the “poster girl” of the perfect fifty-year-old: beautiful, rich and kind. But one. Without husbands and boyfriends. She was recently credited with flirting with Hugh Grant (wow!) and muscular actor Chris Evans, 33. The latter must have been the idea of ​​a very patriotic press office. America’s sweetheart and Captain America himself, but look what a beautiful gravure couple.

When journalists asked for confirmation, Chris made a mistake: “I love Sandra. I have seen Speed when I was in seventh grade and always thought she was the perfect woman.” Sandra joked: “You fell behind, guys. Chris and I were already married and also divorced.

In short, the lady does not seem to be eager to be reunited. After all, would you enjoy the experience with Jesse James? Someone clearly bored with being a prince consort and cheating on his flawless superstar wife with a more tattooed stripper than a Maori warrior? Well, maybe not.

“I think there’s too much social pressure for us all to be in a relationship,” Sandra once told me. “There are a lot of newspapers here with flashy headlines like Ten Ways to Find a Man and the like. Throw them in the trash, newspapers and public pressure! Because the truth is that not everyone feels good in a couple: there are those who feel good being alone, and those who, on the other hand, despite the fact that they are a couple, are not happy at all.

Experience (a euphemism for age) doesn’t come at all. You acquire a detachment that allows you to look down on your mistakes on other women who still expect more or less gay principles. Bullock’s wisdom would also demonstrate that, aside from the inevitable pitfalls that a 50th birthday entails, there are a number of benefits that should not be underestimated.

It is no coincidence that blogs dedicated to those over 50 have been disappearing on the Internet for some time now, one of the most famous is the American editionhuffington post and Rita Wilson, 57, wife of Tom Hanks and proud mantra bearer, often writes to us: “50 is not an age of decline, but an age of rethinking.”

The web is full of stories about economically independent women who, perhaps after a divorce and raising children, changed jobs, countries or even just a hairstyle and were reborn in spirit and appearance, with or without surgical interventions. Having all these boom-year-old, feminist-born, 50-somethings on the scene means, in terms of quick marketing, a crowd of interesting consumers, would-be entrepreneurs, resilient and driven, ready to start a second, and probably very long waistline considering middle age growth.

Will 50 be the new 20, whatever that means? I suspect this is one of those rip-offs of modern Western thought, a sort of story about inner beauty. Let’s face it: the slogan “50 is beautiful” is hard to believe also because we are constantly distracted by the relentless impulse of males to youth, in the form of partners half their age. For example, actor Jeff Goldblum, 61, just got engaged to former Olympic gymnast Emily Livingston, 31. Normal administration, under which a man guarantees himself an immediate revival of feelings and free care for the future. Meanwhile, if Sandra Bullock does get engaged to Chris Evans, the only thing guaranteed is betting on the length of the relationship.

And that is not all. Despite the advances in medicine and the habit of going to the gym, there is little they can do, as all fifty-year-olds know: tissues give in. As 56-year-old Sharon Stone recently said, “My ass is as soft as Brie cheese.” Sharon is exaggerating. However, if you are in doubt, dear Sandra, use those years in the T-shirt and shorts you have left. Happy birthday!

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