Martha Stewart, 81, glowing in a bathing suit, graces the cover of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. That makes her the oldest woman ever to be on the cover of the magazine. I love it when assumptions about aging like ‘no one would be interested in a picture of an 81-year-old woman in a bathing suit,’ are challenged and disproved. More thoughts on this photo later, but let’s give a big hooray for smashing ageist notions.
As someone who’s working hard to expand what is possible for all of us as we age, I want to celebrate some of the highly visible older people today. They are among those who are expanding our horizons and creating the possibility of a totally new old age for many of us.