I'd say Italian women age very slowly.

My grandmother is in her mid 90s but does not look it, or act it.

My mother and her sister are younger but look decades younger, and do not act their age. Or let's put it this way one of them had surgery recently and had to go to a rehab/physical therapy place afterwards. They said that there were people there who were decades younger than them who looked a lot older than they are.

But none of the women in my family smoke and sometimes they drink alcohol but it's just a glass of red wine with a meal.

They also have never done tanning like in a tanning bed or with those fake tans products or skin dyes people would get in the 80s. They would get some sun on the beach or outside while gardening but they would wear sunscreen, and not intentionally burn themselves really badly.

Last edited by Italianheritage; 06/19/14 03:22 PM.