Botox? What Botox, says Marie Helvin, still an all natural beauty at 56

Posted by lena on May 21, 2009 in News | 0 comments

She has a body to make women half her age green with envy.
Yet unlike so many of her contemporaries, Marie Helvin‘s youthful looks owe nothing to the cosmetic surgeon’s knife – or even to the wonders of Botox.
Instead, the 56-year-old says the secrets of her success are simply soap, water and lashings of moisturiser.
The supermodel, who is single, said: ‘Whatever I use on my face I take right down [to my cleavage]. They’re my best asset. Not that anyone really sees them any more. But I do.’
Of course, good genes are also important, as Miss Helvin – who had a Japanese mother and American father – readily admits.
‘My mother always said that Japanese women look youthful for years and then one morning they wake up and they’ve aged like 100 years,’ she said in an interview with The Times.
‘And she’s right. It happened to her when she was 79.’
Miss Helvin, who is the face of a Marks & Spencer clothing range for over-45s, said her regime means there is no need for images of her to be airbrushed, either.
‘I don’t like it when I see magazine photographs of me that have been retouched because I think I look better now than I did when I was in my 40s.’
source: dailymail.co.uk