Someone needs to explain to me

[SocialDemocrat61]

How the hell are they both the same age?

[mucifer]

1. Plastic surgery lots of exercise . Wealthy people can look a lot younger than they are.

Also, the photo could be airbrushed. It looks so physically painful to me. I'd rather look my age or even older.

I appreciate Cher for who she is and now how she looks.

I hate trump for who he is and not how he looks.

[SocialDemocrat61]

5. So what's Trump's excuse?

[mucifer]

12. I don't really care. It's shallow IMO. I don't care how he looks. I care what he does.

[Igel]

15. He didn't want to pay others to provide facial upkeep.

Probably still dyes his hair.

Who knows what she'd look like if not for on-going renovation?

Then there's the simple fact that people age differently. Overweight = more possibility for sagging. Healthier diet and such can help postpone some aging. Sun or UV exposure is horrible for skin.

Plus there's the photograph-selection effect. You can pick a good picture with good lighting, a smile, etc., or a bad picture. We've griped about when (D) are presented with their worst possible pictures because it's just unethical but seem oblivious to the same principle when it suits us. I don't care which way a publication leans, I prefer representative, neutral, depictions. (Unless it's specifically of somebody screaming, tripping, barfing, whatever--and *that* is the story. Not "So-and-so gave a speech at the Rotary Club" and it shows the person dozing off or bedraggled or tripping up the stairs, unless that's what s/he actually looked like while giving the speech.)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. lol really?

[SocialDemocrat61]

3. She is actually a month older

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. I meant "lol really you don't know why she looks the way she does?"

[SocialDemocrat61]

6. She's 79

So is he

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Besides different genetics and life choices, one person has had a lot of surgery done over the years and one has not.

[Greg_In_SF]

7. Tons of

plastic surgery.

[AzTired64]

9. Plastic Surgery

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I remember watching a video of Cher singing on an Iowa Class Battleship and thinking how she looked and then thought to myself which one has more work done on it, her or the ship. I do not understand the humans need for trying to defy time. We age, our appearance changes, you shouldn't judge yourself or allow yourself to be judged on how you look. My two cents

[Igel]

16. Vanity and image.

They call it (okay, "we" call it) looking our best, but it's not really our best--it's the surgeons' best.

I figure they should also wear little patches so we, too, can judge the expense and maybe patronize their vendors: "Cheeks by Giovanni", "hairline by Rosenberg", "chin and jawline by Ghosh", "hair color by Mystique of Beverly Hills", "breasts by Robert of Hollywood, repaired by Olaweyo of Simi Valley&quot .

Imagine the TikTok sub-economy that would form over critiquing the celebs' choices of body redesigners, their relative merits, costs, etc., with all the teenage girls (and boys) clamoring for a Xmas trip to visit one of their celeb's favorite body upgraders.

[AzTired64]

17. Racing Cars

Some people would have some many little patches on them, they would look like a Formula 1 car.

[Srkdqltr]

10. To be honest. Surgery yes, but also exercise. No matter she had to do the physical work.

After all her face and physical appearance is who she is.
Most show business people, their face is their fortune.

[Vinca]

11. Obviously plastic surgery, but to Cher's credit she hasn't gone full space alien.

[dutch777]

13. God smiles on talent and sincere effort not on the pretenders maybe?

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Despite the plastic surgery, I've always heard the adage

that as one ages, their inner self begins to show on the outside. Chump is miserable, inside and out; Cher is a delight.