My friend turns 50 tomorrow. Not looking like 50 slightly softens the blow of the Big Five Oh, but not enough to make any tangible difference: 50 is 50 is 50. Being a rubbish friend in the remembering-people’s-birthdays department I hadn’t anticipated we’d be having a “oh God, 50, how and I mean why, urgh just urgh” conversation. My friend from school is going to be 50, and I have turned into the kind of person who gets her steps in. Naomi Campbell turned 50 in May and told Hello!

Source: The Irish Times August 18, 2020 22:52 UTC