Elle Sez Older Women Can Feel Sexy And Charismatic; No Shit, Sez Majority Of Female Population Who Aren’t 16-Year-Old Models

In another of those stories that make us say “well, duh” while masking a pang of sadness that such things even need to be reiterated in the press, Elle Macpherson – a ripe old dame at the age of 43; pictured walking, miraculously, without her frame – has told Harper’s Bazaar that she still feels sexy as she gets older.

We need to be told this because you could be forgiven for thinking that women died at about 38, such is the paucity of “older” females in the fashion industry public eye.

“Only as I get older do I feel really beautiful, sexy and charismatic, enigmatic and interesting and all those things one likes to feel about oneself,” Elle tells the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

As if to prove the point, in the fashion bible’s photo shoot Elle has cloned Mrs Robinson, the movie role made famous by Anne Bancroft in The Graduate.

So, in other words, photo editors of Harper’s, an “older” woman can still be sexy, provided a) she gets around in high-class lingerie, b) she looks like Elle and c) that young men still find her attractive.

Honestly, is it too much to ask that women of 40+ aren’t spoken of with the same hushed reverence that you might use to discuss a person who has managed to live past 100?