I'm getting old......

All of your life you seek out that perfect body. Some are lucky enough to have it from a young age and keep it into adulthood. Some of those people even are able to eat whatever they want without ever gaining a pound.

Must be nice.

But eventually, time catches up with all of us. Whether you had to fight every step of the way to maintain your figure...

...or it all came naturally, at some point gravity is going to take over. Things that were once perky will begin to sag. Skin that once had elasticity will begin to droop. And that muscle mass that was always taut and toned without an ounce of effort on your part will begin to atrophy. For many women, they will simply accept their fate. They make plenty of clothes to cover all the saggy parts and, besides, there's more to life than how one looks. Others will fight it every step of the way. Case in point...Holly Hunter:

Holly is 51. FIF. TY. ONE. And I'm not going to even lie to you. The woman looks awesome. One look at her and you KNOW that woman puts some major time into looking that good, though. She has to. She works in a business where the roles would have already dried up for her if she didn't. But even at that, I've heard people make wisecracks about her trying to look 25. Not long ago I was watching a movie with Cary Grant's ex-wife, Dyan Cannon. 71. Okay, the movie was made more than ten years ago, when she was in her early 60s. She was on a cruise ship with other senior citizens, making her the resident hottie. Throughout the movie she wore long sleeves and tons of makeup and unless you really THOUGHT about it, you didn't really think of her as a 60-something woman trying to look 20.

In fact, betcha 10 years ago I wouldn't have thought about it at all. But lately, I've been thinking about it a lot. We go to Wal-Mart on a hot weekend afternoon and I'm looking around at all the 150-pound 15-year-olds in tank tops and short-shorts. Sure they might not fit into those clothes as well as some other girls, but they, for the most part, have firm skin and muscle tone. They don't look nearly as bad in those tank tops as they will at the same weight when they are 50. To every thing, there is a season.

There's a season to wear sleeveless dresses...

And a season to cover those darn bat wings UP:

When your season has come and gone, you have two choices. You can spend four hours a day in the gym fighting it with everything you have...or you can just buy some clothes with sleeves on them. They make them, you know.