WOULD you just look at this picture. Breathtaking isn’t she? Almost 30 years since she first struck a pose for the camera there is little chance of Elle “The Body” Macpherson being done under the trade description act.
Snapped last week at the Jaguar XJ party at the Saatchi Gallery, in Chelsea, the 46-year-old supermodel doesn’t just look good for her age. She looks good for any age.
Standing at 6ft tall she is a bronzed goddess in a Herve Leger dress all long, lean limbs, luscious locks and mega watt smile. She positively glows with health.
Moreover, unlike some of her contemporaries, Elle does not appear to have succumbed to the knife or needle, avoiding that overstuffed pillow-face look rife among A-listers these days.
Elle puts her youthful looks down to an organic diet, cycling, surfing and yoga plus the obligatory eight glasses of water a day. Tough going, I know, but I would happily knock back snail smoothies if it guaranteed I look like that in 15 years time.
So why, instead of focusing on how great the Amazonian-like Aussie looks these days, did most writers choose last week to focus instead on the one picture in the set where she had a dodgy-looking bit of skin on her thigh?
I am guessing that the “Elle-ulite” pun was just too hard to resist.
It was the same last year when Elle was snapped riding the waves on a Sydney beach. Instead of celebrating a working mum showing off her great shape the magazines thought it much more relevant to highlight the tiny shadows on her bottom.
Elle is not the only one to have suffered. Remember those pictures of Jerry Hall on the beach a few years back? Even the swizzlestick that is Mrs Beckham has had every inch of her epidermis scrutinised for signs of the “dreaded orange peel” as it is usually so dramatically called.
Type the words ‘celebrities with cellulite’ into Google and just see how many hundreds of thousands of pages you will get.
Cellulite is the great leveller it seems. We like to reassure ourselves that celebrities may be rich, they may be beautiful, they may have a Birkin bag in every colour but they have wobbly bits too.
The thing is, having the lumps and bumps of the rich and famous pointed out to us does not make us feel better about our own (well maybe just for a minute or two).
With apologies to Susie Orbach, cellulite is a feminist issue. We all have it and we spend millions, if not billions, trying to beat it.
Men of course don't care about cellulite, not even the ones who have got it themselves (yes you can get it guys, check your stomach). When a blurry picture of Pamela Anderson running along the beach in Malibu appears in a newspaper believe me their eye is not drawn to the dimples on her legs.
It’s time to face facts ladies. When it comes to cellulite we have carved our own body brush to beat ourselves with.
