Joy’s Story: Confident and Sexy at 66

For Joy, the most pleasurable thing about being 66 is knowing exactly who she is—and feeling confident that way.

Watch the video to hear her story. 

I would tell my 20-year-old self, don’t worry about it. It’s all gonna be okay. Follow your dreams, follow your impulses, and pay attention. A lot of it is paying attention. 

I mean, I do yoga and all that kind of stuff, and that has a lot to do with paying attention. Paying attention to what’s around you, paying attention to what’s going on with you. 

The connection between feeling good and looking good. There is a definite connection between that because when you think you look good, you feel good, and when you really feel good you look good because you don’t care about it. 

Pro-age: I like this phrase because it’s celebrating who you are. Celebrating the years, the life that you’ve experienced and what you can share from that experience with other people. There’s so much ageism in the world. To ignore older people, you’re also ignoring experience. 

It’s not so much looks, what it looks, what is the on the outside. What makes a woman beautiful is what’s happening on the inside. It’s about what’s happening in your heart and how you feel about yourself, and how you feel about the world around you. And all that kind of beauty comes out. I mean, you see grandmothers, and people think of them as being so beautiful. And it’s not about looks, it’s all about what’s going on inside and it just comes right through. It glows.