HEADING home from the night club, “party animal” Elizabeth Young, 60, wondered whether she should take a break from clubbing.
She’d been on the dancefloor until 4am but it wasn’t her energetic moves that had made her feel so exhausted. It was because 11 men – all young enough to be her son – had tried flirting with her and she was getting sick of the attention.
Getting chatted up by toy boys isn’t unusual for the 60 -year-old. She says it something that happens to her every time she goes partying with friends.
The youngest guy who approached me I would say was 21. Some are in their 20s, some are in their 30s
Elizabeth
The party animal who describes herself as “young by name, young by nature”, tells The Sun: “Younger men try to chat me up pretty much every time I go out.
“I turn up to the club and they’re there waiting for me.
“The youngest guy who approached me I would say was 21. Some are in their 20s, some are in their 30s.
“They say, ‘You’re fit, do you go to the gym?’ or ‘I could talk to you until the sun goes down.’”
However, all the attention has started to take its toll.
Elizabeth says it’s “draining”, adding: “Sometimes I have to go in hiding for months because it’s really frustrating.
“I don’t enjoy men being in my face, saying I look fit, asking to take me on dates.
“I don’t want any of that; it bogs me down. I just want to go out and have fun.”
Elizabeth, who is a petite 5ft tall and wears size four to six clothes, says not settling down or having kids has also given her more time and energy to work on her toned body.
Most days she’ll be in the gym at 6.30am where she does a pool-based workout for an hour. Even when she’s been out clubbing until 4am – she’ll still be back in the gym for 8am.
She says: “I’ve always prioritised looking after myself because my attitude is health is wealth.
“It doesn’t matter how much money you have, if you’ve lost your health, there’s nothing that money can do to bring it back.”
For Elizabeth, the ageing process is nothing but a scam, exclaiming ‘I don’t age, I just live’.
But it’s not just about ‘looking young and thin’, Elizabeth’s routine ensures that she stay fit and ‘functional’.
I have enough confidence to live forever single and happy, rather than to marry young and be miserable.
Elizabeth
The seamstress, from Croydon, South London, claims her youthful looks are down to staying single, and claims dodging marriage has also helped.
She shared: “I have enough confidence to live forever single and happy, rather than to marry young and be miserable.
“And when you don’t need anyone’s approval, you stay younger for longer.”
She added: “If you need people in your life to hold your hand, you’re not going to have a good quality of life when you get older.
“That’s why there’s so many lonely older people, because they’ve lost their independence.”
While Elizabeth was coy about whether she was currently dating, she did say: “I wouldn’t date anyone who approached me in a club or on the street.”
The 60-year-old is also careful about what she eats and believes “food is fuel”.
But she says she has no time to cook and mostly relies on Sainsbury’s meal deals.
Her go-to is the Classic Triple sandwich with egg and cress, chicken and bacon, and smoked ham and cheddar, with an Arla protein yoghurt and a Lucozade.
Elizabeth, who cares for her disabled sister, says: “I don’t cook, I don’t have time. It’s about practicalities.”
Meanwhile, she believes the secret to her wrinkle-free complexion is avoiding unnecessary stress.
In 2008 she appeared on Channel 4‘s Supersize vs. Superskinny where Dr Christian Jessen warned her then-diet of rice, tuna and raw garlic was going to “age her quite rapidly”.
She says: “My body is doing things that it couldn’t do maybe 10 years ago, even 20 years ago…I’m in better shape now than I was when I was 40.”
She believes that some women ‘become invisible’ when they reach 50, but this has never been something that’s crossed her mind.
“Society tells us that when we’re a certain age we’re not allowed to do this and that,” she says. “I dress how I want.”
