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 [PEOPLE
MAGAZINE] Judging by the sexiest sexagenarian around, not a heck of a lot.
She may own high heels older than some Spice Girls, but at 60, pop goddess
Tina Turner is in top form. She has a new gold record, Twenty Four Seven,
a nearly sold-out 50-city farewell tour and a still-ferocious stage act
that makes most other singers look like Al Gore. And that's on top of
those growling good looks that have only grown more bewitching with the
years.
"She has a beautiful nose, great cheekbones, an amazing head and a
gorgeous, sexy body," says her longtime makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin. "She's
pushing the limits for everyone." One thing the mother of four sons (she
includes former husband Ike Turner's two boys in the count) and
grandmother of two isn't pushing is some trendy fitness routine: Turner
hasn't worked out a day in her life. "But you've got to consider my work,"
she says. "The singing, dancing, sweating -- it's like doing aerobics for
40 years."
And while the 5'4" native of Nutbush, Tenn., wishes she were more
curvaceous ("I'm more masculine in form," she gripes), she can still make
a miniskirt proud. "She has beautiful legs and incredible energy," says
singer Cyndi Lauper, who opened for Turner on a 1997 tour. "Tina always
looks stunning."
One of Turner's secrets is the homeopathic mixture of vitamins and
minerals that she takes through an IV drip about once a year (she says
she's allergic to the coating on pills). "And I've never done drugs and
never smoked," she adds. Turner also acknowledges a judicious use of
makeup, which while performing can be "quite frightening sometimes," she
admits. At home "I'm better off without makeup, because it accentuates my
lines."
After her tour ends, Turner wants to spend more time with her partner of
14 years, German record executive Erwin Bach, 43, at their homes in France
and Switzerland. But she'll never give up her glamorous ways. "I am vain,"
she confesses. "When I look in the mirror, I want to look good to myself.
"Her assessment: "I'm kind of okay with how I'm aging." What's "kind of"
have to do with it?
In the future, many 61-year-old
women might look as good as Tina Turner does today, but they will do so
with the benefit of beauty products that are as yet uninvented, whereas
Turner has been an unstoppable force of nature of pop music with
undimmed intensity for 40 years. This will be the last time that anyone
can go rolling down the river with the Tina Turner show, as she claims
that this will be her last large-scale tour. |
