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Over-50, owning it and on the cover of a magazine

— by Alyson Walsh

It’s incredibly empowering to see a chic, grey-haired woman on the cover of a magazine. Saar is a Dutch website for women over-50 or what I like to refer to as Generation FAB (Fifty And Beyond). Saar means ‘Sarah’ in Dutch  – apparently in the Netherlands when someone is over-50 they’re ‘seeing Sarah’ or ‘seeing Abraham’. Me neither. The website launched in 2016 and this autumn the editorial team (all over-50) has produced a special edition, one-off magazine that looks cool and interesting. Obviously, it’s in Dutch and so I can’t read it. They contacted me regarding a feature on ‘the most inspiring 50-something Instagrammers‘; other topics in the magazine include work, families, sex and relationships and psychology. There’s a feature on Empty Nesting with Mimi who looks like a woman after my own heart…

Photo: Studio Huib van Wersch

 

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