Yeah, I've had similar - I also once got told I looked like Christina Hendricks, which I most certainly don't
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Ageing definitely sucks - my eyesight is terrible, my hearing is virtually non existant now, my back hurts and I can't go running any more unless I shuffle along like a tortoise. I look better than I did thirty years ago though, mostly because I'm not poor.
Of all the sectors to work in ours is pretty egalitarian; for every conceivable age group (and size, height, build, ethnicity, hair colour etc etc) there are punters who will rush to book, and punters who would rather flush their money down the bog. Suggesting to other women that our value and desirability diminishes with age is not just twattish, it isn't even slightly true.
I'll be happy to hit 60 - I'll be in a whole new search category and I suspect there won't be that many others to stand out from if everybody else is still claiming to be 48
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