{"id":24845,"date":"2015-02-11T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:43","slug":"avoiding-to-smile-for-40-years-to-avoid-wrinkles-how-far-can-youth-culture-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/avoiding-to-smile-for-40-years-to-avoid-wrinkles-how-far-can-youth-culture-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding to smile for 40 years to avoid wrinkles: how far can youth culture go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Christian is a 50-year-old British woman who does not give her age. That is because she has not smiled for 40 years to avoid getting wrinkles, as said in British newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2935632\/Meet-woman-says-hasn-t-smiled-40-years-doesn-t-wrinkles.html\">DailyMail<\/a>. Avoiding to smile in order to look younger most likely means giving into excessive youth culture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Youth culture: she hasn\u2019t smiled for 40 years to look younger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tess-Christian-243x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24846\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tess-Christian-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tess-Christian-243x300\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Tess Christian explains to DailyMail: <em>\u201cI haven\u2019t laughed or smiled since I was a teenager. My dedication has paid off, I don\u2019t have a single line on my face.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old woman learnt from childhood to control her facial muscles to avoid smiling. Keeping tight lips was a struggle at first: \u201c\u2018<em>When I found something funny or I was tempted to laugh \u2014 which happened on a daily basis \u2014 I learned to control my facial muscles by holding them rigid\u201d<\/em>. She didn\u2019t smile on her wedding day or the day her daughter was born. She preferred to internalize her joy to avoid lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tess Christian has indeed very few lines on her face, but how much worth is spending 40 years of your life without smiling once?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail <strong>asked Londonian psychologist Amanda Hills about it. She explains that smiling is essential for mental health<\/strong>: she explains that smiling makes you release endorphins known as \u201chappy hormones\u201d which make you feel content. She adds that the more you smile, the happier you get because you are telling the neural pathways in your brain that you are happy, even if you are not. The brain is simply picking up muscle movement: thus, smiling more increases happiness, which is why some medical professionals recommend depression patients to practice smiling in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avoiding to smile can create unhappiness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Hills goes on saying that avoiding to smile creates the opposite effect. Indeed, a neutral face will not allow the brain to understand you are happy. Meanwhile, smiles tend to attract people and neutral expressions repels them, which can obviously affect your own happiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLadies, smile so your wrinkles can show in the right places!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jeunisme-et-sourire-204x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24847 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jeunisme-et-sourire-204x300.png\" alt=\"Jeunisme-et-sourire-204x300\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jeunisme-et-sourire-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Jeunisme-et-sourire-204x300-150x220.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>Madame de Maintenon recommended: \u201cLadies, smile so your wrinkles can show in the right places!\u201d. 70-year-old Christyne Remnant followed advice. She smiles constantly and admits to the Daily Mail she avoided wrinkling her forehead to avoid lines. She confesses that people are always surprised when they learn about her age and adds that she never uses face cream of Botox.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding to smile or smile constantly to avoid wrinkles can look like extreme measures. What do you think of these methods?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Christian is a 50-year-old British woman who does not give her age. That is because she has not smiled for 40 years to avoid getting wrinkles, as said in British newspaper DailyMail. Avoiding to smile in order to look younger most likely means giving into excessive youth culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,3255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-une","category-unusual"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"SilverEconomy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/author\/enredac26\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Tess Christian is a 50-year-old British woman who does not give her age. 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