Edel Coffey: Learning to love ourselves as we get older

"Even I as a mere mortal woman have found it depressing to watch my jawline become jowly and my waistline become stubbornly thicker as I get older, but I try to keep it in perspective. It’s not the sum of who I am, it’s not the sum of my life."

Edel Coffey: getting older oughtn't be painful

It’s been a busy month for ex-supermodels. Take a look at this month’s Vogue magazine and you might think you have been transported back to 1996. Linda Evangelista is on the cover, and Kate Moss is inside promoting her new wellness brand, Cosmoss, which she launched this week.

Some have expressed amusement at the idea of Moss launching a wellness brand; Kate has always been the Keith Richards of supermodels and has referred to her own adrenal glands and nervous system as ‘f***ed’. But maybe that’s exactly what the wellness industry needs. Someone who has had her authentic struggles with bad living and now wants to share the joys of clean living, meditation and herbal tea (she has two types for sale on her Cosmoss website, FYI).