Elle Macpherson is getting better with age

ELLE MACPHERSON, all 6ft of sun-kissed long lean limbs and a tumbling mane of blonde hair, is earnestly telling an audience of women in Selfridges, London, what it felt like to struggle with a muffin top, fatigue, and finding herself so irritable she shouted at the kids.

Frankly, it’s hard to believe the former supermodel’s ever had a muffin, let alone struggled with the resulting flab of pigging out on them, and it’s even more difficult to believe she’s 50 — she had her milestone birthday in March.

The big difference between Macpherson — once known globally as “The Body”— and the rest of us poor middle-aged mortals who just accept being sleep-starved and stroppy as the norm is that, in true celebrity style, she countered her slump two years ago by creating her own solution, an alkalising greens food supplement.