Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age by Valerie Ramsey, Heather Hummel (With)

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Synopsis

A stunning 68-year-old Ford Model inspires you how to age--beautifully, healthfully, gracefully

This world-famous beauty reveals the best-kept secrets behind her timeless face, toned body, and unstoppable spirit. With an upbeat, inspiring tone, she shows you how to enhance your natural beauty, increase your energy and live life to the fullest--at any age. You will learn her professional tips on skin care, make-up, exercise and nutrition, as well as her secrets for nourishing the soul and stimulating the mind. It’s a complete home regime filled with invigorating ideas and empowering exercises to beautify the body, strengthen the mind, and cherish the spirit . . . gracefully.

Publishers Weekly

Ramsey's best friend in high school was the beautiful Ali MacGraw, who "hopscotched right over the gawky stage" of adolescence. With such a friend, Ramsay says, "you couldn't help but feel insecure." Readers might be tempted to feel the same as Ramsey describes hopscotching over her own gawky, aging stage. Beautiful and accomplished, she has gone from happy stay-at-home mom of six (of whom coauthor Hummel is one) to older career woman and runway model in her 60s. But while few women have her genes, or her success, they may benefit from Ramsey's frank advice and beauty tips. She includes such useful information as how to pose for a photograph, strategic uses for Botox, what to eat, how to exercise, what makeup to use, the advantages of meditation and how to stay sexual in a long-term marriage. None of it is particularly original, but it is heartfelt and admirably health conscious (except perhaps for the Botox). Not everything has been roses for Ramsey. She's a survivor of uterine cancer and was diagnosed with a weak heart. How, then, does she do it? Ramsey attributes much of her success to the power of positive thinking. And then, of course, there are those genes. (May)

Biography

Valerie Ramsey is a highly sought-after Ford Model who has graced runways, print ads, and television, modeling for Lexus and St. John's Knits and appearing on “Today” and “Extra,” among other shows. She is the media and public relations manager for Pebble Beach Resorts, the mother of six, and the grandmother of seven. Valerie resides with her husband, Wally, in California.

Heather Hummel, Valerie's daughter, is a writer whose work has appeared in Blue Ridge Anthology (along with David Baldacci and Rita Dove) and Messages of Hope and Healing. Heather is a graduate of the University of Virginia and is an active member of the International Women's Writing Guild. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.