

It could still happen, but I’m just very, very careful now,” she says. “I’m very lucky I did not get any of those pre-cancers. Always go to dermatologists to make sure you’re not getting any cancer or anything precancerous.” When she was young, she would “hang out with George Hamilton and fry my skin with olive oil and a reflective board.” It was, as she says, “sun worship.”

It depends on how thin your skin is or how much damage you’ve got. And if you can accelerate the turnover of the skin with an exfoliant carefully, that’s a good idea. “Which is: Never go to bed with dirty skin. Her best skin-care advice? “Do what I do,” she says. She is a skin-care enthusiast and an unapologetic proponent of the fact that skin can be beautiful in every decade.

For Seymour, who is not interested in taking up any less space today than she did 40 years ago, this will not do. In a recent survey by the company of 1,000 women over the age of 50, respondents said they stopped feeling confident in the skin on their bodies at age 47, on average. Seymour is partnering with Crepe Erase on the #BodyWithSoul social campaign, which focuses on body love for women over 50.
