Anke Engelke: Her relationship to aging is so relaxed

Anke Engelke
Her relationship to aging is so relaxed

Anke Engelke on the red carpet.

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For the new cover of “Vogue”, Anke Engelke gave some thought to how she feels about body positivity and aging.

Anke Engelke (56) graces the cover of the current “Vogue”: Curly hair, barefoot and in an oversized bright yellow coat, she smiles from the new track, quote: “I’m not perfect.”

Apparently, she lived up to her reputation of being one of the nicest people in show business again on this shoot. The reporter reports that Elke learned the name of every person on the set “in no time at all” and brought gifts for everyone.

“Run without hurry, yoga without style”

In the interview, the actress and comedian explains that she has felt very comfortable in her body since she was around 25. At some point she understood “that you can get a better body feeling with exercise and nutrition.” When it comes to sports, she relies on little effort and a lot of relaxation: “I go running, but not in a hurry, and I do yoga, but without style.”

Engelke has a particularly positive attitude towards the outward signs of aging. “Imagine if you didn’t age, if your body didn’t show what you’ve already experienced. God, I would be sad!” Engelke describes and lists: “Well, I mean, I had three children I’ve cried so much and been so scared in my life, I’ve often slept too little and so often too long, I didn’t judge the sun correctly, I didn’t judge the cold correctly… I want a testimony of that to have!”

Engelke also doesn’t trust the prejudice that men become more attractive with age and women don’t: “We both know a lot of men over 40 or 50 who don’t look like models. They have a plauze, everything hangs, and their hair is falling out . I’m not worried about that at all.”

“I almost cried”

Once a magazine changed a cover photo of her so much that she hardly recognized herself at the kiosk because all the creases were gone. “I almost cried. That made me really uncomfortable because I don’t want people to think that’s my wish.” Worse, she said, the magazine would sell people a lie: “When you get older, you’re only second class.”

But she herself does not seem to feel any desire to change her body: “If a fairy came and said: ‘Come here, I have a spare parts store here. What would you rather have differently?’ I think I’d say, ‘Thank you. Rather go to a person who just got out of chemo and would like their boobs back.'”

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