Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now
 

Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now
No computer, no cell phone, no facelift. ‘I am old-school all the way. School of rock.’
By Deborah Barrow, Editor-in-Chief
WowOWow

Stevie Nicks is a very busy woman.

Some 40 years into one of the most remarkable careers in music, she is touring the country with her famous supergroup, Fleetwood Mac, which still fills large venues with rapturous baby-boomer fans; she is releasing a new solo CD, "The Soundstage Sessions," as well as a new solo concert DVD, "Live in Chicago."

And that’s just March and April. So what’s with this sudden flurry of activity?

"It wasn’t meant to all be together," Nicks told wowOwow in an interview squeezed in during a short break in the concert tour. "Live in Chicago" was supposed to release last October, but with the Election, it was moved to this two-week period while the tour is on vacation."

What’s it like to be a rock goddess at the tender age of 60? "I would be lying to you if I told you it was easy. Our show is very hard and very long: two hours and ten minutes. Spinning around in seven-inch heels, it’s long. You have to be in really good shape. You have to take care of yourself."

In her new DVD, Stevie Nicks takes to the stage like the gypsy that she was: blonde hair to the waist. Morgane Le Fay wedding dress under a black jacket. Top hat. Feather. Ubiquitous scarves. As The Washington Post said about the Fleetwood Mac concert, "Nicks showed she still knows how to really work a shawl."

"I’ve never had a facelift and I never will. I stopped laying in the sun at 28. I never go to bed with makeup on. I have creams and lotions and I take 20 minutes of rubbing it in my skin … like a little biochemist." Nicks tells her many female friends now in their 30s, "If you think you’re not going to care how you look when you’re 60, I’m here to tell you: You are going to care more. When you’re young and thin and cute, beauty, it’s your world. You will be sorry, later on, if you don’t take better care."

When asked about her online life, she skips barely a beat: "I don’t have a computer or a cell phone. I am old-school all the way. I am school of rock."

"In 1983 when I was going out with the love of my life, Joe Walsh (legendary rock god of James Gang and Eagles fame), he had built a room in a loft filled with pianos." According to Nicks, the first time she heard a tune she had just picked out on an electronic keyboard instantly played back by Walsh with full orchestration, she realized, "Everyone, even the violinists had been replaced."

Later that year, Walsh told Nicks he couldn’t be with her on her favorite holiday, Halloween, because he had to work on his computer.

"That means I have also been replaced. If computers are going to replace me in a man’s life and replace those violinists …"

That was the end of Nicks’s relationship with computers.

So no Facebook, no tweeting, no MySpacing for Nicks. She does have an official website, a good one — The Nicks Fix — which she infrequently posts to, but is kept up-to-date by her webmasters. (Great pictures, by the way.)

When asked who she wants to come back as in her next life, she says she wants to return as her Yorkie/Chinese Crested mix. "She only wears Ralph Lauren. She always wears Ralph Lauren. She travels like a rock star."

Stevie Nicks: How I Look Fabulous at 60
By K.C. Baker


People Magazine

Stevie Nicks is 60 but she still feels like she's on the "edge of 17," thanks to super-efficient Power Plate workouts that have whipped her into incredible shape.

"When I gained my 30 lbs., it was because I went on tranquilizers for eight years," Nicks told PEOPLE Monday, the day before her new CD, The Soundstage Sessions, and Live in Chicago DVD hit stores. "I don't blame myself for that."

The secret to staying slim is finding a healthy weight you can maintain, says the "Rhiannon" chanteuse, who is now a sleek size 8 and is touring with Fleetwood Mac for the first time in five years. "You don't have to weigh 105 lbs. Weigh 125 lbs. and stay there."

The singer adds that had she not been on tranquilizers in the '80s, "I would have stayed at 125 pounds from 1985 and [later on] probably would have weighed about 130 pounds. That would have been way better than fighting to get back to 130 lbs. from 175 lbs."

Short, efficient workouts on the Power Plate every other day have helped her keep the weight off. "I do it every other day for 13 minutes," says Nicks of the Power Plate, a machine with a vibrating platform that revs up workouts by forcing users to contract and release their muscles up to 50 times per second to maintain balance. "You can't get results faster than that."

Her other secret to looking so young? "I take good care of my skin," she says. "I never go to bed in makeup. I haven't laid out in the sun since I was 28. While everyone else is out there burning up, I'm walking around going, 'When I do look 60, you will all look 100. Enjoy it now because you aren't going to be happy when I look young enough to get a date and you don't.' I'll still be going out when I'm 75. Everybody else will be in the rest home!"

These are great MacMan...thanks :xoxo:

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She does have an official website, a good one — The Nicks Fix — which she infrequently posts to, but is kept up-to-date by her webmasters

Lol, infrequently= never.
Also lol @ "up-to-date"

OMG now her dog is a rock star :rolleyes:

NO facelift?? I doubt....

Good posting for sure.

i know she mentioned trying botox once & thought it horrific~ i believe her when she says she hasn't had a facelift~ she has aged very well~ she has some slight sagging around her jawline & i would think if she had had a facelift, this would be one of the places that would be tightened~

I do believe that she has not had a face lift. If you see her up close, you can tell - the jawline/neck area.

I do not believe it at all that she is a size 8 and weighs 130 pounds.

Nor do I.

I don't know what a Power Plate is, but thirteen minutes every other day? Sounds like a gimmick.

I am 5'7" and I'm at 140 right now- barely making it into an 8. At her height, even if she really was 130, an 8 would be rough.

The size you wear really does depend on the way you're built. In reading the article, I don't see where she is saying she is at 130 now.

I remember when I weighed 135 lbs. I would love to look that good again. I am still trying. I do remember Stevie saying that she doesn't eat anything with a lot of carbs in it. That also helps alot too. But it won't work for me....I love bread too much.:blob1::blob2:

I really do want to get a power plate too! But I bet it depends on your workout more than the plate itself. I probably couldn't keep up with whatever Stevie's workout on the plate is.

I love carbs too. It's very sad, actually. I ONLY want starch.

Michele

Is that estimate smaller or bigger to you? I saw Stevie in person, but that was a few years ago and she looked a little larger. From what I can see, she's lost some weight but I don't think drastically. However, I can believe she's 130 if she's very short. She's not a large woman, but she isn't thin either. Very medium, and it works well.

Lindsey, on the other hand, looks positively like a line in person. It's kind of ridiculous how little he is.:shocked:

I'm really interested in how this power plate device works. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE working out. It's probably one of the things that bring me most satisfaction, but I'm more into running/jogging, the eliptical, swimming, biking, and hiking. And I usually do these things for hour-long intervals. Never in my life have I done something for only 13 minutes. It sounds fascinating, but I would probably feel deprived. I'm going to research this thing...

I'm an 8 @ 5'5" and 135. :shrug: Like Niki said, depends on your body I guess.

But no way in hell is mama an 8. :p

I'm with you on both these. She has puppet mouth. I think a face lift would have fixed that as some one else said. Since we're all telling our height and weight, I'm 5'4" and 125 lbs and a size 8, so I don't know how Stevie could be an 8? Although clothes sizing is so f*cked up, who knows :shrug:

They have a website: http://www.powerplate.com/

ok let's break it down... hehe :p

stevie is 5'1...she is considered petite, correct?

do we have guestimates on her bust, waist and hip size?

If she is wearing an 8P, these are the rough estimates: 35.5/28/37.5

Completely clothed with all that layering, I can't tell...naked...hmmm...I do know, when I saw her she was the smallest little bitty bit.

I do know there is a lot of imagery/media out there that seems to have ladies trumpeting about their size 0, 2, etc. While perhaps Stevie may have stretched the truth on the 8 (though I tend to find believable), I am proud of her.

I 100% agree. At the very least, she's had an eye lift. Watch Lindsey's and Stevie's Soundstages back to back. The difference between her upper eyelids is monumental. But I suppose she doesn't count that as a facelift (which is technically true!).

Ummm yeah, if I had an extra $10,000 I would own one too LOL

I'm fat, 5'3" and I'm a size 8, so I don't see why Stevie couldn't be a size 8.

It's an eye lift!

I wonder if Stevie has beads and streamers hanging from her powerplate :D

Good point :nod:

Probably does. And hers probably has little crescent-moon appliqués all over it.

I think the machine looks really cool. But I just don't understand how someone can exercise on only one thing. Doesn't she get bored? I have to spice it up. If it's a gorgeous day, I'm going to go Rollerblade, and in the summer I'll swim...I would only use the treadmill/elliptical/power plate on the regular if it was cold outside.

But it's different when you're older, so really...good on her! :nod:

You can get a "personal" one that's cheaper (lowest seems to be 2k). But what they say about using gravity to increase the amount of fat you burn during the workout is the same thing they used to tell me about "bouncing" when I bought my trampoline, which was a LOT less expensive and probably no more and no less effective.

What she said about a tequila shot and the acid bubble made me laugh. I guess when your stomach changes over the years, you just cannot hang like you once did. We had been wondering about marijuana in other threads and I agree with the view that she wouldn't take something that would make her mellow just before a show. She wants something that gives her an adrenalin rush. If she used marijuana, it would probably be to calm down AFTER a performance.

Michele

uh...it vibrates...this takes 'personal massager' to a whole other level.. :p

It supposedly helps minimize cellulite as well. So perhaps Stevie will be in some hot pants before you know it. ;)

I can personally account for this....LOL. I was like Yay, Stevie gets acid reflux too!!:nod:

It's probably a good thing for her to use to exercise while on tour. I could see where your muscles would get used to it though. I'm guessing there are ways to make it more difficult.

My estimate is that she is larger than a size 8 and more than 130. I'm not saying she's fat. But she is not thin either. I've seen her up close a few times over the past month and, while her waist appears fairly thin, she's got some junk in the trunk (and hips). Not to mention that she is surely trussed up as hell underneath all those layers. Personally, I think all the layers make her look heavier.

And I agree, LB needs to pack on some pounds. Being so thin makes him look old.

See, now I would guess that you are a 6. If you're an 8, there is no way Stevie is an 8. Even if you have four inches on her. She just doesn't look that svelte to me. Again, I think the layers do her a disservice.

Puppet mouth? :lol: And, I don't believe that you are a size 8. You look like a size 2. There is no way you wear a bigger size than I do. I'm 5'4'', maybe 5'3''. Not quite sure. I usually hover just below 130 (128-129) and I wear a 6. I have a few 8's, but mostly 6's. I know different designers vary their sizes quite a bit, but you are way smaller than I am.

You've seen her naked? :laugh: Like I said above, her waist looks small but she looks thick through the hip/butt/thigh area to me. And when I made my original comment about not believing that she was 130 and a size 8, I kind of made the comparison based on myself. I have 2 or 3 inches on her but weigh approximately 130. I just think she looks heavier than I do.

I never said I wasn't proud of her. She looks great and I'm sure she worked really hard to lose the Klonopin weight. I just didn't think the dimensions were completely accurate. I don't blame her. If I were a rock star broadcasting my weight in an interview, I'd drop a few pounds and a size myself.



And, as a disclaimer, I'm not saying that a size 8, or larger, is fat. I don't want anyone to get all worked up. I'm just expressing my opinion based on my knowledge of what a size 8 looks like and what 130 pounds looks like.

:lol: :lol:

ouch. clearly that had a VERY negative impact upon her
time to move on Stevie, and join us here on the Ledge :p

:laugh: more like they will all be dead from skin cancer or be too leathery to want to go outside. totally the first thing i learnt in life, esp living here with with worse sun exposure in the world. wear sunscreen. don't go to bed wearing makeup. MOISTURIZE :D

i dont believe she's had a facelift either. no way. she'd look fake and unStevie
she's def had facial restoration and maaaaaaybe a browlift. but nothing too crazy

i'm 5'3 and even i don't weigh that lol Mama's always carried a bit of weight over the years but she's certainly not fat or really overweight and she IS older. but def looks better than on SYW. i would say she's about 135-140 ish [60-65kg if you're aussie :thumbsup:]

um...just an 'fyi'...she does not say she is 130. :shrug:

^Oh, ok, sorry. She, or the interviewer, said a size 8 though. I don't believe a size 8. JMO.

she may have stammered when asked... it is an unusual question IMO "hey what size are you?" "er,uh an 8!" :eek:

^As I said above, I don't blame her. I'd drop a size or two myself if asked during an interview. I'm just expressing my opinion that I don't believe it. But, I suppose Margi could sew in a tag saying whatever size Stevie wanted. In that case, I'd have her make all my stuff a size 2.

and that is totally fine and cool by me...not sure where you might be getting that I don't know it's your opinion...or somehow wouldn't want you to express it?? As well, you seemed to make a reference earlier that when I said "I'm proud of her" I was insinuating you or others weren't ("I never said I wasn't proud of her")...I'm a tad :confused:

anyway...no matter the size stevie looks prettygood...although I rather wish all that layering would cease to exist...add to that the 'slip' which by all appearances seems likely 'victorian knickers'...just a bit much IMO :shrug:

Stevie is very clever in the way she deflects questions. When asked, she rephrases and narrows the question to one she WANTS to answer and then she answers it, without having to lie.

So, if you ask her if she's had injections in general, she says, "Do you mean botox? No, Botox is horrible."

If you ask her if she's had any work done in general, she says, "Do you mean a facelift. No, I've never had a facelift.

Have you ever murdered anyone? "Do you mean have I stabbed anyone? No, I've never used a knife to kill anyone," and she cleverly avoids having to mention all the people she's shot and drowned.

Michele

You made me laugh Michele. The devil is in the details. Good point. :laugh: