Another recent candid Stevie shot...
 

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I love the red....

Thanks for posting - love the red, love the hat...poor Stevie though- looks like the inflammation in the hands is bad ...Quercetin!!

Whatever that red thing is, it's fabulous. Who else could pull that off at her age?!

bein a guy that thinks stevie from the 80's is freakin hot, and idolizes the 80's stevie, its kinda sad to see her gettin older.

But you know what they say about time making you bolder I guess...

Well the article says this pic is from 2009, and we just saw some candids, so i'd say she looks better now than when this photo was taken, but i love the outfit sooooo much!Good to see her in something other than black:nod:

Yeah, you might not want to wear rings on every finger -- or bells on your reeboked toes either, for that matter.

Michele

Jesus, this is an awful picture. I love her to death, but I must say her hands and face do look rather old in this pic. Granted, she doesn't have much make-up on and if she does have arthritis it may have been acting up. She looked soo much better just 9 months before this tho. Her hands and her face looked 15 years younger! It must be all that LB stress!

Wow... her hands seriously look like my 88 year old Grandmother's hands who was a farm worker! 40 years of hard tambo shakin gone wrong... :p

:eek::eek::eek:
oh dear
those hands are terrible

but this is obviously NOT her normal hand state
coz if this was taken last year
her hands were looking PRET-TAY good
like in the book signing pic
and on tour ....

maybe it was a reeeeally hot day
and mixed with her meds (if she's on ANY) ......

i really really love what she's wearing *heart*
and she doesn't look too bad

This apparent arthritis has me more worried than anything else. She's been pictured wearing a LOT of arm braces lately.......

:/

People with comments about her hands are just ridiculous.

It's just my opinion, but the repetitiousness of the hand comments seem a little bit in bad taste.

I wouldn't cut off the circulation to my fingers like that, when they're swollen. Somewhat dangerous.

Michele

For her age, she is looking good. I love the red top and it looks like she has lost some weight or just looks thinner without all of the layered clothes she wears on stage. Hope to look that good in 10 years!!!

It was December of 2009 in Australia.

It's just hard for me to accept that she is aging. Maybe for a while I was being delusional to think that she won't change, and oh she will be ageless, timeless in my finery...

Maybe I should just stop watching the White Winged Dove performance so much.

Well anyway, this photo has disillusioned me. :(

Good. Welcome back.

Thank you :) :rolleyes:

as for her hands, i agree with michelej-wtf was she thinking, wearing all of those rings? maybe she ate too much sodium the night before, slept with her rings on and now can't get them off :lol:

love the red, love the crescent moon. i guess it just strikes me as odd that mama nicks has been seen so much, without make up, lately. i'm not saying "I" care, just that stevie has always been so concerned about the way she looks (never going back on stage until she lost all the weight, etc), so it surprises me.

it also depresses me that she's getting older. i dread "the day"....

on edit: is that a scrunchie?

hmm. Stevie needs some Boniva or something for her ostoperosis. She's shrinking and getting a back hump!

I was thinking back to the last concerts I saw on the last tour. We never really saw her hands. She usually has on black gloves. This is probably why, and why it is such a surprise to some. Of course, I think she looks great. I hope to look that well when I'm her age. I have to remind myself she is in her 60s now.

is that a glimpse of upper arm I see? Man, she hasn't shown those in public for a long time! I think she wore the top in black for one of her Soundstage promo gigs. Anyway, she looks great. I'm liking the sheer fabrics!! :D

I wonder what's with the things on her arms. They don't look supportive enough to be functional as braces, and even if they were, they aren't atatched to anything to give traction. I wonder if she has a port for IV treatments for her RA, and she doesn't want anyone to see it. Else, maybe she got a bunch of tattoos and doesn't want anyone to see it. Else, maybe varicose veins.
What else could it be..:shrug:

I think so, too. I like her here.

Stevie's so L.A.!

This is one of those threads that contain comments that baffle me to my mutha-@#$ core.

I'm in the minority here, but I think she looks absolutely great. I don't care for the hands.

Totally agreed! I made a similar comment when the last recent photo was posted. She's aging and there's nothing any of us can do about it other than accept it. And let's face it, we're all getting older. It's a part of life. I think the issues for me are a) sometimes I forget the fact that she is a real person (that eats, sleeps, and ****s) instead of this timeless fairytale persona I've created in my mind and b) I have my own issues with looks and getting older as I was raised in an environment where aging gracefully is not exactly embraced.
On a final note I almost feel bad that us, her most dedicated fans, are critiquing her looks and not always from a positive point of view. Doesn't she get enough of this from the media? I know it's true that she's looking older (as anyone would at 62) and it's fun to note the changes but I just can't deal with "she's looking old and her hands look freaky" type comments. Maybe I'm just in denial...

Yes, I know what you are saying about having issues with getting older. It's one of my biggest fears for some reason, and I'm still quite young. I think she is partly to blame for the creation of the fairytale persona though haha, what with all this talk of gypsies and castles. I think a good majority of us are in denial, however some may be in denial that they are in denial :nod:

One more thing - that look in her eyes will never change, nor will her soul. She'll always be my enchanted angel even if she has wrinkles like a prune and she's using a walker. What I see is Stevie's pure essence to the core and it's magical. What's outside is secondary. I guess that means I love her or something ;).

I personally aim to embrace the day when she zooms past in a wheelchair with her chiffon streamers! Still wearing the boots, obviously..

Tbh, the only place I've ever heard anyone mention that she looks old is here on The Ledge.. :)

I don't think people are giving her grief as much as they are a bit startled by the stark difference between her on/off-stage looks. Of course we all expect and want her to look exactly the same- whether she is singing "Rhiannon" on stage or stopping for allergy pills at Wahlgreens. Nobody is saying Stevie is less of a person for it; if anything, people get concerned for her if there is any sign that she is not well or becoming frail.

That being said... either the hat OR the mock sleeves. But not BOTH. That getup is a bit too biker chick for Mama; it's definitely something one of Jesse James' ho-bags would wear. But I am liking the red top with the asymmetrically dropped waist. It's stylish and flattering without being costume-y.

As much as I like to rib her, I totally dig the entire getup. You don't see many 60 something women being that daring and having that much fun with clothing... so kudos to Stevie!! :thumbsup:

Right, thanks for pointing that out :wavey:

I thought about this before but is it just me or does Stevie have really big ears? Maybe they've been stretched a bit by all the heavy earrings but still...

This is was bugs the hell out of me is that I cannot figure out what she is covering up! She has got to be covering something up, and its not a brace like you said. As for an IV port for RA, usually IV drugs used to treat RA are only delivered thru an IV for a few hours every eight weeks or so after the first few initial weeks, so I don't think she'd have an IV port there seeing as she has been covering them up for months now, yet there would be no need for a port if you aren't getting IV drugs for another 8 weeks, nor would she have to cover up the bruises. Also, if she did have an IV port, usually ones for long term use are in the torso I believe. Varicose veins could be it. Maybe she had surgery on one or both of her arms? Or maybe she has diabetes and she doesn't like pricking her fingers so she does her forearms and wants to cover up all the nasty blue and red prickmarks! I know the last one is a long shot, but I am a diabetic and my forearms can get way gross looking if I prick them too much. Maybe she secretly cuts herself. Or her dogs scratch the **** out of her arms! Or Karen is secretly a dominatrix and Stevie only lets her bite her arms. All in all tho, I'm going with tattoos. :thumbsup:

Maybe she's trying to catch Jesse's eyes, which also means the people who guessed the arm bands are covering up tattoos are most definitely correct.

Michele

I never understood how anyone could cheat on Sandra Bullock, but if Stevie Nicks was throwing me a line... see ya sandra!

I think her arms are getting old, and the skin is sagging a little and she's just covering that up...that's what I believe about the arms. Same with her hands and why she wears gloves on stage now.

If you look at any photos of Stevie's Dad, she TOTALLY has his ears......kinda long... :nod:

Ok this was too funny as I was reading it :laugh:

First of all I doubt Stevie shops for allergy pills at Walgreens, but Id love it if she did. And I think she looks great in the picture for it being a candid shot. Everything but those hands, its very sad to see those hands look so frail.