Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now

MacMan · #1 03-31-2009, 10:12 AM

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."

MacMan · #2 03-31-2009, 10:17 AM

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!"

BTFLCHLD · #3 03-31-2009, 10:20 AM

These are great MacMan...thanks

Sanne2 · #4 03-31-2009, 10:24 AM

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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"

bikerchic · #5 03-31-2009, 10:43 AM

OMG now her dog is a rock star

gold-dusted · #6 03-31-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MacMan

Stevie Nicks: This Is What 60 Looks Like Now
no facelift

NO facelift?? I doubt....

DEAN KARR · #7 03-31-2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MacMan

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!"

Good posting for sure.

GODDESS6 · #8 03-31-2009, 10:56 AM

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~

camchristo · #9 03-31-2009, 11:08 AM

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.

David · #10 03-31-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

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.

jannieC · #11 03-31-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

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.

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.

BTFLCHLD · #12 03-31-2009, 11:28 AM

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.

bellagypsy79 · #13 03-31-2009, 12:07 PM

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.

michelej1 · #14 03-31-2009, 12:19 PM

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

Nico · #15 03-31-2009, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by camchristo

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

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.