Hello lovelies,
Today, I will remember Betty White and discuss her anti-ageing secrets and tips for a long, happy, and healthy life.

Betty White first appeared on television in the late 1930s. In the 1950s, she starred on Life with Elizabeth and continued to be a prominent TV personality by appearing on discussion, game, and variety shows. Next a successful tenure on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s, White co-starred in another big comedy, The Golden Girls, in the following decade. White joined the cast of Hot in Cleveland in 2010 and became the oldest host of Saturday Night Live that year, after a Facebook-fueled drive to get her on the show.

Betty Marion White Ludden, a comedic actress, was born on January 17, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a homemaker, raised her as their only child. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was two years old.

White began her career as a production assistant for a local television station. She debuted her first television series, Life with Elizabeth, in the early 1950s, which she co-created with George Tibbles. White told The Hollywood Reporter, “He authored, and I produced.” “I was one of Hollywood’s first female producers.” The notion of the show was inspired by a sketch she had previously performed on local television.

White continued to work on television, appearing on shows like The United States Steel Hour and Petticoat Junction as a guest star. She was also a favourite of talk-show host Jack Paar, who frequently featured her on the Tonight Show, and she appeared on game shows like Password on a regular basis. In 1961, she met her third husband, Allen Ludden, on the show.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White’s next television series, gave her a huge boost in her career. White, who played Sue Ann Nivens, demonstrated that beneath her charming face was a biting wit. Her character worked in a Minneapolis television newsroom with the show’s star, Mary Tyler Moore. Sue Ann could be counted on to make witty, yet heartbreaking, jokes at Moore’s expense when she wasn’t wooing her male colleagues. For her contribution on the show, White received two Emmy Awards.

White, along with co-stars Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty, played the innocent and naive Rose Nylund on the classic 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, in stark contrast to her Sue Ann role. The show followed the lives of four senior female companions, and its popularity demonstrated that there was a market for shows with older characters. During its seven seasons on the air, the show was consistently among the top-rated shows, and it received multiple honours, including another Emmy Award for White.

White’s career took off again in 2010 after a long period of steady work. During that year’s Super Bowl, she starred in a hilarious candy bar commercial that rapidly became a fan favourite. May White became the oldest person to host Saturday Night Live thanks to a Facebook campaign. She explained to Newsweek that she was hesitant to do the show at first “It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever done. It was a lot of fun, but it was also a difficulty.”

White also made a comeback to series television in 2010 with a role on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland, opposite Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick. She was initially just signed on for the pilot, but she later became a full member of the cast. “It’s simply a fantastic spectacle. The girls had such a terrific chemistry “She told Newsweek about it.

She also presented Betty White’s Off Their Rockers in addition to her job in Hot in Cleveland. From 2012 through 2017, this hidden camera show showcased a seasoned group of merry pranksters that played jokes on younger generations. In 2012, White was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the show.

I’m not sure why I’m being included in this Fabulous at Every Age issue, because I’m not fabulous—I’m just old. But I’m the luckiest old woman on the planet because I’m blessed with good health and energy. I don’t have any secrets for staying sprightly, but people just keep coming to me with great projects and I can’t say no.
From the start, I knew I had square jawbones and all the things they tell you are not photogenic. I wanted to look like Lana Turner, and I just didn’t. But I did do one modeling job: It was for Sears, Roebuck, and I got 50 cents for modeling a dress. My salary went up from then on.

I’m afraid that my style hasn’t changed much, ever. I’m still wearing stuff I wore 40 years ago, mostly slacks and sweaters. I don’t wear skirts very often. I wish I would because I’ve got pretty good legs, but you just get so comfortable in slacks, so I have them in every color of the rainbow. When there’s an event I have this wonderful assistant, Janice, who finds me things. She’s very diplomatic. She’ll bring something in and say, “Why don’t you wear this? It’s very much in style.” And I don’t know what’s in style for anything, so I say yes.
People take a very dim view of aging not just in show business but in almost every business. They’re always looking for the young people coming up, which I understand. But make yourself as useful as possible so that they’ll find a place for you too! And don’t complain—try to accentuate the positive rather than the negative. If you’re complaining, you’re not fun to be around, and fun is the name of the game.
I don’t need much sleep, and I always have trouble getting myself into bed at night. I have a beautiful golden retriever, Pontiac—he’s sitting here right now—and when it gets past midnight he walks over to the stairs and looks back at me like, “Are you ever coming up here?” But if I get four good hours, then I’m fine. I’ve been that way all my life.

I don’t eat anything special. French fries. Hot dogs if I can get ’em. And I’m not a big breakfast eater. I’ll have a sandwich at lunch and then come home, and Pontiac and I have a vodka on the rocks and then our dinner. You can’t get much better.
Speaking of pets, I have a fan club called Bets’ Pets that was started more than 40 years ago. It still has a few of its charter members, and I’ve become close friends with them. But I’ve also had some crazy fans. Every once in a while somebody wants you to sign something weird. One time this rather heavyset man came up to me with a pen, and he pulled up his shirt and there’s this big tummy. And he said, “Sign my belly, oh, please, sign my belly.” After that I had to make a rule: I don’t sign body parts.
My mom said to never lie about your age because you’ll forget what you told one person and get mixed up. My age has been published over the years, so I could no more say I’m younger than 92 than fly to the moon. But it’s amazing—past a certain age, you can get away with murder. You can do anything and people will say, “Well, the poor old soul, she’s … you know …”