'Women still remain relevant as they get older'

As she releases her first Christmas album, superstar Cher speaks to OK! about ageing, family life and her love of the festive season

-  SAMANTHA FRASER

OK, will someone PLEASE tell me… when will I feel OLD? This is ridiculous, I keep hearing these numbers, but I honestly can’t understand them,” tweeted pop superstar Cher, when she turned 77 in May. And as she chats to OK! about her new album, family festivities and Christmas memories, we’re just as awestruck. She may tell us she is “cranky and teary because I’ve been working really hard” but she’s a funny and feisty ball of energy.

Talking about ageing in the public eye, the singer and actress tells us, “With men, it doesn’t seem to matter nearly as much as it does for women. You see men in films and they’re craggy-faced and they’re old, but no one seems to mind it, but you didn’t see women like that.

“But now women are able to get older and still be relevant. You just had this sell-by date – it really didn’t matter what kind of person you were. I mean, it helped if you looked better, but women lost their value starting at a certain age, which is kind of bulls**t.”