Want to pull a Tuck Everlasting and quaff the elixir of immortality? If you said "yes," you were clearly 10 years old when you read it and generally missed the entire point of that classic . . . but happily, we do have some don't-fret-your-age news for you.
Women who have children later in life are more likely reach their 95th birthday.
Seriously! Researchers at Boston University came to this surprising conclusion upon studying women who lived past 95, comparing them to women who died much younger. The results said a lot. Apparently, ladies who popped kiddos out past 33 were twice as likely to live to 95 than those who had their last child by 29.
This by no means suggests that having a baby past 33 will guarantee you a spot as Oldest Bad Bitch in The Guinness Book of World Records. Rather, the evidence seems to suggest that merely being capable of giving birth in one's late thirties is a sign of awesome long-life genes.
(Of course, there's always the theory that children keep us young. Case in point: Michelle Duggar, mother of 19. Lady is mighty close to 50, but the—infuriating—lack of crows feet and other inevitable wrinkles suggests otherwise. Like a pact with the devil.)
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