A woman of 41 can never hold on to a young boy of 25?

UK Daily Mail's Amanda Platell's take on Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's relationship. An interesting read. Check it out below...

Announcing her divorce from her cheating husband, Demi Moore said: ‘As a woman, a mother and a wife, there are certain vows I hold sacred.’

Did she mean the vows to keep her body young and her plastic surgeon’s number by her side?

The end of her six-year marriage after repeated allegations of Ashton Kutcher’s infidelity comes as no surprise. From the very beginning, despite the Hollywood spin of the perfect match that was put out daily on her Twitter feed, this was a car crash waiting to happen.

Not because Mr Demi Moore was serially unfaithful, but because a woman of 41 - the age she was when she and Ashton got together - was never going to hold on to a handsome young boy of 25.

Marriages with an age gap can work, but usually when the couples are older and only when the two people involved behave like grown-ups.


But this is more than just another Hollywood break-up.

Demi Moore was a totem, a standard bearer for women of a certain age who believed they could have it all. She was the ultimate Cougar, the older woman who could snare any young man she wanted.

Age did not constrain her, not with a cosmetic surgeon and countless millions at her beck and call. She did not grow older as we grew older.

She was living proof you could hold back the years. Except, it turns out that she couldn’t. As yesterday’s divorce announcement proves.


This is a salutary moment for those of us who, at some level, have bought into the modern myth of eternal youth — the notion that you can pay for a new face, new body or even a new baby when you’re too old to have one.


It shows that, however rich you are, you cannot defy nature. Demi reportedly spent nearly £1million on cosmetic surgery procedures - but it still wasn’t enough to buy her a lasting relationship.

Successful marriages are mostly born of a shared history, of raising children together, of memories, the joys and the hardships, and the pleasure of looking at your partner in the morning and being able to count each other’s wrinkles and laughter lines.


In the end, Ashton preferred the excitement of sharing a hot tub with a bunch of groupies half Demi’s age (and having sex with at least one of them afterwards) to joining his ageing wife in her desperate search for spiritual fulfillment.


There isn’t a surgeon in the world who can change that.
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