Pressure about looks eases as you age, says Carol Kirkwood

CAROL KIRKWOOD, the BBC weather presenter, has said that she feels “no pressure whatsoever” about her appearance.

The 61-year-old Scot said one benefit of getting older was that you cared less about what others think.

She told Prima magazine: “I feel no pressure whatsoever about how I look. I’m just into my 60s, but I think the positive is that you care less about what people think of you. You hear people’s opinions, but you don’t take them on board as much as when you’re younger.”

Kirkwood, who competed in Strictly

Come Dancing in 2015, added that she makes identical resolutions year on year, but never sticks to them.

She said: “My resolutions are always the same – the first one is to get fit and the second one is to lose weight.

“I fail by the second day of January on both. There’s always so much leftover food. And then I’m going to start again on Monday – but I never do!”

Kirkwood, also a successful fiction author, said it “will be nice to retire one day and focus on my writing” but at the moment she is embracing her dual jobs. She added: “At the moment, I have two careers running in parallel and they’re both full-time, so it’s time-consuming.

But I also love both of them and, if you want something done, ask a busy person. I can’t imagine I’ll be doing the weather when I’m 90 though!”

Kirkwood’s role as a weather presenter means she is often faced with the realities of climate change, and is sometimes distressed by the images she sees.

She said: “Our weather is quickly becoming more extreme with climate change. More floods, higher temperatures. I’m there to impart a message (presenting the weather), so I have to be factual and get on with it, but, when I see the pictures of the aftermath of wildfires or flooding, I can’t help but feel emotional.”