‘I’m ageing, and I can’t control it’

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Hope Bonarcher admits she struggles with the impact of growing older

I feel old and ugly. There, I said it. I’m probably not supposed to write that in a Christian magazine, but it’s reality, as I feel it, captured here in black and white. Maybe I’m too self-critical – my background in modelling, the decades of being visualised in terms of physical presentation on a monetary scale, has me laser-focused on the outside. 

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