Sallin, 80, poses for a portrait at home in Los Angeles. She is among a growing number of seniors making names for themselves on social media. — AP
NEW YORK: Joan MacDonald’s health was in shambles at age 71. She was overweight and on numerous medications with high cholesterol, rising blood pressure and kidney trouble.
Her daughter, a fitness coach, warned that she’d wind up an invalid if she didn’t turn things around. She did, hitting the gym for the first time and learning to balance her diet with the help of a brand new tool, an iPhone.
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Sallin, 80, poses for a portrait at home in Los Angeles. She is among a growing number of seniors making names for themselves on social media. — AP
Cima, 74, in Ithaca, New York. Cima, who goes by @styleinyour70s.withleslieb, is among a growing number of ‘grandfluencers’, folks 70 and up who are making names for themselves on social media. — Gregory B. Rudgers via AP
Cima, 74, taught herself to shoot and edit video for Instagram by watching YouTube tutorials. — Gregory B. Rudgers via AP
MacDonald, 75, in Tulum, Mexico. MacDonald is a hype beast for health with a bodybuilder’s physique and 1.4 million loyal followers on Instagram. — Michelle MacDonald via AP
Wayne, 78, in her garden in Suisun City, California. Wayne, with 130,500 followers amassed since joining in June 2020, owes her social media success to a teenage granddaughter. Her very first video, a garden tour, clocked 37,600 likes. — Kiki Rose via AP
Sallin (pic), a blogger and artist, has slowly built her following to 25,300 on Instagram. — AP
Sallin’s reach recently extended to the British Olympic gold-medal diver Tom Daley, who raved about her mother’s cheesecake recipe after his coach spotted it online and made it for her athletes and staff. — AP
Sallin, a lover of lipstick who focuses on cooking and beauty, also shares photos from her past and other adventures, like her turn last year in a vintage Spitfire high above the Cliffs of Dover. — AP
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