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Linda Lusardi shocked fans on Wednesday when she took to Instagram to reveal her age.
The former glamour model looked like she had barely aged a day as she showed off her youthful looks in a selfie to mark her birthday.
Linda, who has over 130,000 followers on Instagram, captioned her post: ‘Well, I can’t quite believe I turn 66 today and I am officially a pensioner.
‘I don’t know where the time has gone. They do say time flies when you’re having fun so I must’ve had a brilliant time as it feels like only yesterday I was turning 25.’
Fans couldn’t believe her age as they wrote in the comments: ‘What. No freaking way. Linda you look stunning for that age. Sorry finding it hard to believe. Many happy returns.
Ex-glamour model Linda Lusardi shocked fans on Wednesday when she took to Instagram to reveal that she turned 66 that day
She has been married to soap actor Samuel Kane, 55, since 1998 and the pair have two children: Linda’s lookalike daughter Lucy, 28, and son Jack, 25
Linda, who has over 130,000 followers on Instagram, captioned her post: ‘Well, I can’t quite believe I turn 66 today and I am officially a pensioner’
Linda’s career began in the ’70s as a Page 3 girl and in the years since she has enjoyed roles as a television presenter and an actress (Linda pictured in 1982)
‘Happy birthday Linda, hope you are having a lovely day. You certainly don’t look like a pensioner.’
‘Happy birthday Linda you haven’t changed since you were 25’ and ‘Happy birthday to my teenage crush back in the eighties and still cannot believe how great you are looking and just love you so much!’
‘One of the best looking pensioners, happy birthday’.
Linda’s career began in the ’70s as a Page 3 girl and in the years since she has enjoyed roles as a television presenter and an actress.
She married soap actor Samuel Kane, 55, in 1998 and the pair have two children: Linda’s lookalike daughter Lucy, 28, and son Jack, 25.
In June, the star credited intermittent fasting for keeping her trim and toned everlastingly youthful.
Fans couldn’t believe her age as they wrote in the comments: ‘What. No freaking way. Linda you look stunning for that age’
In June, the star credited intermittent fasting for keeping her trim and toned everlastingly youthful – she does not eat before 1 pm or after 10 pm
Linda and her family on New Year’s Day 2024
Linda said she doesn’t restrict what she eats, nor does she go to the gym, but she doesn’t let a morsel of food pass her lips before 1pm and after 10pm every day.
Linda told Best magazine: ‘I’m an advocate of intermittent fasting – I don’t normally eat until 1pm each day and I stop by 10pm, so you have a good period where your body can process the food.
‘It quite suits me as I’m not very good at giving things up, I like a glass of prosecco and an Indian or a Chinese [takeaway].
‘And I only eat when I’m hungry – some days I go until two or three o’clock.’
Linda also said she makes sure she has plenty of fruit and vegetables, lots of fish, and only eats meat once a week ‘with a Sunday dinner’.
She has said in the past that she has not had any plastic surgery, but has admitted to regular ‘tweakments’.
Linda said this year that she was ‘looking forward’ to getting her state pension when she turned 66 after ‘all those years of paying in’.
She said she doesn’t feel her age, but observed that today’s pensioners look better on the whole because they keep themselves healthy.
Fans of intermittent fasting claim it is a healthy way to boost energy and shed fat from the body, with Dr Michael Mosley, the late Mail health guru, one such advocate.
Celebrities including Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen are among those who practise an extreme form of intermittent fasting, which involves eating just one meal a day.