Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman, 49, reveals the mirror trick she uses to ‘train’ herself to get used to her aging face – and refuses to get Botox

Cathy Newman has shared some advice for women who are feeling the social pressures of growing older.

Speak with the timesthe Newsnight presenter, who has just published her third book The Ladder, the 49-year-old said she will never get Botox.

And she has revealed her technique for dealing with the normal aging process, and the one her own face is going through, as she resists the pressure to give in to invasive anti-aging procedures.

Although Cathy doesn’t see herself on television as she writes in The Ladder, she advised women to learn to accept their faces as they get older by looking in the mirror.

She wrote, “Train yourself to look at your reflection and see beyond the lines.”

The refusal to indulge in anti-aging procedures is a bold move, as female presenters have traditionally extended their careers by looking younger than they are thanks to surgeries and Botox.

But speaking to the Times about how a “normally aging 49-year-old female face…is becoming an anomaly on screen,” Cathy revealed that as she approaches 50, she’s been “thinking about aging a lot lately.” ‘. .

She added: ‘For men, 50 can be a milestone that brings gravity. But when a woman turns 50, when you’re on TV, you think, “when are you going to get plastic surgery?”

‘Everyone has insecurities about how they look. But the bags and wrinkles are also 30 years of wisdom, experience and life. And that’s what I love about being fifty. If women want that [surgery] that’s their choice. But it’s definitely not my choice. I would like to look good when I get old, but when I get old, I get old too.’

However, she added that she has “really good” lighting at home and so she may leave the house thinking she looks great, “but maybe it doesn’t matter.”

Cathy has worked at Channel 4 News since 2006 and became its first female presenter in 2011.

She also hosts a Friday evening radio program for the Times called The Ladder (where she got the name for her book), in which she interviews successful women at the top of her field.

The book is described as a ‘distillation’ of the show, which includes interviews with women from diverse careers such as Angela Rayner, Davina McCall and Mary Beard.

The journalist has written her third book, called The Ladder, the same name as her Times Friday radio show

Conversely, she may be best known to many for her 2018 Channel 4 interview with Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

During the 30-minute interview, Ms. Newman questioned the University of Toronto psychology professor about his radical views on gender disparities in the workplace and the limits of freedom of expression.

The exchange has since been viewed more than a million times on Channel 4 News’ YouTube page.

Following the fiery clash, Channel 4 called in security experts after Cathy received death threats and abuse online.

Sick messages posted online after the interview included “RIP Cathy Newman” and “Cathy Newman, we know where you live.”

The mother-of-two was also called a ‘b****’ in more than 500 posts and was the target of other obscene misogynistic messages.

Cathy Newman says male colleagues like Jon Snow haven’t faced the same level of trolling she has

Critical comments were expected, but the death threats caused serious concern. Ben de Pear, editor of Channel 4 News, condemned the trolls, calling the abuse a ‘terrible indictment of the times we live in’.

He tweeted: ‘Our on-screen journalists at Channel 4 News expect to be held to account for their journalism, but the level of virulent, misogynistic abuse, nastiness and threats to Cathy Newman is an unacceptable response to a robust and engaging debate. ‘

The journalist suffered even more trouble yesterday when her then 13-year-old daughter found a pornographic mock-up of her mother with Dr. Peterson on Instagram.

Speaking about the incident to the Times, she said she remembers talking about trolling with her old on-screen partner, Jon Snow, who was surprised by the meme because he “didn’t get something like that.”

Cathy Newman’s Ladder (HarperCollins £18.99) is available now.