WALKING down the street, a gentleman stopped Sharola Head in her tracks.
“You’re so beautiful,” he exclaimed.
For most women it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
But for Sharola, who moved to Winslow, Bucks., from Fiji in 2012, it’s a commonplace occurrence.
“I’m regularly told I’m beautiful and I don’t look my age,” she said. “In fact – even though I will be 50 in October – I still get IDed on a regular basis for buying alcohol and entering pubs and clubs.
“It last happened when I went to mark a recent birthday with friends.”
Sharola also recounted how, stopped by a TV journalist, he interviewed her “simply to tell her how beautiful she was.”
“That’s the only reason he wanted to talk,” she said.
I’m regularly told I’m beautiful and I don’t look my age
Sharola Head
“And it’s not just men. I went to a fundraiser at a hospice and a young woman came up to me.
She said ‘I just wanted to say there is something about you that says ‘wow’.”
She was also stopped on an aeroplane by an Australian woman who said “you’re a true English beauty” – something she laughs about as she’s not originally from the UK.
The mum-of-three, who has even been stopped and asked for autographs in Costco in H&M on separate occasions by people who thought she was Halle Berry, said she believed beauty was a byproduct of confidence.
“People say to me that when I enter a room I make a boring atmosphere lively,” she said.
“It leads to men paying me compliments.
“This happens especially at events like Ascot where very rich men want a beautiful girlfriend.”
She added men “slid into her DMs” on Instagram and Facebook
“Some are very rich, some are just desperate for a partner,” she said.
But she’s faithful to her husband of 11-years who she met in Fiji.
“He looks like he’s in his 40s too although he’s 67,” she said.
But unfortunately not everyone was kind.
“I’ve experienced jealousy and some women think I’m after their men – I’m not,” the NHS worker said.
“But I have a group of friends who accept how I look and are brilliant.”
I’ve experienced jealousy and some women think I’m after their men – I’m not
Sharola Head
Asked to describe her beauty regime which kept her looking so youthful, she said. “I don’t buy expensive makeup or cream and lotions and I have no makeup days.
“I’m going through the menopause so I take multivitamins.
“But I would never wear joggers or hoodies. I would look like a lowlife. Woman can be glamorous in anything – but not joggers.”
