Isn’t it weird about Russian women? They’re almost all amazingly beautiful when they’re young but then they get older and some still look amazing and most others end up looking like Ernest Borgnine.
It’s the same way in Sicilian villages...especially if the women are widows. They’re all old, short, stout, dressed in black. Many will sit in a chair on the sidewalk outside there house...facing the wall! That’s just the custom if they’re widows.
Young Italian women generally start out beautiful.