Smokey Robinson opens up about aging gracefully, praising Martha Stewart’s viral swimsuit cover and sharing how he still feels 50 at 83. The music legend talks self-care, staying sexy, and even says he’d pose shirtless to show older people can still turn heads.
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00:00you're 83 Martha Stewart recently you know everyone was talking about her Sports Illustrated
00:08magazine cover I haven't seen it but I gotta get it and she looks great and and you know there's
00:15some people hate on it whatever but she looks great and I wonder at you know you're up you're
00:2083 and you're still doing your thing you still singing about you know gasms and all this you
00:25know like do people just like have a misconception of of what older people could do I think so I
00:33think but I think it's up to the individual you know you have to take care of yourself I'm 83 but
00:38I'm telling you man I feel 50 right yeah the most you know and you just have to take care of yourself
00:44it's your other job once you turn 40 your other job is taking care of yourself physically and
00:49emotionally so you have to and if you don't then you're gonna suffer whatever the consequences are
00:55I'm not doing that you know but I try to do that you know you you see a 81 year old woman you know
01:01in a swimsuit on a magazine cover does that say times are changing oh yeah I take my hat off to
01:07her I commend her man that's beautiful I gotta get that I want to see that I want to see that that's
01:16right well well listen man you know do you think there should be more like content like that for
01:22older for older Americans who are who want to see you know they want to see each other in that light
01:28you know like they want to see each other in a sexy way we live in the world of you yeah we live in a
01:34world where they use young people for everything that there is especially for advertising yeah sure we
01:39live in that world and it doesn't give people who are senior citizens a chance to show themselves yeah
01:46but that's just what we live but you know there's Martha Stewart she hit it on the head I was gonna
01:53say you know hey you know you're still doing the that uh you know talking talking singing sexy to the
01:59ladies you know I wondered I wondered would you ever do something like that you know like you know
02:05shirtless like magazine for the ladies I would do that yes oh yeah I would do that because I'm proud of
02:12the fact that I still feel like I feel so yeah dude just to you know show you show people that it can be done