OW: There is Yvonne.
Come on up here, Yvonne.
Can you guess how old Yvonne is?
I can't.
We can't. Well, black people,
you just don't know.
She could be thirty-five,
she could be sixty-five. Who knows?
Because, you know, black don't crack.
But anyway, take a look at this. Take a look.
Yvonne Swann: My name is Yvonne Swann.
I'm seventy years old.
I always felt that age was just a number.
I can't say what seventy feels
like because I don't feel seventy or I don't
feel sixty actually.
I don't feel fifty.
I'm in love. I'm in love with myself,
I'm in love with everything
that's going on in my life.
I've been single since 1958 and
I think it was a real
advantage for me in terms of finding
out who I am.
I have one son, Larry, who's fifty years old.
And when we go out, guys think that he's my date.
I live in New York and it's great.
I just come downstairs and
I'm in the middle of everything.
My transportation is my bicycle or walking,
which I love to do.
And I rollerblade.
In my home, when the weather's bad,
I have the Pilates bench.
I also have belly dance tapes.
A couple of times a week, I do belly dancing.
I don't have to put makeup on every day,
but I always put moisturizer
and moisturize the whole body.
I try to eat sensibly and
so if I have dessert one evening,
I'm not going to have it the next evening.
I love to have a martini
or a glass of wine with dinner.
Compared to ten years ago, I feel marvelous.
I feel more confident, I feel more beautiful
and I think it's because I've opened inwardly
that I just feel the world's
my oyster.
OW: Wow. [APPLAUSE]
Wow. I was only kidding when
I said you could be thirty-five
or sixty-five. I did not know. No.
Even- let's just say this.
I was only kidding,
because I was just saying, you know,
black people, we have the whole melanin
thing in the skin and so we age well,
for the most part.
But even the Dove women are in awe of you.
I could see that. Seventy years old?
Seven- seven oh.
ES: Yes.
OW: Seven oh.
ES: Yes.
OW: Seven oh. Seven oh.
ES: That's what it looks like in 2007.
OW: Okay. So what is- what is the secret?
What is the key to your youthful appearance?
ES: Well, it's interesting because I found
myself at the age of twenty-
one getting a divorce and with a son.
And I just decided that I didn't like the way
I was brought up and so on
and I was going to re-raise myself.
And I was going to-
OW: Thank you, mama.
Thank you. That's good.
ES: Bring- have high life condition in
my life and energy and I was introduced
to the transcendental meditation technique.
OW: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ES: And it opened the door for me seeing my
inner bliss. And from then on,
it's just been up, up, up.
OW: Really?
ES: It's just so incredible how you- everything
I do is with passion and excitement and joy.
And I- I- I create my environment. And-
OW: Well, so far both you and Elaine are
talking about the same thing.
She found it through Taekwondo,
you're saying for you it started with
meditation and a decision to live
your life with a sense of passion.
Which is very key thing, I think,
we're hearing here today, different than any
other show we've done with, you know,
women looking youthful, is that both of
you are talking about what
comes from the inside.
And I just had an epiphany moment.
I think if you're miserable,
if you're in marriages that don't work,
you're in relationships that don't work,
you're in a job that brings you down-
That that is a- that is an ager.
That ages you. But when you're living your
life with passion, you're doing what you
really want to do- I don't know if we can
look like this, but okay.
Pretty amazing, pretty amazing.
ES: Yes. Yes. And the important thing is
that I'd like to tell everyone-
moisturize, moisturize, moisturize because-
OW: Because? [APPLAUSE]
ES: I mean-
OW: Because?
ES: Every morning, I get up- before I open the door
to pick up my New York Times, I have moisturizer on.
OW: Really?
ES: Yes.
OW: Okay. Well, if that's the key,
then let's go buy the moisturizer.
Thank you, Yvonne.
Thank you very much. Thank you.