1895, Zhanna is 20 years old
The official world record for life expectancy belongs to a French woman. Jeanne Kalman. She lived 122 years and 164 days (1875 - 1997).
Birth certificate of Jeanne Kalman
Jeanne Louise Calment has seen a lot in her life. By the time construction of the Eiffel Tower was completed, she was 14 years old. That same year, she met Vincent Van Gogh, who came to buy fabrics at her father's store. She later recalled that she did not like Van Gogh at all: “He was dirty, poorly dressed and gloomy.”
At the age of 21, she married her second cousin Fernand Calment, a wealthy store owner, which allowed Jeanne not to work, but to practice her hobbies: tennis, cycling, swimming, skating, hunting with her husband, piano and going to the opera.
At the same age, Zhanna started smoking. They say that all her life Madame limited herself to a couple of cigarettes a day.
1897, Zhanna is 22 years old
When World War I broke out, Jeanne's husband's business survived the post-war depression, but was killed by a dessert made from spoiled canned cherries. Fernand Calment died in 1942, four years before their golden wedding. In addition to her husband, Jeanne was survived by her daughter Yvonne, who died in 1934 from pneumonia, and her only grandson, Frederic, who died in 1960 due to a motorcycle accident.
1915, Zhanna is 40 years old
Jeanne attended Hugo's funeral. At 114, she starred in the Van Gogh documentary Vincent and Me, becoming the oldest actress in the world. Jeanne Kalman also became the oldest patient of the surgeons, after hip surgery at 115 years old.
1935, Zhanna is 60 years old
Zhanna quit smoking at the age of 117, and this was not due to her health, but to the fact that by that time Zhanna, who had almost lost her sight, found it unpleasant to ask someone to light a cigarette every time.
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She lived independently without outside help until she was 110 years old (!) and only then moved to a shelter.
There was a funny legal curiosity in the life of Jeanne Kalman. When she was 90 years old, she no longer had heirs, and she entered into a life annuity agreement with her lawyer, 47-year-old Andre-François Raffrey. After the death of the old woman, her house was to be transferred to him, and until that moment he paid her monthly rent (about 400 dollars). The market value of the apartments has already been paid for the first 10 years! As you probably already guessed, Raffrey never received the coveted housing. He paid annuity to Jeanne for 30 years until he himself died at 77. Then, according to the law, his widow continued payments. Ultimately, the Raffreys were overpaid by more than double the market price for the apartments.
By the way, the lawyer’s widow spoke very warmly about Zhanna: “She was a person! My husband had a wonderful relationship with Madame Calment.”
In one of the interviews, the correspondent said to her when parting: “See you!” Maybe next year...” To which Kalman said: “Why not? You don’t look that bad!”
When Jeanne was asked on her 120th birthday what she thought the future would be, Madame gave an ingenious answer: “Very short.”
Both before and after Kalman’s death, there were attempts to challenge her record as a verified (official) centenarian, but so far no one’s claim to the title of the oldest woman on the planet has been documented.
She always led an active lifestyle: at the age of 85 she fencing, and at 100 she rode a bicycle.
Zhanna Kalman fencing
Jeanne considered the secret of her longevity and relatively youthful appearance to be olive oil, which she ate and lubricated her skin; she loved port wine and ate almost a kilogram of chocolate a week. She always added garlic to meat and fish.
“The only wrinkle that I have is the one on which I sit” - the phrase of the world record holder for life expectancy has long become a catchphrase. Indeed, memories of Jeanne Kalman always bring a smile. And not without reason! After all, the main driver of her life has always been humor. How else can one explain the fact that the grandmother managed to cheat death for so long? The woman, who managed to outlive seventeen (17!!!) rulers of her state, died at the age of 122 years and 164 days with a clear mind and bright memory. Since the date of birth and death of the legendary lady was documented, she is considered the person with the longest life expectancy.
French centenarian.
A few words about fate Jeanne Kalman. An aristocrat by birth, a native of the city of Arles, was destined to be born in the second half of the 19th century (1875). Edison's light bulb is eight years younger than it. The witness to the construction of the Eiffel Tower was personally acquainted with Van Gogh. By the way, she did not speak very well of him: “He looked gloomy, was dirty and poorly dressed,” this is what a noble person said about the great artist in an interview dedicated to his 100th anniversary.
The woman, despite her advanced age, always remained a coquette. Her outfits were very sophisticated and stylish. She led an active lifestyle until her death. When the centenarian turned 85, she discovered a new hobby - fencing. On her centenary birthday, the lady amazed everyone by riding a bicycle.
Flirty lady.
She was able to give up cigarettes and the aperitif, which the record holder systematically consumed before dinner, at the age of 117. 2 years earlier, the young lady starred in a film, and at 121 she was invited to participate in a musical - to which the old lady unconditionally agreed. The long-liver never went on any diet; she ate whatever she wanted, but especially loved spicy foods and wine. 
The super old woman was destined to see the death of her own husband, children and grandchildren. Since Jeanne had no heirs, she bequeathed everything to the lawyer Raffrey, but with the condition that the woman would receive an annuity from him every month until her death. Thus, it would take the lawyer 10 years to pay off the entire amount for the house. It seemed like a very good deal. After all, how much time does the old lady have left? But that was not the case! The 47-year-old lawyer made a huge mistake: he had to pay the money for thirty years, but was unable to receive Raffrey’s property - he died faster than the mega-old woman (at 77 years old). After which the obligations under the contract were transferred to the lawyer’s wife.
122 years and 164 days is the world record for life expectancy.
U Jeanne Kalman Health difficulties arose only in the last 7 years of her life. At 114 years old, the old woman fell unsuccessfully, breaking her hip. Naturally, such an injury is difficult to cure at this age. That is why it became difficult for the woman to move. In an interview, she revealed the secret of her longevity: “Probably the reason is that I never had to work.” And our heroine always avoided quarrels and conflicts, and looked at life with a smile. To the correspondent’s question, “I hope that we will see each other again...”, the lady replied: “How could it be otherwise? After all, you don’t look so bad yet!” 
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Not only as a record holder for longevity, but also as a participant in the most famous commercial deal of our time.
Sometimes we witness when a person rises to the pinnacle of fame as if by chance, without any special effort.
Nevertheless, and even more than that, upon closer examination, some kind of pattern is revealed in these accidents.
I want to tell you, my friends, an extraordinary life story, the success story of the most famous centenarian on the planet, Jeanne Louise Calment, and her famous deal.
We people today, quite often, are very business-like in our lifestyle. In any case, most of us are accustomed to consider ourselves as such.
And if so, then between us, business people, what can we talk about? The well-known case is about money, about business, about business, about profit.
As they say in Odessa: “What else is there to talk about!”
Sometimes you mention something that is most interesting to you, and then your own internal censor (SEO optimizer in today’s terms) begins to slow you down.
You can say: nibble, sharpen, test, they say, what is the usefulness of your conversation, and the dry residue of the conversation is what it is, but how will your interlocutor be able to apply the result of this conversation in practice, and what benefit will he gain from it?
Based on the laws of the genre, we will also consider the success of Jeanne Louise Kalman through the prism of usefulness, applicability, implementation, payback, and so on.
Jeanne Louise Calment and her unusual deal
The general public first became aware of Jeanne Kalman in 1975, when she was already 100 years old.
There is no doubt - the date is serious.
But there’s no way she’s super unique. We have heard and heard again stories about similar anniversaries, about similar successful people - in different countries and on different continents.
And in our fields and villages, news of similar stories flies from time to time. Age, of course, is terrible, but still not terrible!
Various routine articles are written about these centenarians for several weeks - about the correct lifestyle, and about the correct diet, and all that other stuff, and they will forget about the hero of the day until the next occasion, which most often happens to be a burial.
The story of Jeanne Kalman was far more interesting. Merciful fate gave her more than one year of life.
Our heroine lived the years allotted to her with dignity, teaching us through her example several instructive life lessons.
However, it was one single real estate transaction that brought her, a housewife and a pensioner, worldwide fame, which became (that is, the transaction) the most famous commercial transaction in modern human history.
And the story of this successful transaction is as follows.
In 1965, 90-year-old Jeanne Louise Calment made a deal with 47-year-old lawyer Andre-François Raffret for her apartment in the town of Arles, which is 20 minutes from Avignon and 40 minutes from Marseille.
Different sources on the RuNet call the form of this transaction differently: some call it a life annuity agreement, some call it a purchase and sale agreement with an encumbrance, and some even call it a “sale with a reverse mortgage.”
Let's leave this muddy question to the discretion of legal experts. We don’t need to check this deal with our Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
The essence of this successful transaction, which went down in the history of jurisprudence, was as follows.
Based on the expected life expectancy of a 90-year-old client of 10 years (that is, up to 100 years!), the lawyer offered Zhanna to pay 0.1 of the market value of the apartments annually for the rest of her life (!).
Well, and after her death, the property, of course, became the property of the buyer - this same Andre-Francois Raffret.
The resulting amount was 400 US dollars per month - not a bad increase in pension for the middle of the last century!
It must be assumed that the crafty lawyer was counting on the old woman not to live the agreed (estimated) 10 years, but to end her earthly journey in about 5-6 years. Why isn't it a good deal?
But it was not there! Zhanna's success story seemed to begin with a blank page.
The 100th anniversary was the first Great Jubilee of Jeanne Louise Calment!
Then there were not so “round”, but also quite pleasant anniversaries: 105, 110, 115, 120...
Yes, you must agree, at this age, every birthday is an anniversary!
The “cunning” lawyer Andre-François Raffret continued to pay Jeanne Calment her “rent” until his death at the age of 77 in 1995, overpaying the market value of the apartment several times.
Jeanne Kalman herself outlived her buyer by 2 years.
Therefore, for the last 2 years of her life, the widow Raffre paid her rent.
Jeanne Louise Kalman and her diet
Long-living woman Jeanne Louise Kalman is a popular character on the Internet today. The story of her success is given out by many sources - all kinds and different.
History, to be honest, is most often copied one to one.
One thing catches your eye: this story seems to be completely ignored by numerous websites about a healthy lifestyle, about healthy eating, about medicine, about diets, etc., and so on, and so on.
Well, it’s not suitable for promoting the right ideas, and that’s all!
This is what her gastronomic preferences look like, despite the fact that she still did not deny herself the pleasure of tasting any delicious food with hot spices and herbs:
- garlic - in all imaginable dishes,
- vegetables and fruits,
- olive oil - a must with every meal,
- red wine - a glass of aperitif before dinner, and a glass of wine for bedtime,
- chocolate - at least 0.5 kg per week.
The last two points do not cause delight among nutritionists.
But, as they say, you can’t erase a word from a song!
Yes, once again about olive oil: she used it not only for food, but also as a skin care product.
A few touches to the success story of Jeanne Louise Calment
During her long life, Jeanne Louise Kalman, willingly and unwillingly, turned out to be the owner of many records recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
The first of them was a consequence of the same deal with Andre-Francois Raffret.
Fearing possible complications when entering into inheritance rights to an apartment, an experienced lawyer recorded, documented and certified in the prescribed manner all the life milestones of his client, starting with the birth certificate.
Thus, she turned out to be a long-liver with the most reliable, officially verified data (she lived 122 years and 164 days), since in most cases the dates of birth of the elders were recorded from the words of themselves and their loved ones.
At the age of 114, Jeanne Louise Calment starred in a film about Vincent Van Gogh, whom she knew in her youth, and thus became the oldest actress in the world to appear in films.
At 115 years old, she broke her leg and turned out to be the oldest surgical patient ever to be on the operating table.
Since the age of 100, the life story of Jeanne Louise Calment has been in the field of view of the compilers of the Guinness Book of Records. And she was repeatedly included in this publication on various occasions.
In addition to the “records,” there were many other events in her life that her contemporaries note with interest.
She survived two world wars. She attended the funeral of Victor Hugo. She watched the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
She has outlived 17 French presidents.
In her youth she practiced fencing, but at 85 she still went to the gym to train.
At the age of 15, she first sat on a bicycle and then rode for 100 years until she broke her leg.
Her experience as a smoker can be called an anti-record - she smoked for almost 100 years and gave up cigarettes only at the age of 117.
Moreover, the reason for quitting smoking was not the desire for a healthy lifestyle, but the deterioration of her vision, which prevented her from lighting a cigarette on her own. Madame Kalman did not want to ask for help in this matter every time!
Jeanne Louise Kalman and the main story of her success
It cannot be said that life only spoiled her. She buried her husband, who died before 3 years before their golden wedding.
Jeanne's daughter Yvonne died of pneumonia. Frederic's beloved grandson died in a motorcycle accident at a young age.
Left infinitely lonely after the death of all her relatives and descendants, she accepted the longevity given to her as a sign that it was a sin to indulge in despondency, but she must continue to live.
The main components of the secret of its history were positivism, activity and a sense of humor.
Her favorite expression, which can be called her life motto, was: “If you can’t influence something unpleasant, then you shouldn’t worry about it at all.”
Until old age, Zhanna Louise retained a sense of humor and, I would say, playfulness of character.
Her companion-servant Aurora Bertrand, who accompanied her during her walks, said that she often had to blush at the antics of the respectable lady.
If, for example, she was accidentally touched by a young man on the street, then the 115-year-old coquette would say:
“If you want to marry me, then I don’t mind, but if you’re just snuggling up to me, then I ask you not to do that again.”
One of the constant objects of her witticisms was the owner of a nearby cafe, Jacques Berandier. Appearing on the threshold of his establishment, Zhanna immediately asked to bring a glass of her favorite red wine.
Berandier's polite assurance that he was happy to satisfy Madame Calment could be followed by an instant response, delighting the visitors and embarrassing Jacques:
- Well, with this you are probably several decades late! Let's get your wine.
Madame Calment maintained her good spirits and optimism until the end of her life.
She argued that youth is a state of mind, not a state of body. Consequently, according to her, she remained essentially a girl who has not looked well for the last 70 years.
The phrases she threw out in passing went down in history. And where and when else will you hear such a confession from a person:
— I was not young 100 years ago.
All her life she sought to communicate with young people, refusing to date wrinkled old women. To the remark that she herself was not young, she could say:
- Don’t compare me to them - I only have one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on that one!
Her favorite pastime was to confuse others. Once at the next anniversary, one of the guests made an awkward moment when saying goodbye, saying:
— See you next year, perhaps...
And immediately received an answer:
- No problem, why not. In my opinion, you don't look that bad!
The most recent popular saying took place during the 120th Anniversary celebration. When asked how she sees her future, Jeanne Louise Calment answered: “Very short.”
Until she was 110 years old, she lived in her apartment. And she spent only the last 12 years of her life in a nursing home.
According to the recollections of the staff, the old lady always tried to look perfect.
Her everyday clothes were a sharp black pantsuit and a crisp white blouse.
And one more thing: her handkerchief always exuded the aroma of expensive perfume...
What can you learn from Jeanne Calment's success story?
Well, a mortgage is a mortgage (I’m talking about an apartment deal), records are records, and in the success stories of centenarians, whatever one may say, we are still concerned about the secret of their longevity.
I won’t try to be clever and express my idle opinion.
I will present to your attention the conclusion of a specialist - Viktor Artsimovich, the author of an amateur website about health, healthy food and a healthy lifestyle.
So these are the conclusions he drew from the lesson left for our edification by Jeanne Louise Calment with her living story:
- The harm caused to the body by smoking is exaggerated.
- The harm of wine, in particular red wine, is exaggerated.
- The thesis about the dangers of cocoa is not true.
- The role of physical activity has been proven.
- The high importance of greens and vegetables for human life has been confirmed.
- And most importantly: common sense is more important than any theories!
Well, how can we not mention the words of another famous long-liver, Mephistopheles:
Dry theory, my friend,
And the tree of life grows lushly green
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Epilogue
“The living story of this success is instructive,” my reader may say, “but what conclusions can an entrepreneur draw from it?”
Speaking about a commercial transaction, how not to make mistakes in forecasts?
Long-term forecasts are an interesting thing.
I will quote the famous American business coach Tom Peters, whom I was lucky enough to meet several years ago at his master class in Novosibirsk.
Noting the rapid changes in modern life, he said that the long-term strategy of the corporation in the current conditions needs to be formulated carefully and only in the most streamlined terms:
Alexander Loginov
P.S. What do you think, dear reader, about longevity, about a healthy lifestyle, about the attitude towards life, about the lifestyle, finally?
What do you remember about this success story?
Jeanne Louise Kalman(French Jeanne Louise Calment; February 21, 1875, Arles, France - August 4, 1997, ibid., France) - French centenarian, the oldest person who has ever lived on Earth, whose dates of birth and death are documented. Kalman also holds several other records related to longevity. She is the only known person to reach the age of 120. She also held the title of "oldest living person on Earth" longer than any other centenarian.
Kalman was born in Arles and spent her entire life there. In 1896, she married her second cousin, Fernand Calment, and two years later gave birth to a daughter, Yvonne. In 1932, Yvonne died of pneumonia, and in 1942, Fernand passed away. After the wedding, Kalman never worked. At the age of 110, she moved to a nursing home, where she died at 122 years, 5 months and 14 days.
Kalman's lifestyle, genetics and other medical characteristics have become the subject of research by many specialists.
Childhood
Jeanne was born into the family of Nicolas (1838-1931) and Marguerite (1838-1924) Kalmans. Both parents were 37 years old at the time. The two eldest children in the family, Antoine and Marie, died before her birth: Antoine at four years old, Marie in infancy. However, Jeanne's brother, Francois, who was 10 years older than her, like her younger sister, turned out to be a long-liver. He died in 1962 at the age of 97. It is unknown exactly how many children were born in the family; Jeanne only knew about Francois. Although she had heard that the Kalmans had older children who died early, she did not know their names. Researchers have suggested that there were other children in the family, since some documents did not match Jeanne’s middle name; Suspicions arose that she was confused with her older sister.
The Calment family belonged to the local bourgeoisie; Jeanne's father Nicolas was a member of the Arles Council. By profession he was a shipbuilder. Marguerite, née Gilles, came from a family of millers. They married on October 16, 1861. The names of Jeanne's godparents are also known - they were Louis Paget and Jeanne Gilles, an aunt. In honor of them, the girl received the name Zhanna Louise. Researchers found in the archives a birth certificate certified by a priest named Berlioz.
According to the French census documents of 1881 and 1886, the Calmans lived in house number 131. Jeanne is mentioned as a minor on both occasions. Documents have also been preserved confirming her education: first at the Arles primary school, later at the Benet boarding school, and finally at the Arles secondary school.
In her youth, Kalman worked part-time in her father's shop. At the age of 13, Jeanne, according to her, met Van Gogh there. The artist seemed to her “dirty, poorly dressed and unfriendly.” In another interview, she said that she did not serve him because “he was terrible as a mortal sin, had a vile temper, and he smelled of booze.”
Marriage and future fate
Calment married at age 21 to her second cousin Fernand Nicolas Calment on April 8, 1896. Fernand and Jeanne's paternal grandfathers, Antoine and Nicolas, were brothers, and their spouses were also sisters to each other. The wedding took place in the Cathedral of St. Trophim. Despite the relationship of the bride and groom, the priest agreed to the marriage. The witnesses at the wedding, according to the marriage certificate, were Emile Fassin, Louis Calment, Fernand's cousin, Pierre Calment, Jeanne's uncle, and Antoine Bourdelon.
Fernand owned a thriving store, and Jeanne had the opportunity not to work. Her life mainly revolved around tennis, cycling, swimming, roller skating, playing the piano and going to the opera. On January 19, 1898, the couple had a daughter, Nicole Marie Yvonne Calment. Her godparents were, according to the record, Nicolas and Marie Kalman. Yvonne remained the only child in the family. According to the 1901 census, the family lived in the Rue Gambetta in the same house with Marie Felix, Jeanne's mother-in-law, and two servants. According to the 1906 census, Calment moved with her husband and daughter into a separate apartment on Rue Saint-Esteve.
Jeanne Kalman at different ages
Many have heard the name Jeanne Louise Kalman - this famous Frenchwoman went down in human history as the oldest person in the world. The officially documented age to which she was able to live is 122 years and 164 days, capturing three centuries with her life! A good example to follow, although most readers, as I guess, would like to live even longer than Zhanna and, if possible, not grow old , Although This is still a fantasy today, but science is developing and perhaps there will soon appear that will allow you to achieve this dream - to live long and not grow old. But in this article I will not touch on the topic of drugs and other methods of ensuring longevity available today. I want to study in more detail the life of the famous centenarian, and perhaps it will be possible to lift the veil of secrecy over the secret of longevity Jeanne Kalman.
The oldest man in the world life story
Zhanna Kalman Born in the winter of 1875, she was a late child - her parents were 37 years old. She was born in the small French town of Arles, where no more than 50 thousand people lived. Zhanna's parents were wealthy people, their family had several children - besides Zhanna, two more sisters and a brother, but the girls died in childhood, but the brother lived to be 97 years old, and the parents - father to 93 and mother to 83, which is quite remarkable since it confirms my opinion that supercentenarians usually have a genetic predisposition to long life. According to demographic studies in the Kalman clan, other long-livers were also observed, the clan had a fairly long history, in the demographic archives there is a mention of 68 ancestors of Jeanne Calment.
Jeanne Kalman in her youth
Zhanna Kalman in her youth (20 years old)
At the age of 21, Zhanna had already gotten married, which allowed her not to work, but she was able to lead a very active and eventful life, engaging in physical activity, which she loved very much. Her favorite healthy pastime was tennis, she liked to roller skate and bicycle - and did this until she was 100 years old, when she broke her leg in an unfortunate fall from the stairs. The long-lived woman even practiced fencing and swimming at a very old age. Jeanne Kalman knew how to play the piano, loved to attend the opera - according to scientific research, music lessons have a very positive effect on the functioning of the brain and even possibly slow down its aging.
Family of Jeanne Kalman
The famous centenarian did not start a large family - almost all of her relatives died at certain periods of her life; she lived most of her life alone. Although large - this is by her standards, as, for example, she lived with her only husband for almost 50 years, their marriage did not live 4 years before the “golden wedding”; Jeanne’s husband was poisoned by canned cherries and died. They had an only daughter who died at the age of 33, and Kalman was 57 years old at that time. After the death of her daughter, she raised her beloved and only grandson, who crashed on a motorcycle at the age of 33, then Kalman was already 88 years old, after which she lived very lonely - she had no relatives left. She did not like to remember or think about the losses that are inevitable in the life of a centenarian - their fate is to outlive their relatives.
Diet rules and habits of Jeanne Kalman
The long-liver always ate a lot of vegetable dishes and fruits, she was madly in love with garlic - she always added it to all meat and fish dishes. She was always very thin - therefore, most likely, she was moderate in food and did not overeat, although she loved to eat deliciously and try some new exotic dish. She always added olive oil to any food - and even considered it the source of her longevity, using it not only for food, but also as a cosmetic product, she loved to eat chocolate - she ate at least a hundred gram bar a day. By the way, gerontologists have noticed this feature in many centenarians - very often their favorite treat is chocolate.
Oddly enough, Jeanne Kalman smoked for 95 years - from 22 to 117, but it must be said that even smoking was very moderate - no more than 2 cigarettes a day - probably strong genetics did not allow her body to receive much harm from the process smoking - or maybe it was observed here, which could even be beneficial.
Jeanne Kalman did not disdain wine and aperitif, she loved to drink a glass every day at breakfast - scientific data on alcohol is very contradictory, sometimes there are studies on the health benefits of small doses of alcohol, but unfortunately, these studies are not reliable enough, in addition, it is necessary to take into account negative psychological aspects of alcohol consumption.
Jeanne Kalman's record
Jeanne Calment bore the title " oldest living person on earth"since 1988 - when she turned 113 years old, with a short break. She is now the oldest person in history - having lived more than 122 years - whose date of birth is proven with complete certainty. Zhanna died in 1997, but her life expectancy record still stands today. Periodically appearing reports of people living 150 years or 200 are nothing more than confirmed cases, the dates of birth were most often recorded from the words of the centenarians themselves.
Those closest to Jeanne Calment's record were Sarah Knauss (119 years, 97 days) and Lucy Hannah (117 years, 248 days).
Almost all her life, Jeanne Kalman demonstrated excellent health and was not ill with anything; after reaching her 100th birthday, she was regularly examined by doctors, and neurophysiologists tested her mental abilities - everything was excellent, she even remembered and enjoyed reciting poems she had learned in her youth. At the age of 121, she took part in the recording of a rap album - where she read the lyrics for 4 songs.
The most important thing that all researchers of Jeanne Kalman’s life note is that she had a positive character: she always joked, many of her statements were very funny, but also very wise.
Quotes from Jeanne Kalman
“Youth is a state of mind, not of body. That’s why I’m still just a girl, I’ve just looked bad for the last 70 years.”
"I'm in love with wine."
"Always smile. So, I explain the reason for my longevity.”
“If you can't do anything about something, don't worry about it.”
“I have a great desire to live and a good appetite, especially for sweets.”
“I never wear mascara because I laugh a lot until I cry.”
"I think I'm going to die laughing."
“I have iron legs, but to be honest, they are slowly starting to rust.”
“I enjoyed every opportunity, I followed the principles of morality, and I have nothing to regret. I'm lucky."
Zhanna Kalman is an excellent example of a positive attitude towards life; for so many years, she spent her whole life denying the prevailing opinion that over the years people lose the desire to live and enjoy every day. I called the article “the oldest inhabitant of the earth” - but it could well be called “the most eternally young inhabitant of the earth.”
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