Wang Deshun. 80-Year-Old Runway Model Shares His Secrets for Healthy Aging

Breaking Stereotypes. 80-Year-Old Runway Model. Subscribe Do you know 80-year-old man, reshaping China’s views on aging with his youthful looks, his white hipster beard and his athletic physique? This hyperactive grandpa shares his experience of being a rising star. He’s smashing stereotypes with his amazing outlook. At 80 years old, Wang Deshun is redefining what it means to get older — one catwalk at a time. In China, most men retire at age 60, and people as young as 50 are often referred to as “grandma“ or “grandpa“ — even if they don’t have grandchildren. But Wang isn’t interested in embodying that sentimental nickname. An actor and artist, he’s spent the last few decades combatting stereotypical ideas of aging and working on keeping both his mind and body super strong and energetic. He’s taught modeling classes at a Beijing fashion school, and he even walked a high-fashion runway for the first time last year, at age 79. With all his hard work, he