Nobody Believes This Model is Actually 45-Years-Old

​How old do you reckon this woman is? If I wasn't writing this article myself and therefore armed with all the knowledge, I'd have guessed she was fresh out of uni, so maybe 21 or 22? But it turns out that's WAY off, because she's actually 45.

Yeah, FORTY-FIVE. She's been on this planet for over forty-five years and there's not a speck on her face that would suggest so.

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Risa Hirako, the woman in question, is one of Japan's most famous models, so when her pictures began circulating on social media this week along with her practically unbelievable age, people lost their shit.

But it's true, she really is in her mid-forties, having been born on Valentine's Day in 1971. Crazy.

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The Tokyo-based model often poses in lingerie on her blog and Instagram account, along with tips on how to live a healthy lifestyle which we're now more than likely going to start noting down because LOOK AT HER FACE. 

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Whatever her secret is, we're going to need to know it before we start approaching our forties if that's not too much trouble.

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