Jeanne Calment

This is a video of Jeanne Calment when she was 119 years old. She lived to 122 years of age. Excerpted from http://mediterranee.france3.fr.

Edited on 21 Aug 2008.

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• Jeanne Calment
• centenarian
• oldest woman in the world

[Hippoclite]

Translation :

- Did you meet Van Gogh ?

- Yes

- How ?

- I met him at the end of his life. He was ugly. He was alcoholic.

- Where did you meet him ?

- He came at the store (in Arles). He still painted a little bit. He came to buy some canvas. My husband sold canvas, to paint.

[Dirkdebruyne]

jean calment enjoyed life, ate, smoked, drank and did everything a good doctor would forbid...she enjoyed her husband's money, never worked very hard...and most of all she was, like all super centenarians, stress resistant...good genes and the ability to let stress flow from your back like water are in my opinion the only things that are never mentioned when asked for the secret of their long life yet are probably the essential factors in getting to extreme old age.

[Pugslee3]

@Appledude500 Sometimes I feel that way!

[1967jenn1]

@Hippoclite its not "he was ugly. he was alcoholic", its he was really ugly, he reeked of alcohol...

[KDALove]

@Superflykid2008 Why would you live like her? She can't move very well, hear very well, and the prospect outliving your children, your husband/wife, grandchildren is eerie.

[arame147258]

OMG c horrible franchement respect !

[bibbidibobbidiboosta]

lmao funny how hes shouting into her ear.

[ellitestar]

This little old lady is adorable!.. I heard she even outlived her parents, but not only that!, she also even outlived her grandparents....wow!!!!! that's amazing!.

[Ruldolphmaker]

would've asked her to prove if Jesus was real or not! lol

she probably shook hands with him

[Walters78s]

its amazing but can you actually imagine outliving your GRANDCHILDREN? That would be awful!

[MrMatthewrb85]

@DrShaym I read she smoked no more than 2 cigarettes per day, and stopped smoking because her eyes got so out of whack that she could no longer see well enough to light them. She also ate nearly a kilo of chocolate per week, drank lots of port wine, and put olive oil on EVERYTHING...