What else do Supercentenarians have in common?

Bertrand Jeune, Robine, and other researchers compared Jeanne Calment with nearly 20 people worldwide who had been verified to have reached at least 115 years of age. They concluded that the lives of these people differed widely and that they had just a few common traits: most of them were female (only two were male), most smoked little or not at all, and they had never been obese. They all had exhibited strong characters, but not all were domineering personalities. Although they aged slowly, all became very frail and their physical fitness declined markedly, especially after age 105. In their final years, they required wheelchairs and were nearly blind and deaf. “But they did not fear death, and they appeared to be reconciled to the fact their lives would soon end.”

The photograph pictures her 1945 at the age of 70 which was past the French life expectancy during that time already.

She would continue to live for an additional 52 years.

BUT…

There have been various theories about the authenticity of her age. In 2018, Russian gerontologist Valery Novoselov and mathematician Nikolay Zak revived the theory that Calment died in 1934 and her daughter Yvonne, born in 1898, assumed her mother’s official identity and was therefore 99 years old when she died in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

Does the photograph show a 70 or 47 year old woman?

See also:

Blood Types and Life Expectancy