Some people seem to have the gift of simply never ageing, don't they?
While the rest of us battle in vain against the effects of Father Time, those select few lucky ones swan through life apparently unblemished by each passing year, as glowing and wrinkle-free as they ever were.
Of course, ageing is something that should actually be celebrated rather than feared. Conjuring as it does friendlier synonyms such as wise and knowledgeable, age is a privilege of our continued existence.
Watch Shakira showing off a bathing suit she designed herself:However, it is hard not to feel a small pang of envy over that one friend who has retained such astonishingly youthful looks, defying the passing years.
And Shakira has recently wowed her millions of followers online with a new bikini picture, in which she looks incredibly toned and youthful.
Revealing that she actually designed the swimwear herself, Shakira captioned the picture, "This is a new bathing suit I designed and my friend Bego made for me. I always need to create my own for the summer!"
And her fans were delighted with the snap. One commenter wrote, "someone elxplain to me how she still looks 20 [sic]" while another added, "You ageless".
"I want one 😍you look amazing. Is it for sale?" a third commenter added.
In an interview with E! News, Shakira's trainer Anna Kaiser revealed that the singer trains five times a week and on two of those days she'll work out twice.
"We alternate between strength and cardio intervals," she said. "Some days, we do just cardio and then strength and some days we start with strength and then do cardio, we like to mix it up."
"She's very smart, and she wants to learn about the body, and she wants to know why she’s doing what she’s doing and what her goal is, what she’s trying to accomplish," Kaiser told W Magazine in a separate interview. "And that’s why we’ve had such a long relationship, because she knows what a stickler I am for functional smart training, but I also make it really fun."