‘Goodbye 50s, you were good to me!’ Eighties icon Kim Wilde marks turning 60 with stunning make-up free selfie
She was one of the biggest icons of the 1980s.
And while Kim Wilde momentarily turned her back on the pop world in favour of a life of gardening in the home counties, she returned to the spotlight to mark her 60th birthday with a stunning Twitter post.
The songstress, who is headed on a Greatest Hits Tour next year, looked stunning in the snap which she accompanied with the caption: ‘Goodbye 50s, you were good to me but guess what 60s… I’m coming for ya!’
Stunner: Kim Wilde momentarily turned her back on the pop world in favour of a life of gardening in the home counties, she opted to return to the spotlight to mark her 60th birthday with a stunning Twitter post
With her blonde tresses tousled over her pretty features, Kim looked striking in the shot which helped her welcome in her next decade on Wednesday.
Fellow Eighties legend Cheryl Baker – a member of Bucks Fizz – seemed impressed with the snap as she responded: ’60 is the new 40!’
Kim shot to fame with her hit Kids In America in 1981, with the international anthem being the work of her brother Ricky and dad, original British rock ’n’ roller Marty Wilde, and at one stage she was shifting 60,000 copies a day.
She had seven more Top Ten singles in the UK but never a number one, however her reworking of the Motown classic You Keep Me Hangin’ On, which topped the US Billboard chart in 1986.
Happy days: The songstress, who is headed on a Greatest Hits Tour next year, looked stunning in the snap which she accompanied with the caption: ‘Goodbye 50s, you were good to me but guess what 60s… I’m coming for ya!
Wow! Kim shot to fame with her hit Kids In America in 1981, with the international anthem being the work of her brother Ricky and dad, original British rock ’n’ roller Marty Wilde, and at one stage she was shifting 60,000 copies a day
Stunner! Fellow Eighties legend Cheryl Baker – a member of Bucks Fizz – seemed impressed with the snap as she responded: ’60 is the new 40!’
Earlier this year she spoke of missing out in the UK but achieving the US triumph, she said: ‘Although having a No 1 in America almost made up for it,’
She went on to sell more than 30 million records and won hearts thanks to her stunning good looks – something she took great pride in.
She said: ‘I feel very grateful that I got my mum’s gorgeous nose and my dad’s fabulous mouth’ however revealed she was bullied for her ‘Mick Jagger lips’.
Way back when: Kim is pictured with her father Marty Wilde, MBE – a singer and songwriter
Of her figure, she went on: ‘I had long legs and they did well with jeans. I knew how to wear a pair of jeans, that’s for sure.’
In 1987 Michael Jackson invited Wilde to join him on his Bad tour and open 33 shows across Europe and the UK. She observed a superstar alone in his own universe.
She said: ‘He was an elusive character then, and kept himself to himself. We never sat and had a chat. We had a publicity photograph taken together and that was the longest we spent together.
Wow! Kim made a stunning appearance on Loose Women in 2018 (pictured)
‘I’ve met a lot of very famous people – I grew up with a very famous person in the house, my dad was the Robbie Williams of his day! – so fame doesn’t faze me at all…
‘But Michael Jackson was by far the most enigmatic character I’ve ever encountered. He was in another world, whatever that was.’
Two years after the tour, Wilde’s own world came crashing down the day after her 30th birthday, when it dawned that her time as a pop phenomenon might be over.
Starring role: Kim with Bobby Ball and Tommy Cannon on Cannon and Ball in 1987
‘I felt really lost,’ she says, ‘like I was closing in on myself. My inclination was to shut down. Having to deal with the fact that the success I’d had, which was so massive, had dissipated was very confusing.’
She was then found solace on turning her back on her life as it was, saying: ‘Within a year, I left London. I moved back up to Hertfordshire…
‘That was really the big turning point. I started noticing the natural world around me and getting involved in gardening and immersing myself in it. Nature brought me back to life.’
Wilde bought and renovated a 16th-century barn with two acres, where she still lives with her husband, actor and writer Hal Fowler and their two children, Harry, 22, and Rose, 19.
Radiant: Kim is pictured in 2015
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