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Byline: Judith Newman
By any measure, Catherine (not her real name) has lived an enviable life. Married to a Hall of Fame rocker, she spent much of her young-adult life gallivanting the world with her husband, their daughter in tow. Today she spends her time shuttling between a home in California and their Colorado ranch, where she mountain bikes, hikes, and cross-country skis. "I'm incredibly active and love to work out," says Catherine. "I've been fit my whole life." Then she turned 50 a few years ago-and, she says, laughing, "it all fell apart."
"It" being the body whose perfection she'd always taken for granted. Despite the hours logged at her home ...