'Toyboys keep me young!'' Stunning 61-year-old cougar reveals secret to defying old age
Laila Gledhill could easily pass for a woman in her forties - and the lady from Yorkshire claims to have dated over thirty strapping young men in her life
She has been married to a 22-year-old army officer, engaged to a 27-year-old for four years and has a casual ongoing fling with a university student.
And 61-year-old Laila Gledhill, isn't even a little bit ashamed about her passion for toyboys.
Not one bit.
Youth: 61-year-old Gledhill says the secret to her youthful looks is dating toyboys (Image: News Dog Media)
In fact, the stunning administrative officer - who could easily pass for a woman in her thirties - says dating and
sleeping with toyboys is the secret to her youth.
Laila claims to have dated over thirty toyboys in her life.
She meets most of them through online dating website ToyBoyWarehouse.com or when she is on a night out.
Laila from Hull, Yorkshire says: "No man over 40 has ever approached me.
"Dating toyboys has kept me looking young and given me a zest for life.
"I feel like my appearance has stood still in time because of the way younger men treat me.
"From my experience, younger men treat older women with respect, find them infinitely more attractive and genuinely enjoy their company.
"And the sex is so much better.
"Older men often have baggage and a bigger belly. Why should I be with a sixty-year-old man when I can be one who is twenty-four?
While her contemporaries collect their free bus passes, Laila can be found in nightclubs being
approached by young professionals or holidaying with mates who are decades younger.
In fact, Laila - with her youthful looks and vivacious lifestyle - has found herself to be the object of envy of certain younger women.
Laila, who turns 62 next year, says: "A group of twenty-something women became jealous of me when their boyfriends remarked that I was attractive.
"The girls made some nasty comments regarding my body, saying that it must be wrinkly under my clothes.
"So to show them, I took some racy photos of me in my swimwear and posted them
to Facebook!"
Laila wasn't always a cougar.
Her adult life started largely conventionally when
she married her childhood sweetheart, Marcus, when she was twenty-seven-years old.
"We
met when I was seventeen and we married each other a decade later.
"Although even Marcus was two years younger than me - I like to consider him my first toyboy," says Laila cheekily.
But after fourteen years together, Marcus declared that he was leaving Laila for a younger woman.
She explains, "He was my first love. We had known each other since we were teenagers.
"But now Marcus was telling me he wanted to leave me for a woman in her early thirties who was thinner, taller and prettier than me.
"I kicked him out.
"Marcus walking out on me made me really think about what I deserved in life and from men."
Marriage: Laila with her first husband Marcus, who was just two years her junior (Image: News Dog Media)
And a few weeks later, the now 41-year-old divorcee met a handsome 21-year-old army officer called David.
Laila adds: "It was so funny because a few months after walking out, Marcus called and begged me to take him back.
"I responded with 'Sorry Marcus but I've met someone who's younger than you and fitter than you'."
David fell head-over-heels in love with Laila and popped the question after a year of dating.
When David was posted to Germany, they moved together. The pair were happily married for five years but David's parents disliked the fact that Laila was much older than him.
She explains, "His family were unhappy about the age gap between David and me. That finally came between us and we split up."
Laila says prejudice towards older women dating toyboys has been something that she has encountered all of her life
After the breakdown of her second marriage, a now 55-year-old Laila quickly clawed back the excitement in her life.
She started dating 28-year-old Peter. Their life together was exciting and two years later, he proposed.
They were happily engaged for two more years after that until Laila had suspicions that Peter was cheating on her.
"I was on Peter's emails and I noticed some emails from a online dating website called ToyBoy Warehouse in his Inbox.
"I was confused and did some research.
"I joined that dating website to see what he was up to and discovered that he was messaging other older women.
"I broke up with Peter immediately."
However there was a silver lining to the revelation that Peter was cheating.
Laila explains: "When I joined, I was bombarded by hundreds of messages and complements from young professional men.
"I couldn't even respond to all of them - they were so many! It was like being in a sweet shop full of good looking toyboys.
"I decided to stay on the website."
Laila hasn't looked back since Peter and now she uses the online dating website as her primary way of meeting toyboys. Laila is dating a few younger men at the moment.
Pensioner: Laila spends her time in nightclubs rather than claiming her bus pass (Image: News Dog Media)
She says, "Older women have everything they need in life. They have great jobs and great friends. We don't have to settle anymore.
"We can pick and choose the men that we want to date. In my mother's generation for example, it was a
different situation.
"My mother had to rely on my father for everything and she didn't have the freedom in middle-age that I have now.
"If a woman wants to date toyboys, they should. There's no problem with it.
"Can you imagine how different I would look now if I was with an older man?"
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