New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

A new career at 71! YVONNE’S FITNESS REVOLUTION

At 71, fitness guru Yvonne Edwards has become like the Richard Simmons of New Zealand and has proven that you’re never to old to become a TV personality.

The Auckland grandmother stars in her very own TV fitness show, Oranga Ngākau, on Whakaata Māori (formerly Māori Television), a lifestyle series which she hosts and conducts exercise classes for kaumatua (elders) to focus on their health and wellbeing.

She is thrilled to have reinvented herself during her senior

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