Trudeau, Margaret

66 year old author, sometime actress and former First Lady of Canada Margaret Trudeau, is a grandmother 7 times over. Her new memoir and 4th published book, The Time of Your Life: Choosing a Vibrant, Joyful Future is at once a story of her life and advice on how to grow older, handling the transition from middle age to senior citizen. Safe to say she’s not your average grandma.

Margaret grew up with a politician in the family. Her father James Sinclair served both as a Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and as Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. In 1966, while vacationing in Tahiti at age 18, Margaret met 47-year-old Pierre Trudeau (then Canada’s Minister of Justice). Although she didn’t recognize him, he was smitten by her. Back in Canada, he courted her, in between becoming 15th Prime Minister of Canada in 1968 and dating Barbra Streisand.