The oldest woman in Scotland, Jesse Gallan, celebrated her 109th birthday in January and told reporters about the secret to a long life, writes The Daily Mail.
Jesse was born in a tiny two-room farmhouse. She slept in the same room with five sisters and a brother, and in the end, at the age of 13, she decided to leave home and start working.
She began her career as a milkmaid on a farm, then worked as a cook's assistant until she got a job at a hotel where the Queen of Great Britain stayed more than once.
As Jesse said, the main thing that helped her to live so much is the rejection of men: “My secret to a long life is to stay away from men. They create so many problems and are not at all worth spending so much of their energy on them. The long-liver has never been married.
In addition, the long-liver admitted that despite her age, she goes in for sports every day and monitors her diet, eating only healthy food. “I'm also confident that daily exercise and a bowl of oatmeal every morning helped me,” added Jesse Gallan. She also said that she always worked hard and rarely took a vacation.
Jesse celebrated her birthday with a slice of cake at a nursing home in Aberdeen.