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Akon says he's ageless

4:09 p.m. · January 23, 2009 · by Kali Holloway

There’s been a lot gossip over the last few years about Akon being longer in the tooth than he admits, but the singer now says even he doesn’t know how old he is – and doesn’t want to know (his own personal “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, we guess). Although the U.S. born, Senegalese raised, artist does have a birth certificate, which puts his d.o.b. at April 16, 1977 (that would make him 31, in case math isn’t your strong point) he recently told the Associated Press that, basically, age ain’t nothing but a number (that he arbitrarily makes up every day).

“I feel like I’m 21 right now,” he says. “And I’ll be 21 for the next 10 years.”

So while the rest of us cope with the unstoppable reality of wrinkles, fading memories and slowly failing eyesight, Akon continues on at the age of his choosing, blissfully unaware of when he’ll be eligible for a senior discount.

“All it’s going to do is depress me,” he says in the AP interview. “I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.”

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