Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161031005929/@comment-26967699-20161105172022

Nightlily wrote: About Ingrid: After she was released from the jar, she aged normally. However, she stopped aging when she came to Storybrooke. She says so to Emma when they are reunited:

Emma: "This makes no sense. You don't look a day older. That was over 10 years ago."

Ingrid: "After you ran away, I came to Storybrooke to wait for you. And people don't age here the way they do in a world without magic."

We don't know why Henry aged normally, even though he grew up during the Dark Curse. All we can do is speculate. Perhaps it's because he, unlike Ingrid, comes from the LWM? I think that was answered at some point. Henry didn't age because he was born in LWM, therefore was NOT a victim of the Curse. But it affected him somehow, as he never realized the people doing the exact same thing every day. Think of this like movie "The Truman Show". Truman never realized that all until he saw a proof just like Henry. But Ingrid was born in FTL. She was not a victim of the Curse neither and that's why she remembered everything. But for the nature of the Curse, she didn't age because of being born in a magical world.