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Emma Thompson pens moving tribute to living in woman’s body: ‘I’m grateful I can still get up a hill and I’m depressed about my thighs’
Greg Wise, Gaia, noticing how while the pair ‘recalibrate each other’, she’s balanced between the two.Penning the essay for Guardian special Living In A Woman’s Body, Dame Emma, 62, remarked that instead of grieving her mum’s frailty and ageing, and envying her daughter’s youth, she’s ‘buoyed up and calmed down by turn’.She wrote: ‘I exist between them. I’m grateful I can still get up a hill and I’m depressed about my thighs.’The star revealed it was during their second ‘Covid Christmas’ together she noticed ‘the umbilical connection’ between the trio ‘tugging’ at her, reflecting on liking her daughter’s tattoos, and watching her mother navigate moving as she ages, trying ‘not to help’.She penned in the revealing prose: ‘“Why is my f**ny getting bigger?” my mother breathes at me one morning as she is washing the forks.