Gwyneth Paltrow is accepting her “loosening skin” and wrinkles before she toasts her 50th birthday. The Oscar-winner, due to celebrate the milestone on September 27, added she has “let go of the need to be perfect” as she ages, after spending years detailing her painstaking and gruelling health, beauty and exercise regimes.
Gwyneth, who made the declarations in a long essay titled ‘On Turning 50’ published on her lifestyle site Goop on Thursday (22.
09. 22), said: “My body, a map of the evidence of all the days, is less timeless. A collection of marks and irregularities that dog-ear the chapters.
Scarred from oven burns, a finger smashed in a window long ago, the birth of a child. “Silver hair and fine lines. The sun has left her celestial fingerprints all over me, as if she soaked a brush in dark-taupe watercolour, flecking it over my skin. “And while I do what I can to strive for good health and longevity, to stave off weakening muscles and receding bone, I have a mantra I insert into those reckless thoughts that try to derail me: I accept. “I accept the marks and the loosening skin, the wrinkles.
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