Jokes aside, Gwyneth Paltrow is making sure to celebrate her body as she enters her 50s. “I feel so good turning 50, and this is about expressing that sense of energy and optimism that I’m experiencing,” Paltrow said of her stunning nude birthday shoot by Andrew Yee, which she shared in September 2022.
In an essay for Goop, she wrote, “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 watercolor, flecking it over my skin.”
She continued, “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. I accept my body and let go of the need to be perfect, look perfect, defy gravity, defy logic, defy humanity. I accept my humanity.”
