We’ve all been hearing urgent warnings from scientists, government, and corporate leaders on the need to limit the planet's global temperature warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change. And from what I've heard from women in their 50s, it keeps getting better, at least for a good while longer. We do become more ourselves, and it is amazing. I've had friends who are a little older than I am tell me about this phenomenon, and now that I've experienced it myself, I want to share it with women who might be fearing their 40s. I've never felt better in my body (and yes, never sexier). I've never felt more comfortable in my own skin. It feels nothing like it looked like it would feel from the outside. But this decade is definitively powerful. This is not to say that women in our 40s have figured out the keys to everything or never experience self-doubt. It's a saying we pay lip service to when we're younger, or which we use to justify all manner of YOLO risk-taking, but at this age it's more about not wasting our precious time or energy or life force on things that really don't matter. I mean, who puts on make-up while they’re doing the school run? I don’t.”Īll praise to Kate Winslet, our champion."Life's too flipping short" sort of sums it up. And not shying away from truly looking like a hot mess a lot of the time. I care passionately about highlighting issues that need to be talked about that perhaps people find hard to talk about. “That's certainly something that I feel is a shift in this time in my life. ![]() And I do care about being real and telling stories that are truthful and come from a place of integrity,” she told Woman’s Hour. “There are a lot of myths, I think, around perfection and actresses looking perfect all the time and, and how real that is or that isn't. series I Am Ruth, she decided to forgo makeup altogether and look as she does “every day of my life.” But, to her, it’s important to show the truth of womanhood on screen. Winslet said she believes in the “everything in moderation” theory, and tries to eat well and keep up with a healthy lifestyle. But for me, it’s about beauty coming from within and not being so self critical - it’s a big deal.” “Sure, we can do things to support our health and our skin, to feel a little bit better and make ourselves last a bit longer. “For me, the secret to aging at any age, in Hollywood or not, is actually accepting who you are and accepting that we can’t fight change,” she continued. It’s a moment in time,” she told British Vogue in 2021. I know because I’ve been there and had that many facials. “Women on the red carpet have been sat in hair and makeup for four hours to look like that and probably had facials every day during the week in the run up to the event. Winslet, who has three children - Mia Threapleton, 22, Joe Mendes, 18, and Bear Blaze, 9 - has had a positive outlook on aging for many years, recently sharing that the Hollywood look is “a myth.” We have opportunity to speak and speak our mind and not be afraid of what people think of us. ![]() We become more woman, more powerful, more sexy. “Things start to change and fade and slide in directions that I don’t want them to go in anymore. “I think women come into their 40s - certainly mid-40s -thinking, ‘Oh well, this is the beginning of the decline,’” she continued. “There are bits that don’t do what you want them to do anymore and there’s something kind of fab about going, ‘Oh well, that’s just the way it is, isn’t it?’” the Oscar and Emmy winner admitted. We must embrace the wrinkles, sagging skin and arthritis and lean into our power, according to Rose Dewitt Bukater, ehem, Winslet. In a new interview with BBC Woman’s Hour, Winslet, 47, insists “life’s too flipping short” to worry about our bodies changing. But, in her humble opinion, getting older is a gift and only makes you “more powerful” as a woman. Kate Winslet has been headlining movies and TV shows for over two decades, and admits that aging in the public eye is not easy.
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