Actress Gwyneth Paltrow says age can’t get her down as she embraces turning 50.
Paltrow chose to celebrate by taking a few unfiltered bikini photos for her upcoming birthday.
The actress, who will celebrate the milestone on Sept. 27, showed her “loosening skin” and “wrinkles” while rocking a bathing suit in a black-and-white Instagram photo Thursday.
“Musings on a milestone,” Paltrow captioned the snap, directing her followers to a Goop blog post.
In the essay, Paltrow wrote, “I strangely have no sense of time being passed, but the body is less timeless. My body is a map of the evidence of all the days. 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.”
Paltrow, who is the mother of Apple, 18, and Moses, 16, noted that she works to combat reckless thoughts that try to derail her acceptance of her aging body.
“I accept the marks and the loosening skin, the wrinkles,” she wrote. “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. I plan to slow down, retreat and make my circle smaller in her next decade.”
“My plans are to fully acknowledge myself. I really won’t know what it was like to turn 50 until much later, when I can reflect back from a higher perch, perhaps at one of my children’s 50ths, hearts full and broken simultaneously as that is life,” concluded Paltrow.
Although the Emmy winner starred in a campaign for anti-wrinkle injectables in 2020, she has previously been vocal about her love for her body’s aging process.
“I like my wrinkles and … I like what I see,” Paltrow said in November 2014. “Of course I can get into the frame of mind where I get critical about this and that, but I really try to not do that and try to appreciate the incredible life I’ve lived and all I’ve learned.
“I like that all of that is written on my face,” she explained at the time.
This is one of the world worst human beings, she is a loser and a scum bag.