Who says romance is dead as you get older?
For 72-year old actress Jane Seymour, romance is very much still alive and maybe even the best she’s had in her life.
Seymour blushed as she shared she is having the best sex of her life with boyfriend John Zambetti in an essay for Cosmopolitan’s “Sex After 60” digital issue.
“Sex right now is more wonderful and passionate than anything I ever remember because it is built on trust, love, and experience,” she penned in her essay, which was published Wednesday. “I now know myself and my body, and John has had his own experiences in his life. It’s not like when you’re younger.”
“I suppose among younger generations, people have sex first and then say, ‘Oh, by the way, hello. How do you do?’” she theorized. “The older I get, the more sex is built on emotional intimacy, on having shared the ups and downs of life with someone. Purely sharing our feelings, our joys, our sadness, our mutual passions, and desire.”
Seymour, who gained her popularity after playing a Bond girl in the 1973 film “Live and Let Die”, also touched on the notion that sex stops when you get older.
“Your sex life doesn’t need to end at 60. At the end of the day, everyone is looking for something that puts blood into a certain area,” she wrote. “When you can figure that out, well, you’re going to be a happy camper.”
Seymour even joked that the bonus to older sex is that you can’t get pregnant.
“I truly feel sex and intimacy is better at my age than it ever was before,” she further gushed. “I actually mean that. And it took being single after my marriages to learn that I don’t have to disappear for sex and romance to click.”
Seymour, who has four children and has been married four times, claimed you may get it wrong at times, but we all seek intimacy no matter what age we are.
Seymour was with Michael Attenborough between 1971 and 1973, Geoffrey Planer from 1977 to 1978, David Flynn between 1981 and 1992 and James Keach from 1993 to 2015.
She shares her kids Katherine and Sean with Flynn and her twins Kristopher and John with Keach.
The “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” star went Instagram official with Zambetti in October 2023 by sharing photos of them engaging in some PDA at a dinner party on Instagram.
“I’ve never been happier. 🥰,” she captioned the post.
Seymour also revealed that she had lost herself in her past relationships, which is the reasoning behind why she decided to really live for herself now in her current relationship.
In fact, she said she was so into making herself happy that she was not interested in Zambetti at all when they first met.
“I was at my happiest, surrounded by friends and family literally, I think I had 16 of them in the house this one time, from my sisters and their husbands to cousins and even all the grandchildren,” she explained. “John was immediately exposed to who I really am. And so despite my active disinterest in romance at the time, he still appreciated me and the privilege it was to see my life. I let him be part of the gang.”
Seymour talked lovingly about her new boyfriend recently by saying, “He’s lovely and he’s obviously very intelligent, but also very supportive. Everyone I know loves him. They all adore him.”
Zambetti added, “We are both so happy and just enjoying the fact we have found each other.”
