After giving 40 a little bit of a rebrand (“I consider that when ladies flip 40, we get a software program improve”), Gwyneth says that turning 50 (on September 27) feels extra welcome and like much less of a problem than 40 did. “I really really feel nice turning 50,” she says. “I really feel actually fortunate that I’ve my well being (contact wooden) and power in my physique. I really feel like lots of the choices I made in my late 20s, my 30s, and my 40s are paying dividends now.”

We requested her to look again on a few of these choices, and we picked up recommendation and knowledge she’s collected alongside the way in which. “Getting older is a journey to figuring out your precise self,” she says. “It’s studying to completely embrace who you actually are.”

“I don’t suppose there are guidelines round whenever you cease sporting sure varieties of garments at a specific age. I wore the shortest skirt I’d worn in 10 years simply the opposite day: It was this outdated Chanel costume I discovered within the basement, and it labored. Folks ought to put on what they really feel good in.”

“On some stage culturally, we’ve completely redefined what 50 is for individuals, each internally and externally. I consider J.Lo—she form of seems to be one of the best she ever has, ? For therefore many ladies I do know, that is one of the best time to this point, the height time of their lives. So I’m comfortable at this huge birthday.

“I like whenever you see ladies who haven’t touched their face in any respect, who’re embracing each inch of their getting old. After which there are these ladies you take a look at and surprise, How can they be 78? How are they pulling that off? It needs to be some form of face-lift or different work, and I like that, too. Folks wanting the way in which they’d wish to look, feeling their greatest—that conjures up me.”

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“Cameron Diaz, who’s a detailed pal, is popping 50 a month earlier than me, and I love the way in which she embraces no matter age she is. She at all times goes proper earlier than me and offers me this nice preview.”

“My mother and father didn’t focus an excessive amount of on getting old. I bear in mind for my dad, 50 was a tough birthday—he was anxious. I ponder if he had some form of sixth sense, that he would die in his 50s; it appeared like he felt the finiteness of his life in that second. For my mother, turning 50 turned out to be one of many greatest nights of her life: My dad had requested everybody to write down a poem for her birthday, so it was this evening of pleasure—laughter, tears, every part.”

“The muse-building that I did once I was youthful was price doing—for my pores and skin and for my well being. I give up smoking at 24 (I began once more throughout The Royal Tenenbaums as a result of my character smoked a lot, received addicted once more, after which stopped once more).

“I used to be at all times energetic and performed sports activities at school—I used to be on the swim group, the volleyball group, and observe—and possibly I went to the health club a couple of instances within the ’90s, however beginning an Ashtanga yoga apply once I was 25 made a big impact. I met Eddie Stern, who’s a fantastic pal to this present day, and I used to be dedicated to it, went six days every week, and it remodeled my physique and my thoughts. I began to grasp that routines are necessary for me. It was the primary time I began to essentially take into consideration my well being, eat extra organically—all that stuff.”

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“I went to an all-girls faculty, and we had a uniform and I beloved it. To this present day, I’m a uniform individual. At school, the uniform was form of this preppy, basic base; then you definitely used every kind of equipment like bracelets or scarves to precise your self. I nonetheless love that concept of beginning with a form of basic framework after which going from there, increasing on that. And I’ve stayed fairly constant—once I look again at something that I wore again within the day, I often suppose, I’d nonetheless put on that.”

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“I felt loads of strain turning 30. And I believe it’s very younger—I don’t know why in our tradition we predict we’re already alleged to be married and on the prime of our profession by age 30. I bear in mind being 30 and never being married and pondering, I’m going to be such a disappointment to my mother and father. However 30 is whenever you’re nonetheless discovering out what’s best for you, and who’s best for you, and all that stuff.”

“We’re at all times getting some train in, even when it’s only a good lengthy stroll, making an attempt to observe the patterns individuals do within the Blue Zones: spend time with individuals we love and maintain nurturing our personal relationship.”

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“In highschool, I believed every part was mistaken with the way in which my physique seemed, and it wasn’t till I began doing Ashtanga yoga that I began to really feel extra assured. Then I had one other huge change in each my physique and my thoughts once I began Tracy Anderson—I’m nonetheless doing her exercises at present, and so they make me appear and feel so sturdy. They’re an enormous confidence increase.”

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“This could be an overstatement, however I really feel like all my issues—a minimum of till I used to be 45 years outdated—got here from my not eager to really feel my emotions. After which I lastly was like, Who offers a f*ck? Okay, I’ll cry, I’ll scream, after which I’ll nonetheless get up, hopefully, the subsequent morning.”

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“I began studying about (and making the change to) clear magnificence in my late 30s and early 40s, after making another modifications to cut back my poisonous load, like shifting towards natural meals, altering out the cleansing merchandise I used at house, that form of factor. I used to be shocked once I discovered about among the components which might be utilized in common magnificence merchandise. The place’s the luxurious in worrying about components that may hurt your well being? So I went clear and finally began making the clear magnificence merchandise I needed however couldn’t discover. I believe physique merchandise are necessary to go clear with—they arrive into contact with such a big portion of your physique.”

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“On days I’m not feeling as assured, I attempt to change the language just a little. I do not forget that I’m beloved no matter what I appear like, and I attempt to be accepting of change. I’m heading into a brand new chapter, and that requires a certain quantity of letting go.”

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