Charlize Theron Shares Her Secrets to Aging
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Photo by JB Lacroix/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Charlize Theron says that “choosing to be a mom in my late 30s has been really great for me. It’s given me perspective.”
The actress, 39, is mother to 3-year-old Jackson, and she recently sat down with W magazine to talk about aging and what she’s learned over the years.
“I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged. Women, in our society, are compartmentalized so that we start to feel like we’re cut flowers and after a while we will wilt. I realize now that’s not the case—we can celebrate every age,” the Oscar winner said.
She added, “That’s my encouragement to 20-year-olds who are terrified of getting older: Don’t have a nervous breakdown and don’t hit the Chardonnay too hard. Getting older is not that bad.”
When asked if she had any advice to her 20-year-old self, she replied, “I would say, ‘Calm down.’ I was always in a rush.”
“I felt like time was going to run out. Now that I’m older, I know I’m not missing out on anything. Now, I go home, and that feels really good. When I hit 30, I realized I didn’t have to please everybody. I could actually enjoy life, which is not a bad thing at all.”
Theron recently also spoke out about how she and boyfriend Sean Penn found love and what she finds attractive about her fellow Oscar winner.
“He is hot. How do you say that in an interview? You’re a forty-year-old woman sounding like a sixteen-year-old. There’s something beautiful about that, but you lack the articulation of really saying what it’s like when somebody walks into your life and makes you see something that you really never thought you’d be able to see. If somebody had said to me, ‘This is what it will be,’ I would’ve said, ‘F*** off.’ As you can see, it makes me smile,” she told Esquire magazine.
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