Kate Winslet Says There’s Power in Aging: ‘Women Become More Sexy’ in ‘Their 40s’
usmagazine.comLife is “too flipping short” to worry about aging, according to Kate Winslet. The actress opened up about embracing her changing appearance and why there’s “power” in getting older.“I’m 47, there are bits that don’t do what you want them to do anymore,” the Titanic star said during her Thursday, December 8, interview on BBC Radio 4‘s “Woman’s Hour.” She continued: “There’s something kind of fab about going, ‘Oh well, that’s just the way it is, isn’t it?'”Winslet went on to share that she wants women to stop pushing the narrative that the prime of their life ends when you get to 40. “I think women come into their 40s, certainly mid-40s, thinking, ‘Oh well, this is the beginning of the decline and things start to change and fade and slide in directions that I don’t want them to go in anymore.’ And I’ve just decided no.”She further explained that as women get older, “We become more woman, more powerful, more sexy.
We grow into ourselves more, we have the opportunity to speak and speak our mind and not be afraid of what people think of us, not care what we look like quite so much.
I think it’s amazing.”Winslet added: “Let’s go girls, let’s just be in our power. Why not?”Winslet’s stance on aging is something she wants to emphasize through her work.
In the first episode of I Am‘s season 3, she portrays Ruth — a concerned mother who struggles to help her daughter not be so heavily influenced by social media.
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