50 years of Gwyneth Paltrow, 'I accept myself as I am' - Lifestyle

At 40 he was in despair, at 50 he feels really good.

Another Hollywood star reaches the milestone of half a century: it is Gwyneth Paltrow, who on September 27 blows out the candles happy to be as she is and accepting all the effects that aging entails.

And she says it loud and clear in an Instagram post where she shows off in top shape as she jumps in a bikini.

'Reflections on a milestone', you read in the caption of the shot.

Then follows a sort of essay in which she reflects on her physical and mental condition of her on the threshold of 50 years.

She says she strangely has no perception of the time that has passed, even though her body is less 'eternal'.

"My body - she explains - is a map of the test of all these days ...

    Scars from oven burns, a finger shattered in a window pane long ago, the birth of a child.

    White hair and small wrinkles. "The actress, in 1999 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the film 'Shakespeare in Love', then goes on to explain that she does everything possible to be healthy and to have longevity, to prevent muscle relaxation and weakening bones. "I have a mantra - he says - I insert in those dangerous thoughts that try to mislead me: I accept it".

    Emphasize that she accepts the signs and sagging of her skin, the wrinkles, her body and lets go of the need to be perfect, to look perfect, to defy gravity, logic, humanity.

"I accept my humanity," she says.

For Gwyneth Paltrow it is a completely different change of view from her when she turned 40.

She was interviewed last July by Willie Geist of 'Sunday TODAY' aired on Nbc, she the actress confessed to being scared and anxious about the idea, especially for the culture of the image in which she had grown up.

    Now he sees the 50 milestone as an extraordinary 'software update'.

"I would never go back to my twenties or thirties - she told People -. I know myself, I like myself as I am and I am grateful for the wisdom that has come with age."

Daughter of art, her father was the director Bruce Paltrow, her mother the actress Blythe Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow made her screen debut at just nineteen in 'Shout' (1991) alongside John Travolta.

In his career he has played different roles from 'Sliding doors' to 'Mr Ripley's Talent', from 'Love at first oversight' to 'Tenenbaum', from 'Possession' to 'Proof', for which he won a second Golden Globe, from 'Iron man' to the Avengers saga.

    In addition to the cinema, between 2010 and 2011 she also gave herself a parenthesis on the small screen, participating as a guest star in some episodes of the Fox television series 'Glee', in which she played the alternate Holly Holliday, a role that would have won her also an Emmy Award.

In 2008 you launched the 'Goop' wellness brand.

The actress has two children, Apple, 18, and Moses, 16, with ex-husband Chris Martin, leader of Coldplay.

In 2018 she married producer Brad Falchuk, whom she met in 2010 on the set of the Glee series.

(HANDLE).