Gwyneth Paltrow poses in bikini & hugs ‘wrinkles’ before day 50
Gwyneth Paltrow will soon light candles for her 50th birthday, but until then, she’s contemplating how much this milestone means to her.
The Iron Man The actress posted a black and white bikini photo on Instagram on September 22, to which she linked to a lengthy personal essay on self-acceptance. As Paltrow approaches her own special day on September 27, she says she feels the weight of the moment is a time of maturity and reflection.
She reflected on how aging has changed her body, including “gray hair and wrinkles”.
“My body, an all-day proof map, is less timeless,” she wrote. “Scar from a furnace burn, a broken finger on a window long ago, the birth of a child.”
However, Paltrow said she has accepted the signs of age on her body.
“And while I do what I can to strive for good health and longevity, to prevent muscle weakness and bone retraction, I have a spell that I insert into my thoughts. That field tries to derail me: I accept,” she wrote. Goop, the website of her health and lifestyle company. “I accept the lines and loose skin, the wrinkles. I accept my body and let go of the need to be perfect, look perfect, defy gravity, defy logic, defy humanity. I accept who I am.”