Gwyneth Paltrow is entering a new decade and like Jennifer Lopez earlier this year opted to celebrate her birthday with an artsy nude photo on her Instagram. Paltrow just turned 50 and unveiled a pic of herself in her birthday suit on the grid this morning. ⭐️50⭐️Paltrow captioned it. Within the first 15 minutes of her posting it over 42,000 people had liked it.
The post comes after Paltrow shared a photo of herself in a bikini on September 22 while reflecting on the milestone birthday.
On September 27 I will turn 50. As I sit here contemplating this idea in the late summer morning, no moisture in the air breeze moving only the tops of the trees, I strangely have no sense of time passed. I am as connected to this feeling of longing, of promise promise of the fall of something ebbing as I was 30 years ago. I understand on some level that life is linear, that I have lived x number of days thus far and I have more in the basket under my arm than I do in the field before me. But there is something about the sweetness of life that exists deep within me that is unchanged that will not change. It is the essence of the essence. It seems to be getting sweeter.
My body a map of the evidence of all the days is less timeless. A collection of marks and irregularities that dog ear the chapters. Scarred from oven burns a finger smashed in a window long ago the birth of a child. Silver hair and fine lines. The sun has left her celestial fingerprints all over me as if she soaked a brush in dark-taupe watercolor, flecking it over my skin. And while I do what I can to strive for good health and longevity, to stave off weakening muscles and receding bone, I have a mantra I insert into those reckless thoughts that try to derail me: I accept. I accept the marks and the loosening 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 my humanity.
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