Jennifer Aniston, 55, has an unapologetic approach to ageing. She loves to work out and take care of her bones and muscles, and does not want to think about her age or how the world views it.
In a recent interview, actor Jennifer Aniston bent the rules of ageing by openly discussing her body and how she views it, making shreds out of societal expectations of what a 55-year-old’s body should look and feel like. Ageing is a natural process that everyone goes through, but the feelings associated with it are completely personal. Society, however, loves to scrutinise women, and judge them for having any kind of outlook or agency that defies the acceptable global norms. Aniston wants nothing to do with this conservative standpoint. She opened up about her life in a candid manner and discussed her relationship with her own body, along with what fitness means to her in a recent interview with a leading international publication.
On how she stays fit, the actor told Allure, an international women’s magazine exclusively that she works out ‘minimum four times a week’. “If I’m working, sadly, sometimes I can only get in two or three, but as long as I get it in, that’s all that matters.” Aniston added that strength training, according to her, is the ‘most important thing for women in their 50s’. “If you lose muscle, your bones get brittle — osteoporosis. We fall down, we break a hip, and that’s a wrap.”
On what her relationship with her body is, as she is in her 50s, the ‘FRIENDS‘ star told the publication: “Well, we really love each other.” Elsewhere in the interview, the Hollywood A-lister said one has to love their body. “It’s doing the best it can. It’s been with us since the day we started, so we can’t be too hard on it…” Recalling an old exchange with someone that left a lasting impact on her, Aniston said: “I was working on a movie and there was an older man on set. I’d seen him on a couple of different jobs and he was just working, working, working. I go, ‘You are impressive. I mean, you just never stop.’ And he said, ‘I just don’t let the old man in.’ There was something about that.”
According to the ‘Just Go with It‘ actor, who loves to post videos of herself working out on her social media, it is important for a person to give their body the attention that it deserves. “For me personally, I loved my 30s, but my 20s were nothing. I was a nightmare. I didn’t understand working out until my 30s and 40s,” she stated in the interview.
Although she is in a better place when it comes to fitness, Aniston confessed that she does not have a very good relationship with sleep. “Sleep and I have a real hard relationship. I really want to love it and I am sure it wants to love me, but we have had a hard time, especially the last 10, 15 years. It’s just hard to shut the brain down, hard to tell the committee to stop talking.”
She partially blames the senseless consumption of news for it.
On how she takes care of mental health, Aniston — who was once married to actor Brad Pitt — said she meditates in the morning, and stretches before bed. “I’ve been really trying to work on my sleep hygiene, and I hate those words. I can’t stand ‘sleep hygiene’. I’ve been trying hard to put myself in bed during the week at 10 pm, turn everything off and then just sit there and let the world come crashing in. I’ve been trying to meet that challenge for myself,” she was quoted as telling the publication.
The 55-year-old added that just like many other people, she, too, struggles with it. And that some days are “great and on point”, and some days are not. “I’m a big believer in trying not to be hard on yourself because the world is so mean right now and so aggressive and negative. So why would we do it to ourselves?”
On how she views ageing, the actor told the interviewer that she approaches it with ‘positivity and gratitude’, and that she tries to not think about growing older. “I try not to think about age. The world will always be there telling us what your age is and what women should do in society when you’re this or that… We can make our own rules.”
It is very important to, like the actor pointed out, view ageing from the perspective of positivity and acceptance. As mentioned earlier, it is a natural process of life and one must simply embrace it, while trying to make their own rules as to how they want to live their life, by incorporating the best kind of habits in terms of working out, eating healthy, and having a normal sleep schedule. Celebrities are always under scrutiny, especially when they reach a certain age milestone. It is the same for regular people. The idea is to dull out all the exterior noise and be kinder to ourselves. Kudos to Aniston for speaking her mind and for showing the women of the world how to lead an unapologetic life.
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