‘I Really feel Precisely the Similar’

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• Minnie Driver opens up about societal beliefs of ageing in her new memoir Managing Expectations.

• She refuses to let her age outline what she will and can’t do, together with browsing, an exercise she’s loved for 25 years.

• “It bugs me the entire concept that I’ve to alter something about my life, as a result of I really feel precisely the identical on the within.”
  

Minnie Driver’s new memoir, Managing Expectations, is a set of essays that dives into a number of of life’s deepest topics together with motherhood, profession, love, and aging. As you in all probability know, the Good Will Looking star has had fairly the expansive, iconic performing profession—however that by no means means her glory days are behind her.

At 52, Driver is honed in on experiencing life totally (particularly after the current devastating lack of her mom), and he or she’s not letting age get in the best way of that—even relating to hopping on a surfboard and using the waves, a pastime she’s loved for the final 25 years.

“I don’t actually cease with the entire notion of getting older,” she just lately instructed Good Morning America. “It bugs me the entire concept that I’ve to alter something about my life, as a result of I really feel precisely the identical on the within.”

The actress additionally touched on ageing in promotion of her new partnership with Joico hair care. Voluminous curls have at all times been her signature look, and caring for them has modified as she’s gotten older.

“We affiliate shiny, wholesome, sturdy hair with youthfulness, and whereas I’m not advocating that anyone tries to look 25 once they’re over the age of fifty, I feel you possibly can embrace all of these items that need to do with well being, vigorousness and athleticism,” she instructed Entertainment Tonight. “Robust, wholesome hair says that to me, in order that’s why I at all times pursue that.”

As for the remainder of her, Driver isn’t essentially attempting to realize a sure “youthful” look—a aim anti-aging skincare and beauty procedures like Botox usually stress girls into. In 2020, she took to Twitter in opposition of the phrase “50 is the brand new 20,” as a result of though it could appear progressive on the floor, it goals to divert consideration from one’s precise age.

“Sick of this ‘50 is the brand new…[insert age here],’” she tweeted. “50 has at all times been 50. Girls had been beforehand simply anticipated to shrivel and settle for their husk. I suppose it should be terrifying to lots males if we truly burned brighter, hotter, extra formidable and emancipated from disgrace, the older we obtained.”

And that’s the mentality she continues to undertake immediately. Managing Expectations was her first memoir, however she’s motivated to maintain writing. “There have been so many extra tales that I couldn’t slot in,” she instructed Good Morning America. “So there’ll be one other set of essays in a sort of memoir kind in some unspecified time in the future, as properly.”

52 is way from the tip for Driver. In some methods, it’s just the start.

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