13 Stars Who DGAF About Aging

“People tell me the 50s are the best time – I’m ready. That whole stigma of being over 40 and not being sexy anymore is fake news. We’re more vibrant because we have experience, we know our bodies. I have a friend who says that you always want to make sure it’s your life that you’re living – it’s a constant mantra.”– Good Housekeeping, May 2017

 “The best thing about being over 70 is being over 70. Certainly when I was 45, the idea of being 70 was like ‘Arghhh!’ but you only have two options in life: Die young or get old. There is nothing else. The idea of dying young when you’re 25 is kind of cool – a bit romantic, like James Dean. But then you realize that life is too much fun to do that.” —AARP The Magazine (December/January issue)

“I feel so much better as a person now than I did in my 20s, but most of the time I feel like I’m still a kid. There are days you feel like you are on top of it and you are OK and at peace with it; then there are the days you still feel 28 inside — until you catch that reflection or see a photograph and realize you aren’t anymore.” —  NewBeauty, March 2016 

“I feel like I felt when I was 28. My bones don’t hurt. I feel great. I actually feel better, more confident. When I was in my twenties, I wasn’t sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don’t have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, ‘So what if I fall, so what?’ I’m going to get back up.” — InStyle, April 2014

“I don’t acknowledge being in that age group [40s]. I have no idea what that means. I am eternally 12. I went walking in the street in a stitch onesie the other night with my daughter. I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, ‘Why? Why do that?’ If I weren’t in the public eye, would you know how old I was?” — PeopleStyle, November 2015 

“I wish more women had told me what happens at 40 — how much you integrate with yourself and you really stop worrying about what other people think about you. You kind of come into yourself in the most phenomenal way. Even though physically I don’t look like I looked when I was 25, nor would I want to, but I feel beautiful because I feel myself. I think the 40s are such a gift, and I feel more beautiful now than I did 10 years ago or 20 years ago.” — PeopleStyle, February 2016

“We have to stop wanting to look like that decade before. We have to stop coveting that. Let it go and embrace it now and really be OK. It’s easy to say, I guess, but that’s the goal.” — Yahoo! Beauty, February 2015 

“When I was a kid, I felt like I should be older because I was working and not really being a kid. Then when I was in my 20s, I was like, ‘I want to be a kid finally.’ Now, it’s the first time in my life that my age has met up with where my life is, and it’s perfect. I love being 40. I always felt not my age and now I feel my age and I love it. It feels comfortable.”  — The Ellen DeGeneres Show, May 2015 

“I’ve had more fun post-40 than I can remember – from a work point of view, a physical point of view, a psychotherapeutic point of view.” — Harper’s Bazaar, December 2014

“I don’t feel old. I feel excited about being 40. You can get away with a lot more in your 20s. You can get away with having one too many vodka tonics, and you can wake up in the morning and not have a puffy face. I couldn’t go out now and get rip-roaring drunk; I’d take a week to recover and I value my life too much. Plus, I have children.” — Net-a-Porter.com’s The Edit, October 2015 

“[My friend and I] were having this discussion the other day, somebody was like, ‘Uh, if I could just look like Kendall Jenner!’ I’m like, ‘Kendall Jenner is 12 years old [laughing], you are 44. Clearly you are going to need some other role models. You are going to kill yourself in an attempt to look like a child! It’s okay for Kendall Jenner to look like Kendall Jenner, and it’s okay for you to be fly and amazing and fit and a healthy 44-year-old woman.’ It’s okay to have a range of beauty ideals.” — PeopleStyle, May 2015 

“I’m excited about getting old. I feel like there’s much more freedom in aging and just going with the flow.”  — PeopleStyle, February 2016

“People don’t know me in my 40s. Perhaps I look different. Who doesn’t as they get older?! Ha. But I am different. I’m happy.” — PEOPLE,  October 2014