Gwyneth Paltrow is 50. The Academy Award-winning actress and Goop founder celebrated the milestone with a couple of awesome Instagram posts. She stripped down and posed in just gold body paint in one and leaped through the air in a bikini for the other. Both show off the incredible shape she stays in.
Paltrow shares her thoughts on turning 50 in a blog post and shares more photos and details from the gold body paint photo shoot at goop.com.
On her body at this age, she writes:
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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