I ‘Let Go of the Need to Be Perfect’
Gwyneth Paltrow is celebrating an upcoming milestone birthday in style.
The actress, 49, shared a black-and-white photography of herself jumping while wearing a bikini on Instagram Thursday.
In the caption of her post, the Iron Man star wrote, “Musings on a milestone,” and directed her followers to a link in her bio to her Goop blogwhere she spoke candidly about her thoughts on turning 50 next week.
After looking back at both her mother Blythe Danner and father Bruce Paltrow‘s respective 50th birthdays, the mother of two wrote, “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,” she said.
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