{"id":35498,"date":"2025-10-17T03:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/helen-mirren-80-says-there-are-great-advantages-to-growing-older\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:51:38","slug":"helen-mirren-80-says-there-are-great-advantages-to-growing-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/helen-mirren-80-says-there-are-great-advantages-to-growing-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren, 80, says there are &#8216;great advantages&#8217; to growing older"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f19ba81c1f80efbec5c244?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Helen Mirren\"\/><figcaption>Helen Mirren<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Helen Mirren says she loves &quot;everything&quot; about aging and being 80.<\/li>\n<li>She says she is skeptical of the modern obsession with longevity and biohacking.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;They&#039;re thinking of being 30 for 150 years. And that&#039;s just not the way the world or nature works,&quot; she said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 80, Helen Mirren says the secret to aging well is enjoying every part of it.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Allure published on Tuesday, the actor said she finds &quot;everything&quot; about being 80 fabulous.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Fuck it, I&#039;m alive and I&#039;m working and I can drink a glass of wine and I can wear makeup and I can listen to music and I can watch a beautiful sunset and I can go to the theater and I can watch a movie and I can binge Netflix and I can live life. It&#039;s a beautiful thing,&quot; Mirren told Allure.<\/p>\n<p>However, aging comes with its downsides, including losing some of the thickness in her hair, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic also made her feel like she&#039;d lost two precious years of her life, especially &quot;when you realize you don&#039;t have that many years left,&quot; Mirren said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, the &quot;Thursday Murder Club&quot; actor says she is skeptical of the modern obsession with longevity and biohacking.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I mean, already the age I am is probably way past the age I would&#039;ve lived to 100 years ago,&quot; she said. &quot;But I think it&#039;s a bit of a dream and a fantasy [that life extension stuff], because when they think of being 150, they don&#039;t think of actually being 150 years old. They&#039;re thinking of being 30 for 150 years. And that&#039;s just not the way the world or nature works.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mirren doesn&#039;t have a beauty routine, but says her biggest beauty tip is to avoid smoking. She also doesn&#039;t avoid the sun, but wears sunblock on her face and body.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I love sunbathing and everyone says you&#039;re not supposed to do that, but I just love the sun,&quot; Mirren said.<\/p>\n<p>As for people who dread growing older, Mirren has a simple message: &quot;You can be as afraid as you like, but that&#039;s not going to change anything. It&#039;s going to happen. So live with it,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, the idea of turning 30 seemed &quot;awful,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And then you get to be 30. And you know what? It&#039;s great being 30, actually, I think 30 to 40 is the best age of all, and you do not want to be 16 again. It&#039;s fabulous, being 30, and likewise 40, 50, 60, and beyond,&quot; Mirren said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are disadvantages, no question. But there are also great advantages. And you learn this as you travel through life,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mirren added that she is eager to see what the younger generations &quot;make of the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s their turn. I&#039;ve had my turn, and now it&#039;s theirs. And that&#039;s the natural order of things,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Times in April, Mirren said it&#039;s &quot;never too late&quot; for people in their 50s and 60s to start exercising.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It doesn&#039;t have to be joining a gym. It can be small changes like taking a short walk or practicing yoga, which I still enjoy,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mirren&#039;s go-to workout is a 12-minute military routine developed by the Royal Canadian Air Force in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Mirren did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Mirren isn&#039;t the only celebrity who has spoken up about what it&#039;s like to grow older in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Elizabeth Banks, 51, said her antiaging routine consists of sleep, water, and a positive mindset.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s your attitude. Getting rid of negative self-talk and just being positive about how you feel about yourself,&quot; Banks said.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Nicole Kidman, 58, said the &quot;best part&quot; of growing older is all the experiences she&#039;s accumulated.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So you go, &#039;Oh, I&#039;ve been here before. I actually know how to handle this now.&#039; Or, &#039;Maybe I haven&#039;t been in this place, but I&#039;ve experienced something similar to this, and I do know that I will get through it,&#039;&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Mirren Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images Helen Mirren says she loves &quot;everything&quot; about aging and being 80. She says she is skeptical of the modern obsession with longevity and biohacking. &quot;They&#039;re thinking of being 30 for 150 years. And that&#039;s just not the way the world or nature works,&quot; she said. 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