{"id":39563,"date":"2025-11-27T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/linda-hamilton-69-says-she-doesnt-want-to-chase-longevity\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:32:35","slug":"linda-hamilton-69-says-she-doesnt-want-to-chase-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/linda-hamilton-69-says-she-doesnt-want-to-chase-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Hamilton, 69, says she doesn&#8217;t want to &#8216;chase longevity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6927cb92abd5e944effba185?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Linda Hamilton.\"\/><figcaption>Linda Hamilton, 69, says she isn&#039;t chasing beauty or longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Buckner\/Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Linda Hamilton, 69, says she is embracing the lines on her face.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I have just completely surrendered to the fact that this is the face that I&#039;ve earned,&quot; the actor said.<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton said her twin sister&#039;s death five years ago pushed her to start tackling her bucket-list goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Linda Hamilton, 69, says she&#039;s feeling at home in her own skin.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to AARP in an interview published on Wednesday, the &quot;The Terminator&quot; actor said she wants to age with grace by embracing the lines and features that show the life she has lived.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I do not spend a moment trying to look younger on any level, ever. I have just completely surrendered to the fact that this is the face that I&#039;ve earned. And it tells me so much. And sometimes it&#039;s stuff I don&#039;t want to hear,&quot; Hamilton told AARP.<\/p>\n<p>At this point in her life, there are more important things to worry about than her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#039;t chase beauty, and I don&#039;t chase longevity particularly,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Hamilton said she aims to stay healthy while living &quot;fully planted in the moment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But not all the time \u2014 sometimes it is just a jelly donut. I&#039;m not rigid, which is a fantastic way to get older,&quot; she said, adding that she&#039;s tried &quot;to stay as fluid as possible&quot; throughout her life.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One definition of happiness is being in the middle of a fast-moving river and not trying to swim to the left or the right side. And that, truly, is kind of what my life has been. It&#039;s been a great, fun ride,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who stars in the latest and final season of &quot;Stranger Things,&quot; said she attends physical therapy three times a week to stay in shape for her role.<\/p>\n<p>She added that her workouts change depending on what her body needs that day.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was Pilates, it was yoga, a lot of free weights, machines, cables, everything. And I kind of love that: to go in and not have a chest and back day, but just have a &#039;what do you need to loosen up and stretch out today,&#039;&quot; Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>Embracing aging also means finally taking on the bucket-list items she&#039;d delayed, a change she said was fueled by her twin sister&#039;s death five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It sure did shake me up a little bit, the huge loss of my other half. I started doing some bucket-list things. I started jumping horses again after 40 years,&quot; Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that, she&#039;s found plenty to appreciate about getting older.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I fully inhabit myself in a way that I never did when I was younger. I&#039;m not trying to please anyone or prove anything or show off,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton added that she&#039;s satisfied with her career, and that she&#039;d found &quot;a great balance between work and life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And yet I&#039;m managing to still be part of my community and not leave all my friends behind because I&#039;m working. I have found a way to weave it together very beautifully. I certainly feel like everything is a blessing right now,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has spoken about aging in the past, too.<\/p>\n<p>In an October 2019 essay for Glamour, Hamilton said she&#039;s proud to be her age.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I keep saying, &#039;Why does 40 have to be the new 60? Why can&#039;t 60 be the new 60? Why do we have to color everything with this idea of eternal youth?&#039;&quot; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Us Weekly in November 2019, she criticized Hollywood&#039;s obsession with youth and her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Of course people are going to look at me and say &#039;Oh, she got old.&#039; Yes, I did, and I have so much more to say as a strong, experienced life-ridden woman,&quot; Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Hamilton, 69, says she isn&#039;t chasing beauty or longevity. Michael Buckner\/Variety via Getty Images Linda Hamilton, 69, says she is embracing the lines on her face. &quot;I have just completely surrendered to the fact that this is the face that I&#039;ve earned,&quot; the actor said. 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