Holly Willoughby is embracing ageing.
Holly Willoughby
The ‘This Morning’ presenter has decided to be grateful for the gift of life as she gets older and her body begins to change, admitting it is "really important" to look up rather than down.
The 40-year-old star said: “When you hit your forties, things change quite rapidly.
“We’re heading towards that kind of menopausal time, skin is changing, hair is changing, body’s changing. Having had a baby, the shape of your body completely changes.
“It’s really important to, rather than look down and go, ‘Oh, my God, look at everything that’s changing, I’m getting older, I’m getting more wrinkles, my t*** are around my knees’, you’ve sort of got to look up.”
The mum-of-three - who has children Harry, 12, Belle, ten, and seven-year-old Chester, with her husband, Dan Baldwin, a television producer, 46 - prefers to look at what incredible feats her body has achieved.
She said: “You have to go, ‘My body was able to carry a baby and my boobs breastfed three children, and they were fine’.
"You’ve got to kind of go, ‘Yes, my face is starting to sag and my eyes are bloodshot and the rest of it, but you know, I’m healthy and I’m OK’.
“Getting older is a privilege, because not everybody else gets to be here.”
The former model admitted she is trying to set a good example for her daughter.
Speaking on her friend Fearne Cotton's 'Happy Place' podcast, she added: “Having a daughter, I’m very aware of the example I set now in this stage. Belle is old enough to be watching me and I want to conduct myself in a way that when she gets to this stage, it’s like I am clearing the pathway for her.
“That’s how I feel about many things, not just about outward image. I have a responsibility there, to do this in a way that is a positive experience for all of us.”
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