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Here\u2019s something that might remind you of the passing of time: Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet is celebrating her 50th birthday. The film star that so many of us grew up alongside (being that she starred in her first film, Heavenly Creatures<\/em>, aged just 17) is marking her half-century today (5th October).<\/p>\n Getting older is often bound up in existential dread, regardless of age, but Winslet doesn\u2019t seem to mind \u2013 at least, not in the way that women have relentlessly been made to believe that we should. Instead of running from her fine lines or a newfound penchant for wool socks (or is that just me?), she says things like: \u201cI am proud of my wrinkles. They tell the story of my life, of who I am, and where I have been\u201d. Or, \u201cWomen get more beautiful as they get older. Our faces become more of who we are, they sit better on our bone structure, they have more life, more history. Things I find incredibly beautiful are wrinkles around the eyes, the backs of hands.\u201d<\/p>\n Hmm, you haven\u2019t seen the backs of my hands, Kate, about which I once joked to a colleague, \u201cThey look like they belong to a 90-year-old\u201d and she replied, \u201cOh, they actually do.\u201d I was in my early-30s at the time.<\/p>\n This sort of insidious stuff is exactly why we need Winslet\u2019s brand of ageing. She\u2019s neither self-deprecating, nor in denial (see: Mariah Carey recently declaring<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t know time. I don\u2019t know numbers\u201d). Instead, her approach is to be utterly unapologetic, with that dependable Head Girl energy that we\u2019ve come to expect from her over the years.<\/p>\n None of the above should be radical. Why wouldn\u2019t Winslet celebrate getting older, wiser and more beautiful? Except, from where I\u2019m sitting, it does look pretty radical now, in a world where women are almost expected to get an entirely new face the second they hit 40. Of course, what you choose to do with your appearance is entirely down to you, but it certainly helps me quieten my own inner critic, at least for a few minutes, when a Hollywood actor like Winslet shrugs off the pressure around growing older as though it\u2019s the least interesting thing about her. Which it is. She has an entire Wiki page<\/a> dedicated to her numerous awards. She\u2019s an actor at the top of her game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s something that might remind you of the passing of time: Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet is celebrating her 50th birthday. The film star that so many of us grew up alongside (being that she starred in her first film, Heavenly Creatures, aged just 17) is marking her half-century today (5th October). Getting older is often<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1834,61,277,1831,1832,1835,1836,1833],"class_list":{"0":"post-5109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle","8":"tag-ageing","9":"tag-approach","10":"tag-era","11":"tag-faces","12":"tag-kate","13":"tag-profoundly","14":"tag-refreshing","15":"tag-winslets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}