Jane Fonda, 84, gives a very honest and blunt description of how she finds life at this age.
“I’m super-conscious that I’m closer to death, and it doesn’t really bother me that much,” she told CBS Sunday Morning this past weekend.
“What bothers me is that my body is, you know, basically not mine!” she continued. “My knees are not mine, my hips are not mine, my shoulder’s not mine. You’re looking at somebody who’s only me from [the neck] up.”
A sex symbol for many years and a screen star for 60, Fonda doesn’t look back with nostalgia too frequently. And she has a happy-go-lucky attitude when it comes to aging into her twilight years.
“The fact is if you’re alive and relatively healthy at an older — I mean, I’m almost 85,” she said, “the fact that I’m still alive and working, wow, who cares if I don’t have my old joints? And I can’t ski or bike or run anymore? Enh. You know, you can be really old at 60, and you can be really young at 85. Health!”
She also revealed she’s also given up drinking alcohol because of the way it affects her at this age.
“It’s because even with one drink, like, if I had a martini tonight, I would be at half-mast tomorrow,” she said. “Now, that wasn’t true when I was younger. But as you get older, I think alcohol affects you differently. And I only have so many tomorrows left. I don’t want to be at half-mast for any of them.”
A consummate political activist for 50 years, she’s not slowing down. Last year she continued her fight by joining the Ojibwe protests in Northern Minnesota against an Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline coming from Canada, citing damaging environmental consequences.
Fonda shocked American society and caused international political controversies in the ’70s for her opposition to the Vietnam War, earning her the nickname “Hanoi Jane.”
The star of Netflix series Grace & Frankie has also continued to model into her 80s. Back in October, she graced the cover of the Polish edition of Vogue – 62 years after she first appeared on the US Vogue cover in 1959.
Jane Fonda Says She Doesn’t Mind Being ‘Closer to Death’
