Woman of the people, Holly Willoughby, wasn’t afraid to share her thoughts on getting older in the spotlight last week. While chatting to long-term pal Fearne Cotton on her podcast, Happy Place, Holly spoke about how turning 40 had made her think differently about her body.
“We’re heading towards that kind of menopausal time, skin is changing, hair is changing, body’s changing,” she said last week. “Even having had a baby, the shape of your body completely changes. It’s really important in those moments, 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 tits are around my knees’, you’ve sort of got to look up with it.”
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The TV presenter explained how she’d grown to appreciate her body for what it had given her. “My body was able to carry a baby and my boobs breastfed three children, and they were fine… You’ve got to go, ‘Yes, my face is starting to sag, and my eyes are bloodshot and the rest of it, but, like, I’m healthy and I’m OK’. Getting older is a privilege because not everybody else gets to be here.”
In her recent book, Reflections, Holly revealed that she was not averse to getting surgery in the future. She revealed, “Will I have any beauty procedures, or cosmetic procedures as I get older? The answer is, I don’t know yet. I probably will indulge in a few – I’m reserving the right to decide how I feel about all that when I get there. What I do know for sure is that I want any decision to come from a positive place where I enjoy getting a little boost, and not a negative place where I think I need to be ‘fixed’ outwardly in some way.”
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And while she rarely speaks about her marriage to Dan Baldwin, Holly divulged on her relationship with the TV producer and she'd learned to cope with the niggles of sharing a life with someone.
“If you find yourself getting disproportionately angry about something that seems minor, think less about what actually happened and more about what the situation represents,” she wrote. “I get angry with my husband when he makes a flippant comment about the TV, but actually I’m angry because I subconsciously feel as though someone’s trying to control what I’m doing. My husband absolutely isn’t trying to control me, but I’m getting a really strong reaction, so maybe I’m worried about control in my life. Maybe that’s a sign I need to address the issue of control.”