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Forty feels like a kind of freedom: Katherine Heigl
Actor Katherine Heigl says that she’s “thrilled” about turning 40. She celebrated her birthday on November 24 and commemorated it with a long social media post.
The star of Suits and Grey’s Anatomy shared photos from her soiree. Standing in front of huge silvery balloons of the number 40, she grinned as she posed in a sweater and jeans. “Well... I am officially 40 years old. I know you are going to think I’m full of it but the truth is... I’m pretty damn thrilled to be 40,” she began her post.
A candle-lit room provided a festive backdrop. “For one thing, as my mother always says, ‘Getting older is better than the alternative’. Too true mother, too true,” she wrote.
“For another thing, 40 feels to me like a certain kind of freedom. Freedom from all the self-doubt, insecurities, selfloathing, uncertainties and anxieties of my 20s and 30s.”
Heigl further said: “Not to say I don’t still have those moments but I just feel like 40 makes me older and wiser. Steadier in my convictions. More certain of my strengths. More forgiving of my faults. I’ve spent the last five years... doing the work to evolve my mind and spirit. To move my heart towards a more profound and loving expression of my best self. I’ve read, studied, explored and practised ways to expand my understanding of myself and the world around me. I’ve clarified my deepest desires and found that all I really crave is well being. For myself and those I love.”