At Age 83 Jane Fonda Looks Twenty Years Younger And Gives Her Tips

Dec 08, 2020

All women wish to remain attractive as they grow older. We do our best to take care of ourselves and pay attention to the trends of today's world. However, father time has a way of making his presence seen and felt.

Actress Jane Fonda, who turned 83 years old on December 21, 2020, continues to astonish everyone by looking about two decades younger than she really is. Here are her tips on looking and feeling great.

From time to time, we see an example of unfaded beauty that provides us all with the optimism and inspiration we need. Jane Fonda is one of these examples, not only physically but also spiritually—she is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. However, the world cinema star does possess knowledge about beauty and aging that she is willing to share with us all. And while some of it is related to exterior beauty, some of it also applies to what's on the inside.

Jane Fonda first lit up the big screens in the 1960s. Her fans were thrilled by her performances in movies like Fun With Dick And Jane, A Doll's House, Better Living Through Chemistry, and of course the classics Barbarella and Klute. Fonda left Hollywood a few times over the years but she always returned to thrill fans once more. There was also a time when Fonda was known for her aerobics workout videos.

In a 2019 interview with Vogue, Fonda was open about some of the many health scares she's endured in her 83 years. From cancer to her mastectomy and osteoporosis, she did speak of a powerful sentiment that perhaps provides some insight into how she manages to keep on going at her age. She said:

“I didn’t think I’d ever ever live this long—or feel that I’m whole or getting whole. I feel very intentional about realizing that it’s up to me how this last part of my life goes.”

Alongside her contributions to feminism and the way a woman ages, Fonda has been known to make waves with her political activism. She nearly lost her career after making a visit to North Vietnam in the 1970s. The media called her a traitor and the reverberations were felt throughout the world. In September 2020 she released a book titled What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair to Action, inspiring activists and regular people to step up and make a difference.

Through it all, Fonda is a legend of the big screen, writer, philanthropist, and model. And now she will tell us how she has apparently slowed down the hands of time.

Though she is many years past the days when she produced workout videos, Fonda never stopped exercising. She combines her regular workout regimen with great nutrition. The temperature of the skin is increased during exercise and this stimulates collagen production. This process helps to maintain the elasticity of the skin.

Not only does growing older not have to be a bad experience but it can also be quite beautiful. Fonda lives a life filled with optimism and feels this is one of the main components to remaining beautiful in her senior years.

Too many people believe they are unable to give up bad habits once they have indulged in them for a period of time. However, Jane Fonda knows this is not the reality. The great health and glowing beauty Fonda enjoys at 83 years of age is evidence that she knows exactly what she is talking about.

Unhealthy hair can give away the age of a woman just as quickly as skin that is not properly treated. However, hair that is well maintained will help maintain a youthful appearance.

Things like bitter comments and harsh criticisms can disrupt the balance in your life. Fonda provides a rule that has helped her with this problem. She instructs others to not pay attention to comments unless they are worthy of your attention. One look at a photo of Fonda and you will see her impenetrable demeanor.

Jane Fonda explains that the importance of sleep quality increases as we grow older. Her advice is to make sure you get the sleep now that you once ignored in your youth.

So according to Jane Fonda, the secrets to maintaining a youthful appearance and attitude are staying active, being positive, keeping good habits, caring for your hair, staying calm, and ensuring you get enough sleep. While these tips might seem obvious, we all know that it's all too easy to fall off and forget about looking after ourselves, especially when life is busy. Her simple, no-nonsense guide is relatively easy to uphold and is a reminder that it's important to take time out for ourselves, as it will have a ripple effect on the rest of our lives.

Although Jane Fonda's words of wisdom would be true coming from anybody, they're particularly meaningful coming from her. As an accomplished actress, model, environmentalist, and activist, Fonda has broken the mold for what a celebrity can do and that is truly inspiring. Let's take a look at her incredible life.

The daughter of actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was born on December 21, 1937, in New York City. Named after Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, she was actually distantly related to her on her mom's side. Allegedly because of this, the young Jane Fonda was called "Lady" in reference to "Lady Jane" up until the fourth grade.

One year after her birth, her parents had another child, a son named Peter Fonda, who would also go on to have a high-profile acting career just like his older sister. But before the famous siblings even became adults, tragedy struck in the family. When Jane Fonda was 12, her mother took her own life while undergoing treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

In 2018, Fonda opened up to People Magazine about her mother's death, stating:

“If you have a parent who is not capable of showing up, not capable of reflecting you back through eyes of love, it has a big impact on your sense of self."

She goes on to say that as a child, you think it's your fault. But while writing her 2005 memoir My Life So Far, Fonda was able to access medical records and "really try to figure her out." She adds that she "never knew her because she suffered from bipolarity." Ultimately she was able to understand her mother better and find a resolution after many decades. She said:

“When you go through that kind of research…if you can come to answers, which I was able to do, you end up being able to say, ‘It had nothing to do with me,'” Fonda says. It wasn’t that I wasn’t lovable. They had issues,” she adds. “And the minute you know that, you can feel tremendous empathy for them. And you can forgive.”

Clearly a very formative experience in her life, another one would come less than a decade later, when in 1958 she met Lee Strasberg. After attending Vassar College for a short while before dropping out and heading to Paris for six months, Fonda's meeting with Strasberg upon her return to the States led to her decision to take up acting. She said of the meeting:

"I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father–who had to say so–told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!"

The rest, as they say, is history. Fonda's career began on the theater stage in the late 1950s before moving into films. From 1960 onwards, she made roughly two films a year throughout the decade. While her work was celebrated—she won a Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe Award in 1962—she also had her detractors. But by 1965's Cat Ballou, she had her breakthrough and by the end of the decade, she was already being selective about the film roles she was taking, even turning down the leads in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby.

The '70s saw Fonda win her first Academy Award in 1971 for Klute, while a second followed in 1978 for Coming Home. It was during this period of critical acclaim that she began to act in fewer movies and as she stated, mostly just in ones that focused on important issues. By the decade's end, Jane Fonda would get her wish of acting alongside her father Henry Fonda in the movie On Golden Pond. Both of them earned Academy Award nominations—the first father and daughter to do so for the same movie—and although she didn't win, Henry Fonda did. However, Jane Fonda accepted it on his behalf as he was too ill to attend the ceremony. Only five months later he would pass away.

Fonda kept on acting but also began to diversify into other areas including a highly successful aerobics franchise in the '80s before she officially retired from acting in 1991. But while she was gone for nearly 15 years, she eventually made her way back to the screen in 2005's Monster-in-Law. Since then she's acted on both the stage and screen as well as keeping up her activist work. In 2018 there was even a documentary made about her life titled Jane Fonda in Five Acts. 

From her acting work to her passion for good causes, Jane Fonda is an inspiration to us all. Considering everything she's achieved in her still very active life, it'd be smart to take a leaf out of her book.

Did you know about the rich life Jane Fonda has lived? Are you gonna try any of her beauty tips? Let us know in the comments and be sure to spread the word about these beauty secrets. We bet many of your friends would love to read more about them!