In one among her pleasant “first dip” movies, Tracee Ellis Ross shared an Instagram submit  of herself twirling round a pool this weekend. “You recognize what time it’s: It’s time for the primary dip,” she stated, reducing herself into the water.” Whereas it was a wonderful, sun-soaked second, she additionally didn’t draw back from how she experiences minor aches and pains. After swanning round for a couple of seconds, Ross seemed on the digital camera and stated, “I simply need you to know I simply bent my knee. Simply bent it—and it harm. I used to be like, Ouch.”

The knee ache, Ross defined, is a well-recognized feeling. “[Ouch] is strictly what occurs after I get up within the morning now,” she stated. “I get up, at 50, sizzling as ever, and it’s as if somebody beat me up whereas I used to be sleeping.”

To counter this, Ross stated, she will get some motion in very first thing within the morning. “That’s how I get up—Ouch, ooh, ooh, ooh—after which I’ve to stretch. Who knew that was really going to be actual? It’s actual, guys.”

Ross isn’t pressed about what we have to do to remain feeling good, although, if the “sizzling as ever” point out didn’t give that away: In a 2022 interview with Glamour, Ross defined her ideas on our tradition’s anti-aging obsession, saying, “I believe it’s an honor to age, and so many individuals draw back from it and don’t wish to inform their age. I like getting older. I take a look at ladies who’re steps forward of me and see a lot magnificence and knowledge in them.” 

And in a 2021 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she stated she was decided to remain assured as she will get older: “I’m the sexiest I’ve ever been, and after I say that, I imply I really feel probably the most myself,” she defined.

Ross isn’t alone in embracing—and having fun with—her physique, no matter it’s doing in a given second. As Viola Davis commented on Ross’s submit, “Yup! Me, too!! However you put on it properly sis (50)!”

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