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When Samantha Jones declared \u201cI\u2019m forty f***ing five. I have nothing to hide,\u201d in Season 6 of Sex and the City,<\/em> Kim Cattrall delivered a line for the ages. More than 20 years later, Cattrall herself has been just as unbothered about aging in real life. As she celebrates her 70th birthday, the actress\u2019s decades of beauty and wellness interviews add up to a clear philosophy: doing what she wants, on her own terms. Here are the habits, rituals and hard-won lessons the forever icon has shared along the way.<\/p>\n Ask Cattrall for her number-one rule and she doesn\u2019t hesitate: \u201cSun protection! Sun protection! Sun protection!\u201d she told us in a 2023 interview. It\u2019s not just a two-word sound bite\u2014in a second NewBeauty<\/em> interview, she explained the logic: \u201cIt became more about protecting myself\u2014sun protection in particular, since my mom was diagnosed with skin cancer. It was more about taking care and being more aware and doing personal things that when I was younger, I just didn\u2019t take time for. I think that\u2019s where patience comes in. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n No 12-step routine here. Asked about her go-to products in that same NewBeauty<\/em> interview, Cattrall named a decades-old drugstore staple: Dove Bar Soap for Sensitive Skin ($2).<\/p>\n \u201cMy beauty regime consists mostly of moisturizer,\u201d Cattrall told Woman & Home.<\/em> With sensitive skin, she said she\u2019s not interested in a crowded shelf of actives\u2014just consistency, hydration and letting her skin, in her words, \u201cbreathe.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI work out every other day. I try to do cardio three or four times a week,\u201d she told Woman & Home<\/em>\u2014alongside a lighter, low-pressure approach to food: \u201cI joke that I\u2019ve been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true. I can eat that today, but tomorrow I\u2019m not going to.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked how she unwinds, Cattrall\u2019s answer to NewBeauty<\/em> was three simple things: \u201cA cool shower. A cup of tea. A good book.\u201d She\u2019s also spoken about the restorative power of a good walk, specifically around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park: \u201cIt\u2019s open all year and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with The Sunday Times<\/em>, Cattrall discussed trying fillers and Botox without apology. \u201cI\u2019m all about battling aging in every way I can,\u201d she said, adding there are \u201cso many different things you can investigate and try and see if it\u2019s for you.\u201d Her caveat: It has to be done by the right person. \u201cIf you have the money and, more importantly, the right surgeon\u2014it can\u2019t be emphasized enough. You want to look like you.\u201d<\/p>\n In that same Sunday Times<\/em> conversation, Cattrall framed upkeep as professional as much as personal: \u201cIt\u2019s not just a vanity thing,\u201d she said. \u201cI play a certain kind of woman who looks a certain kind of way. And professionally, I am looking after myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Cattrall has been candid that aging in Hollywood came with real outside challenges. In an interview with People<\/em>,<\/em> she said: \u201cIn my 50s, I felt things slipping away,\u201d describing scripts that got thinner and roles that narrowed to \u201can ingenue or a leading lady and then a divorced wife or a cougar. And I\u2019m none of those things.\u201d <\/p>\n Rather than shrink to fit the categories offered to her, she said she\u2019s chosen to keep asking a bigger question instead: \u201cThe biggest mystery of life is what now?\u201d She\u2019s echoed that same realism in an interview with Grazia UK, <\/em>pushing back on unrealistic expectations of stars her age: \u201cPeople expect you to [look] 20, 30 years younger? That\u2019s not possible, even with all the potions and procedures and lasers and regimes and diets. It\u2019s unrealistic.\u201d <\/p>\n Her summary of the decades, from that same conversation: \u201cI\u2019ve been celebrated, I\u2019ve been decimated, I\u2019ve been befriended, I\u2019ve been betrayed. Along the way, you try to find peace within.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Samantha Jones declared \u201cI\u2019m forty f***ing five. 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Her holy grail cleanser costs about a dollar.<\/h2>\n
She keeps the rest of her skin care simple, too.<\/h2>\n
Movement is a must, but it doesn\u2019t need to be extreme.<\/h2>\n
Self-care, for her, is refreshingly low-key.<\/h2>\n
She\u2019s open about injectables\u2014with one condition.<\/h2>\n
She doesn\u2019t separate the beauty work from the career.<\/h2>\n
Her real secret might be her attitude about getting older in the first place.<\/h2>\n