Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Letter to my younger self

Joanna Lumley Actress

“Being 70 is fabulous. I’ve always just felt like me, so the numbers are incidental.”

I’ve always loved getting older, so being 70 is fabulous. I’ve always just felt like me, so the numbers are incidental. You never lose the little you who is within you. We are like trees – we grow more and more circles and more layers as we grow older, but inside us is always the person you were when you were tiny. To be 70 and still working, I’ve been very lucky. Mind you, I’ve also worked jolly hard. I would tell my younger self that one is powerless

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