Beloved Hollywood actress Ali MacGraw is mainly known for her epic portrayals in the 70s classics “Love Story” and “The Getaway.” On Thursday evening, the 84-year-old stepped out to dinner with a few companions, at a Mexican restaurant, which was more than thrilled to host her and posted a picture of the group of friends on their Facebook account.
A fully silver-haired MacGraw was seen cheesing as she posed for the picture amongst her friends. The “Just Tell Me What You Want” actress rocked a comfy-looking navy long-sleeved shirt with beige pants and eccentric metallic earrings that framed her beautiful make-up-free face.
Though the ageless beauty has recently taken to embracing her looks as they naturally progress with age, she did not always have an affinity for the carefree spirit that some women garner when it comes to aging. A few years ago, MacGraw expressed her fears about turning 80:
“In November, I started to wake up in the middle of the night thinking, ‘Oh my God, the rest of the trip is so short compared to the one behind me. I’m going to be 80.’ I’d never felt like that before.”
MacGraw felt as though she reached an age where she started to take more notice of the timeline of her mortality. She described being more consciously aware of how her past, dating back to her childhood, set the grounds for who she is today.
She goes on to say that there comes a point in one’s life where one must confront past mistakes and regrets head-on and walk through the fire (so to speak) to get to the other side. She no longer wanted to sit in anger and pretend that she has not been affected by negative experiences.
While speaking about how different her journey of self-discovery looks in her elder years vs. where she was in her youth, MacGraw credits the amount of work and concentration she put in to gain clarity. By putting a concentrated amount of focus into changing her perspective, she reports being happier in her senior years:
“I don’t want to sit in anger anymore, pretending everything’s wonderful because I want people to like me, but seething underneath. But that takes work and concentration to change, [and] I couldn’t have done it [alone]. So the years go by, [and] I’m lucky, I am blessed and happy, and doing the best I can.”..CONTINUE READING