We would all do well to take a page from Renee Zellweger when it comes to making another trip around the sun each year. At 50, Renee not only looks more stunning than ever, she just delivered what’s being hailed as perhaps the best performance of her career in her turn as Judy Garland, the star of the new film, “Judy.” In a new interview with InStyle for the magazine’s December cover story, Renee reflects on how she looks at 50, saying that like other ages, it’s a time to be proud of what she’s achieved — and grateful she’s done with a large degree of the struggling that’s often involved in showbusiness for your actors. “It doesn’t consume me because it’s inevitable; it’s a privilege,” she says. “I’d rather celebrate each phase of my life and be present in it than mourn something that’s passed. I don’t want to miss this moment to be something that I used to be … That’s for someone else now. And good luck to them, because you have to survive a lot to move forward to your next state. … I’d rather be a healthy, productive woman in each stage of my life than apologetic. I also don’t want to perpetuate the notion that somehow moving forward in your life is wrong.” Adding that “it’s not aging, it’s growing,” Renee continues: “It’s acquisition of the most valuable things: experience and knowledge and grace and insight. … I think I felt like I had it together at 24. I look back and go, ‘Wow.’ I had to recognize that that was naïveté.”
