Drew Barrymore is officially in her carefree era.
The actress-turned-talk show host sat down with Hannah Waddingham on this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, where they both looked forward to turning 50 within the next year.
“I am so excited to turn 50! I’ll tell you what happened to me the other day,” Barrymore said, adding that she took her two daughters to the beach last weekend.
“I was like, ‘Ugh. I’m gonna take off my shirt and I’m gonna be in my bathing suit and I’m gonna run into the water and my thighs are gonna go like this,’” she recalled as she made a swinging motion with her hands.
Waddingham quickly jumped in to remind Barrymore that her thighs were doing what they should do for a woman, which she said was “cool.” Despite the Ted Lasso star’s words of encouragement, Barrymore continued to open up about her insecurities.
“I’m not vain but I’m still a woman. I’m still normal. I still have the same thoughts about my cottage cheese thighs,” she said, to which Waddingham chimed in, “You are also Drew Barrymore, for God’s sake, so you can do whatever you want.”
Barrymore then offered a positive ending to the story as she stood up and reenacted exactly what she did at the beach.
“So I got up and I literally pulled my swimsuit out of my butt and I ran to that beach,” she said. “Literally, my body just swinging in the wind and I thought, ‘I just don’t care anymore.’”
The actress has been open about aging (gracefully) — and all the fun things that come with it. During an October 2022 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, she revealed that she was in the “dead heat” of perimenopause, admitting that she felt “crazy” and that she “cried this morning over air conditioning.”
“Lately I feel like my body, my belly is full of, some type of, I don’t know, I would call it cortisol or cottage cheese, I’m not sure which it is. But, like, it’s not my belly,” she added. “And it doesn’t matter what I eat.”
If we all could look half as good at Barrymore at almost 50, we’d all consider ourselves lucky!
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.
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