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A black-and-white photo on the first page of Cameron Diaz’s The Longevity Book, out now, shows the 43-year old entertainer holding a framed picture of herself taken 15 years ago.
The 28-year old woman inside the frame is holding another portrait of the actress’ 22-year old self, who is also holding a snapshot of a 16-year old girl who hadn’t yet starred in films like Charlie’s Angels and The Mask, but had already begun the natural cycle we all go through: aging.
Following the success of her 2013 release, The Body Book, Diaz says her attention shifted toward understanding the science behind getting older as a means to open women’s eyes to embracing the art of aging instead of fearing a judgmental, youth-obsessed society.
Thus The Longevity Book was born, a self-help exploration that doesn’t serve as a standard guide to superficial beauty, but rather a science-backed exploration of what propels our bodies into their later years.
Per The Longevity Book’s opening page, it’s “Dedicated to your journey,” though you can read Diaz’s thoughts on her own – and inspiring other women along theirs – in the interview below.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In The Longevity Book, you say you’re not aiming to provide a how-to on anti-aging or looking younger, but rather showing women how to view aging as natural and healthy.
Do you think you would have been able to write The Longevity Book if you felt 100 percent comfortable with the process of aging? Why do you think that anxiety is t for so many women?I think it’s because we don’t understand it.
In the book you trace different anti-aging techniques used throughout history, so the desire for youth has always been t, but do you think we’re reaching a point w a superficial value on aging is disappearing?I think hopefully, with this book, with people being given permission to not make it a superficial thing, that it doesn’t have to just live on the surface, that we can actually go deeper.
What more should be done to educate women on these types of lifestyle changes?I think that’s pretty much what led me to write the book; We had to search really hard for all the information in the book in so many different places, and then we had to culminate it and put it together.