Tina Fey On Aging And Body Changes In Her 50s<\/p>\n
From Halle Berry<\/a> to Gwyneth Paltrow, more and more celebs in their 50s and 60s are opening up about the unexpected changes that come with aging and menopause<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now, the latest famous face to join the conversation is the wonderful and hilarious Tina Fey<\/a>.<\/p>\n For context, Tina has never been one to shy away from an honest conversation about aging, having previously said that getting older as a woman in Hollywood is “a glorious act of bravery<\/a>.”<\/p>\n With that in mind, navigating age is a central theme in her Netflix show, The Four Seasons, which is based on the 1980s film of the same name. And in a new interview with Today<\/a>, Tina \u2014 who writes and acts on the show \u2014 talked about how she and her creative team aren’t afraid to delve into their own personal experiences when it comes to writing jokes about their mortality.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re all pretty much the same age,” said Tina, who is 56. “Almost all of us have known each other a super long time, and so all the writers are really good about sharing their own things. Then sometimes our spouses are like, ‘Is that me?’ And then we\u2019ll usually just be like, ‘No, no.’ We\u2019ll just lie and say, ‘That\u2019s so and so.'”<\/p>\n There’s one specific joke in the show about Tina\u2019s character, Kate, being “a middle-aged woman with dry skin,” which turns out to be an age-related bodily change that Tina is familiar with IRL.<\/p>\n “I feel like it\u2019s a reverse puberty in a way,” Tina told Today, talking about life in her 50s. “It\u2019s like your body starts to change and be disgusting in new ways.”<\/p>\n She continued: “When you\u2019re 12 or 13, you\u2019re like, ‘Why am I so oily?’ And now you\u2019re like, ‘Why am I so papery?'”<\/p>\n