{"id":559301,"date":"2026-04-02T01:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:32:10","slug":"brandi-carlile-opens-up-about-why-she-loves-getting-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559301\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandi Carlile Opens Up About Why She Loves Getting Older"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brandi Carlile at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Credit: Jamie McCarthy\/WireImage<\/p>\n

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Brandi Carlile shared her views on aging<\/p>\n

During an interview with Amy Poehler, the singer said she loves “everything” about getting older, including her appearance<\/p>\n

Though despite these views, Carlile says she still tells her kids that they shouldn’t rush through their childhood and be in a hurry to grow up<\/p>\n

Brandi Carlile<\/a> is opening up about aging.<\/p>\n

During a March 31 appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast,<\/a> Carlile, 44, revealed she doesn’t mind aging because she loves being older.<\/p>\n

“Every year, I get older, I love being older than I love being younger,” she said with a smile. “I just love it. I like everything. I like the way that my reverence has grown and my sense of humor has changed.”<\/p>\n

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Brandi Carlile at the 2026 TIME Women of the Year Gala.
Credit: Stefanie Keenan\/Getty<\/p>\n

“I choose myself in more situations. I like the way my face looks,” she added. “I like it.”<\/p>\n

Carlile, who released her eighth studio album, Returning to Myself, in 2025, said she can’t wait to enter her 50s because she believes it’ll be her “favorite decade.”<\/p>\n

Despite her views on aging, Carlile, who is a mom of two kids, Evangeline, 11, and Elijah, 8<\/a>, whom she shares with her wife, Catherine Carlile<\/a>, said she always tells her little ones that they should enjoy every stage of their life.<\/p>\n

“I love young people, and I’m always like, ‘Oh, enjoy that space. Be there.’ And I have kids too, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, be a kid! Be a kid! But if I’m really honest, that wasn’t my favorite part of my life.”<\/p>\n

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“Even if I walked in front of a bus tomorrow and my life flashed before my eyes, I think I’d probably see the last five years,” she added.<\/p>\n

In an October 2025 interview with NPR<\/a>, Carlile also shared what she learned about aging and said life taught her that “love isn’t a feeling.”<\/p>\n

“I think age teaches you that love is an action. It’s a \u2014 I don’t want to say \u2014 I don’t want to sound too dutiful or too eldest child, but that it’s something that you do,” she said. “It’s a commitment to a certain kind of fidelity and honoring of someone else, even if that someone doesn’t love you.”<\/p>\n

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