*In a new profile with In Style, 45-year-old Tracee Ellis Ross opened up about not having kids and following the lifestyle path that’s expected of women.
“It’s sort of fascinating to be 45 and single and childless,” the actress said. “Happily single, I should add,” she shared. “Not at home crying about it.”
The “Black-ish” star also noted that the status of her personal life and what she’s doing with her womb are “very big and very personal questions that aren’t anyone’s business but that somehow, like the right to choose, become fodder for public conversation. Some of the ability to reflect on what I really want comes from pushing up against a society that shames me for not having the expected trappings,” she told the outlet.
“I’m very pleased with my existence these days,” she added.
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As noted by People, while she’s happy being alone, Ross believes she’d still experience moments of loneliness even if she had a partner.
“Have I had to learn to make friends with loneliness? Yes,” she admitted. “I think if I were in a relationship, it would be the same.”
The outlet also reports that “for her 40th birthday five years ago, Ross rented out a theater, filled it with her friends and undressed down to her bra and underwear. She then pointed out the bodily features she disliked.”
“I felt like I needed to embrace those parts, and love those parts of me because they were all a part of me and they were beautiful and I have a lot of pride in it,” Ross explained at Chico’s #HowBoldAreYou event at Joe’s Pub in N.Y.C. in March.
Today, Ross said she feels “the sexiest and the most beautiful that I’ve ever felt.”
She also shared that she has finally become the woman she dreamed of being as a child.
“You know as a young girl, I had this woman that I dreamt of being, right?” she said. “And I had her in my head and I would play around with being her in my bedroom and with certain people, but the gift of age is that you actually get to have the boldness and the courage to be that woman, to be that person and I’m experiencing it now and some of the things I’ve discovered in knowing myself is that I actually like myself.”
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