"It hasn't been easy," Stone confessed to Shape recently. "There was a point in my 40s where I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way I look right now.'"
She continued, explaining how traumatic she found the entire process before she chose to accept—instead of resent—her age.
"I examined my face in the magnifying mirror, and I looked at my body, and I cried and cried and cried," Stone shared. "Then I said to myself, 'You're going to get old now. How do you want to do that?'"
Stone subsequently made a conscious choice to take control of her age.
"I thought, 'I'd like to age like a dancer,'" she said. "I want to keep my body in shape like that. I want to do the work. I like to dance and stretch. And I'm going to the gym," adding, "Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion."
Well, it shows!
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