Jane Fonda has just turned 75 and in this time she has certainly done a whole lot of living!
She has won Oscars and accolades, been a feminist advocate, fitness icon, married three times, written seven books and fought off breast cancer.
But throughout it all Jane has always had a refreshingly honest take on her life and the issues that matter most to her.
In her new book Jane is freely saying that at 75, she is still having sex. Lots of it and it’s never been better.
“I make a big effort now to be a good lover to my lover,” she said.
“Sex can be intimate or not. Intimacy can be sexy, or not. But you can’t experience intimacy unless you are in a relationship standing on your own two feet. In the past, I tended to fall in love at the drop of a hat.”
“But I wasn’t whole. So there wasn’t a lot of intimacy, even though there might have been a lot of sex. And so I have, at this late stage of my life, become a whole person. And so there is more intimacy, which is, I think, just as important as sex, perhaps more important,” she said.
Her current lover who she refers to is Richard Perry, an American music producer. But there are no marriage plans in the future. Being married three times already Jane says she is not likely to do it again.
“Are you serious?” she asks.
“I will never get married again. What would be the point? The very thought of it makes me feel claustrophobic,” she says.
“Too many times, I have said, ‘This is it.’ But never again.”
Jane has been through many troubled times with a challenging adolescence and we are thrilled to hear that she is now at peace.
“I come from a family of depressed people, a long line of depressed people on both sides,” she says.
“So I really didn’t expect to be 75 and happy. And the thing is, I can honestly say I have never been happier. Part of getting older is knowing what you don’t need in life. You can’t let things go and become lighter. And it’s wonderful to finally feel this way,” she said.
Jane has drawn on her experience for her new book “Prime Time”. In this candid book, Jane uses research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others to explore how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when people become who they were meant to be.
Jane Fonda’s Prime Time is available Amazon: Prime Time: Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit–making the most of all of your life
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