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Emma Shacklock

Nigella Lawson says 'getting older is so much easier' than being young - 'Now I feel that anything could happen'

Nigella Lawson attends a book signing and lunch at the Melbourne restaurant, Taxi Kitchen, during her tour of Australia, January 24, 2018.

Nigella Lawson believes getting older is "so much easier" than being young as you can throw off the "shackles" of self-consciousness and enjoy the "great unfurling mystery" of life.

Ageing is a universal experience and yet so many of us have slightly different approaches to it and it can sometimes feel like society is piling on the pressure to be or feel a certain way about ourselves as the years go on. Whilst it can all-too often seem that all we hear about ageing is negative, Nigella Lawson has taken things in a different direction and we seriously admire her honest reflections about how she finds it not only joyful, but "easier" than being young. Writing an insightful piece for The Sunday Times’s Style just ahead of her 60th birthday on 6th January 2020, she once revealed how she’s fully embracing ageing.

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