Author Marian Keyes, 56, reveals she loves getting older after being ‘lost and clueless for so long’ (and she ‘doesn’t care’ about looking age-appropriate)
- Marian Keyes, from Dublin, revealed she’s happier now at 56 than when younger
- Told how she felt lost and counted on other people to dictate who she should be
- Added she now feels wiser and doesn’t care about looking age-appropriate
- Got hair extensions on 56th birthday and said won’t cut her hair to look her age
Author Marian Keyes has revealed she ‘loves getting older’ and ‘doesn’t care’ about looking ‘age-appropriate.’
The Irish author, from Dublin, who recently turned 56, told how she used to count on other people to dictate who she should be, but added her years have brought her priceless wisdom.
‘I love getting older,’ she explained in an interview with The Observer Magazine. ‘I was lost and clueless for so long, waiting for other people to tell me who I should be. I am wiser now, and I know life is painful. But it’s survivable.’
Ahead of her new book Grown-ups, which is published on February 6, Keyes also revealed she got hair extensions on her 56th birthday, adding that she thinks they’re ‘fabulous.’
Marian Keyes, 56, from Dublin, revealed she feels good about growing older because it’s made her wiser. Pictured, at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on April 10 2016
The Irish Book Award winner went on to explain how she isn’t going to ‘cut [her] hair into a cauliflower helmet to be age-appropriate.’
She continued: ‘And if people look at me and say, “Jesus, Who does she think she is?” I don’t care.’
She also reflected on her previous fight with depression and what the term means to her, explaining: ‘It feels like extreme disconnection, like I don’t love anyone and nobody loves me.’
‘The fear feels like something catastrophic has happened, even when it hasn’t.’
The writer added that over time, she’s learned to try and reduce the symptoms, and now tells herself she’s ‘been through much worse.’
Keyes, who got hair extensions on her 56th birthday, told how she doesn’t care if people look at her and say, ‘Jesus, Who does she think she is?’. Pictured, at the Cosmopolitan Awards 2018 in Madrid on October 18, 2018
Keyes has been open about suffering from bouts of depression and experiencing suicidal thoughts in the past.
In 2017, she told the Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs programmes that she would think about ending her life at least 40 times a day at the height of her success.
‘It got worse and worse… I had never experienced anything like it,’ she said at the time. ‘I stopped being able to sleep. I stopped being able to eat. I couldn’t have conversations.’
‘Then the kind of suicidal impulses started. It was very hard to physically stop myself from going through with it.’
‘For months and months every day was an enormous effort to not do the acts of wounding myself,’ she added, precising that this awful period of her life lasted for 18 months in total.
In October, while she was still working on her upcoming book, Keyes took to Instagram where she shared a heartfelt word with her fans about not believing in herself.
‘I’ve a couple of ideas knocking around but with both of them I’m frightened that I’m not talented or brave enough to carry them off,’ she penned.
She went on to explain that her post was not a ‘plea for praise’ but an opportunity to discuss facing your perceived ‘limitations’ with her fans.
The author shared a candid post in October outlining her struggle to start writing. She insisted her post was not a ‘plea for praise’ but an opportunity to discuss facing your perceived ‘limitations’ with her fans (pictured)
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