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SheWired Shot of The Day: Jane Fonda’s 73 and Sexy for Bazaar

SheWired Shot of The Day: Jane Fonda’s 73 and Sexy for Bazaar

Jane Fonda is in Harper’s Bazaar looking and feeling fantastic at 73 ½. There is a moment in just about every workday when we come across something sexy, gratuitous and completely pointless that we wish we could post but don't under the auspices of there being nothing lesbian about it and often there being no redeeming value

There is a moment in just about every workday when we come across something sexy, gratuitous and completely pointless that we wish we could post but don't under the auspices of there being nothing lesbian about it and often there being no redeeming value. Well, we at SheWired have made an executive decision to just throw any of our pseudo-feminist caution to the wind and to just post our favorite shot of the day, whether it be sexy, salacious, or just because…

Jane Fonda is in Harper’s Bazaar looking and feeling fantastic at 73. The photos by Paola Kudacki show an uninhibited, vivacious and captivating side of Fonda.

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She also talks candidly about here decades-long battle with bulimia and body image issues:

“I wasn’t very happy from, I would say, puberty to 50? It took me a long time. It was in my 40s, and if you suffer from bulimia, the older you get, the worse it gets. It takes longer to recover from a bout. I had a career, I was winning awards, I was supporting nonprofits, I had a family.” One day she just stopped. “I had to make a choice: I live or I die.” She refocused, trying to “fill that empty space with something.” Then came the workouts. “Gloria Steinem said empowerment begins in the muscles.”

“I was raised in the ’50s,” she explains. “I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly. He was a good man, and I was mad for him, but he sent messages to me that fathers should not send: Unless you look perfect, you’re not going to be loved.”

Read more in Becoming Jane on HarpersBazaar.com now.

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