Jane Fonda - 81: What the famous actress had to sacrifice to the beauty

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The famous American actress Jane Fonda turns 81 on December 21. At 24, she won the title of "Most Promising New Actress of the Year", at 34 won an Oscar, at 48 won the title of "Most Delightful American Woman", and at 81 remains on the list of the most beautiful people on the planet. Many are amazed at how she manages to maintain a blooming appearance in adulthood, not knowing what the Hollywood legend actually had to sacrifice to beauty, and what it cost her.

Jane Seymour Fonda was born in 1937 in the family of the famous American actor Henry Fonda. It was he who influenced her decision to become an actress, and he also instilled in her from childhood the idea that the most important thing for a woman is how she looks. And only after many years she realized what a fatal mistake it was: "".

When Jane was 11 years old, her parents divorced, and she immediately sided with her father, always and unconditionally supporting him in everything. The girl decided that her father left her mother only because she was not perfect enough. A year later, the mother committed suicide while in a psychiatric clinic. This was the first shock in Jane's life, she then blamed herself all her life for leaving her mother without support. In addition, the relationship of the parents formed her false ideas about the family: "".

The father's vision of female beauty led to devastating consequences in the life of his daughter. Until the age of 35, she suffered from bulimia and was sure that no one would love her if she was not perfectly beautiful. She strove to be the first in everything with the sole purpose of attracting the attention of her father. This became a powerful incentive in her acting career - as soon as she appeared on the stage and on the screens, they started talking about her as one of the most promising young actresses. To raise money for classes at the Lee Strasberg Actors' Studio, she began working in a modeling agency and starring for the covers of fashion magazines.

In 1964, Jane Fonda moved to Paris. Once at a screening, she met the French director Roger Vadim, who became her husband. He has starred an actress in several of his films. In parallel, she continued to act in the United States. In 1968, at the invitation of Sidney Pollack, she played the main role in the film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and received the prestigious Golden Globe Film Award for her. And after 3 years she won an Oscar for her role in the film Klute. In the 1970s. Fonda said: "". Many directors really saw in her only a beautiful woman and imposed on her the role of a seductive sex bomb, not giving the opportunity to fully reveal her acting potential.

All my life obsessed with the idea of personal perfection, in the 1980s. Jane Fonda decided to promote a healthy lifestyle and sports as the only way to achieve impeccable forms. She was even able to turn it into a business. She was later called the "grandmother of aerobics" because Jane Fonda developed a set of exercises for improving the body called "aerobics", made a series of videos of her lessons and opened several sports clubs.

In the late 1980s. these videos were incredibly popular and brought her $ 35 million annually. The actress admitted: "".

In relations with men, the actress repeated the same mistakes as with her father: she always tried to please them in everything, forgetting about her own interests. Later she said: "". For the sake of her first husband, Roger Vadim, she pretended to support his ideas about free love, and that she was much more sexy and liberated than she really was. For her second husband, Tom Hayden, whose marriage lasted 17 years, she became a companion in political struggle, investing her millions in his election campaigns. With her third husband, media mogul Ted Turner, the actress lived for 10 years, but the marriage broke up due to his infidelity.

Only at 62, after the third divorce, Jane Fonda finally felt truly free and happy: "". At the same time, she did not hide the fact that after 60 she had novels.

Since then, she has experienced many more trials: she was twice diagnosed with cancer. In 2010, she underwent breast surgery, and in early 2018, a tumor on her lip was removed. However, in spite of everything, Jane Fonda still steadfastly endures all the blows of fate and tries not to lose the harmony with herself, which she tried to achieve all her life and found only after 60. "" - says the actress.

Jane Fonda never hid the fact that in pursuit of an ideal appearance she resorted to plastic surgery, but at the same time clarifies: "".

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