Even though Sofía Vergara is constantly praised for her "youthful" appearance, this year she turns 52 years old, which Hollywood considers not youthful. So how does she feel about the aging process? Well, in a recent interview, she made it clear that she is aware and accepts that a body changes as it gets older. And as an entrepreneur with clothing lines and skin care lines, she uses this knowledge to inform the products she creates. For example, the new swimwear and summer collection line she released with Walmart is all about acknowledging that women of different ages want different things.
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In designing her current collection, she was deliberate about creating items that are meant to fit a woman’s changing body. She made a point of providing "options that do what you want them to do." Check out what she had to say about the difficulty of swimsuits at every age, the perks of aging, and how she feels about cosmetic procedures.
Swimsuits are hard 'no matter what,' she says.
"Swimsuits are always difficult for women—no matter what age, what size, what race," Sofía told E! News while discussing her new designs. "We all have our insecurities. But once you get older, it's even more because we don't look the same."
Options are always a good thing.
"You have to find options that do what you want them to do," the Modern Family star stated. "You can't wear the same things you wore in your 20s or 30s. In your 40s and 50s, things start changing, so it's good that there are things, like our Walmart [collection], that hold you and shape you, and enhances what you have."
She’s aware that aging comes with certain perks.
"When you reach a certain age, you know life more," she opined. "That's one of the fun things about getting older: You realize what's important in life and what is not." She’s not wrong, I can vouch for that.
What’s it like to age on camera?
"I'm in a business where we're always being looked at and now the cameras are high definition," Sofía shared. "It's different to age as a normal woman in a normal job, but to age in front of a camera is completely different. And all of our insecurities become even bigger once you get older."
She accepts that there are changes that come with aging, but she’s not opposed to trying certain procedures.
"I want to feel good and not because what people are thinking of me," she explained. "It's for me. I want to feel fresh—not exhausted. You have to accept that you're going to be different, but also I'm never afraid to do the best that I can. So, if there's things I can do without going crazy, why not?"
If given a choice, would she choose wisdom over youth?
"Listen," she joked with E! News. "If they had asked, 'Do you want to stay an idiot, but young? I'm like, 'Yes.' I don't want the [expletive] wisdom." I’m not sure I love her answer, but at least she’s honest.
Even though she accepts aging, she’s not necessarily all about aging naturally, so to speak.
"I feel like I'm going to do every plastic surgery that I can do when I'm ready," she told Allure during a May 2024 interview. "I wish I had more downtime; I would've done stuff already. [But] because I'm in front of the camera, it's not like I can do something and then sit in my house recuperating for weeks."
Botox has been her buddy for some time.
"I've been doing Botox for a long time in my neck, [around] my eyes," she told Allure. "I don’t believe in filler. I feel filler does good when you're really young and you want a little bit more cheeks or to plump your lips a little bit."
She’s anti-fillers for older women, though.
"At my age—51—I feel it's not going to make you look younger. It is going to make you look more done," she explained to Allure. "And I feel like it actually doesn't pull you up; it kind of weighs [you down]. So I am against that, once you hit a certain age."
My take on Sofía’s take on aging.
I wish we lived in a world that could see beauty in wrinkles; in a world that understood that beauty has no expiration date; in a world that never used words like "anti-aging" meant to demonize the signs of time as expressed on our bodies.
But we don’t live in that world, and we are far from it. We live in a world that acts as if aging is a disease that must be cured. And so, although I may not feel the same way as Sofía does in terms of how I want to embrace the aging process, I understand where she is coming from and I defend our right choose what works for each of us.
And I will always appreciate transparency.
I praise Sofía for sharing that she avails herself of Botox because knowing that that might help someone who doesn’t use Botox not compare themselves to her. How someone who uses Botox ages cannot be compared to how someone who doesn't use Botox ages.
We all age differently and it’s OK.
We can all choose how we want to approach our aging process as well. What I hope that discussions like this from women on the other side of 50 do is normalize getting older as something to be embraced and not fought against.
Just for fun, here she is in the 1980s.
Adorable to say the least. It's crazy to think of how long she has been on camera and in the public eye. Her success is commendable and so is her career trajectory. She's been formidable at every age.
And here she is in the 1990s.
She posted this video and captioned it: "I have always been a great cook, see? #tbt #colombiainthe90s." In case you don't know, it's funny because she doesn't really cook in real life.
