Alyssa Milano is embracing the pure look on her 53rd birthday.
“My annual birthday selfie. No filter. No make-up,” Milano captioned an Instagram selfie on Friday, December 19, noting she solely has “micro-bladed eyebrows and no matter is left from [her] final spherical of Botox and filler.”
The actress concluded, “That is 53.”
Milano snapped a photograph of herself mendacity in mattress, carrying a floral pajama prime, as she smiled for the digital camera sans magnificence merchandise on her face.
Milano’s filter-free picture additionally impressed her to write down a poem about growing old..
“Right this moment is my birthday. I’m 53,” she started her poem. “That is across the age the place docs and influencers and advert firms all begin utilizing the identical phrase about you, gently, virtually in a whisper, like they’re apologizing prematurely.
She continued, ‘Elasticity.’ It’s a phrase from physics, from materials, from rubber bands and waistlines and issues designed to stretch after which, ideally, return. Pores and skin loses elasticity, however what they’re actually speaking about isn’t vainness. It’s mechanics. It’s the physique’s lengthy relationship with power. The power to stretch below strain and return to itself.”
In one other stanza of Milano’s poem, she mused in regards to the results of growing old.
“If you’re younger, that is simply assumed. You fall in love, crumble and bounce again,” she wrote. “Nobody tells you ways a lot effort that takes as a result of it doesn’t but take effort. Sooner or later, although, this high quality turns into noticeable as a result of it turns into finite. Your pores and skin hesitates, so does your coronary heart. You’re taking longer to return again. From boozy nights, from grief, from disappointment, from individuals.”
The Charmed alum added, “You stretch. You keep stretched. And right here’s the half nobody says out loud: ‘That’s not failure. It’s proof.’ Each place that doesn’t snap again is a spot that held weight. Held kids. Held loss. Held concern. Held pleasure lengthy sufficient to wrinkle it in and make it everlasting. I’ve much less give with my time now. Much less persistence for being pulled in instructions that drain me, however I’ve extra capability for fact, for tenderness, for holding discomfort and for staying.”
Milano additional burdened that she didn’t need to look again anymore — solely ahead.
“Right this moment, I’m 53. What didn’t return was by no means misplaced to me,” she concluded. “It merely discovered a deeper gravity.”
Milano, who shares two kids with husband David Bugliari, has beforehand been candid about getting beauty enhancements. Along with Botox injections, Milano as soon as had a breast augmentation. She in the end had her implants eliminated in September.
“Right this moment I’m releasing these false narratives, the elements of me that have been by no means really elements of me,” she wrote through Instagram on the time. “I’m letting go of the physique that was sexualized [and] that I believed was essential for me to be engaging; to be liked; to achieve success; to be pleased. And in doing so, I hope I’m releasing my daughter Bella from ever feeling those self same unhealthy calls for.”
Milano added, “Right this moment I’m liked, I’m female, I’m engaging, and I’m profitable. None of that’s due to my implants. I’ll nonetheless be all of these issues once I get up and they’re gone. There may be a lot and pleasure in that information and freedom in letting go of what was by no means me within the first place.”

