Kathie Lee Gifford uncovers secret to thriving in her 70s

Kathie Lee Gifford reflected connected however she is embracing beingness successful her 70s. 

The 71-year-old erstwhile "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" big serves arsenic an ambassador for QVC's Quintessential 50, which is "a corporate of inspiring women implicit 50 who amusement that beingness lone gets amended with age," according to a property merchandise for the buying network. On May 14, Gifford attended QVC's TikTok Super Brand Day, an lawsuit that marked the 2nd twelvemonth of QVC's Age of Possibility platform.

During an interrogation with Fox News Digital astatine the event, Gifford shared her thoughts connected what the Age of Possibility meant to her.

"Maybe thing antithetic than it is to a batch of women who deliberation ‘Are determination immoderate possibilities near for me?'" Gifford said. 

Kathie Lee Gifford shared her concealed to thriving successful her 70s. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

"And they person a consciousness of despair — immoderate of them — a small consciousness of well, ‘What americium I present for anymore?’" she continued. "But I've ever had intent successful my life. I've been coagulated and conscionable steadfast. I've tried to beryllium a believer successful Almighty God, and if I aftermath up each morning, that means — I've got a pulse. That means helium has got a intent for maine and that's what I effort to bash is perceive to his voice. Figure retired what that intent is, and spell astir it holding his hand.

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"And not getting up of Him due to the fact that I can't bash it without Him," Gifford added. "I can't respire without Him, and ne'er had a time successful my beingness erstwhile I thought I could. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful that I came to that benignant of religion aboriginal connected successful life. I don't cognize what I would person turned retired to beryllium successful Hollywood if I hadn't been rooted successful my faith. Right, wrong, immoral, moral. I mean, it saved maine from a batch of despair."

"The God of the Way" writer explained however she had approached each caller decennary of her beingness with intent and gratitude. 

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"When I turned 50, I inactive had small kids," the parent of Cody, 35, and Cassidy, 31, said. 

"And I was busy. I was inactive moving with Regis. And past adjacent astatine 60, I was moving with Regis," Gifford continued. "And past I turned 71 this past year. "

"If you unrecorded successful the past, you're gonna dice there."

"I cognize it's hard to believe," she quipped. "There are things successful my assemblage I'm not blessed about. But I've got a marque caller publication coming out. I've got 3 movies I'm penning and producing with my son. What other americium I doing? I've got 2 caller grandchildren coming. I volition person 5 nether the property of 3 successful 3 years." 

"I mean, if you unrecorded successful the past, you're gonna dice there. If you conscionable ore connected what you've mislaid successful your life, you're going to miss retired connected what you inactive have. And God wants you to beryllium grateful. Not capable grateful radical successful this world, you know? There conscionable aren't." 

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Gifford launched her vocation arsenic an actress, making her tv debut with a impermanent quality successful an occurrence of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." She gained wider designation erstwhile she starred successful the philharmonic sitcom "Hee Haw Honeys" from 1978 to 1979. The bid was a spin-off of the long-running assortment amusement "Hee Haw." 

She became a household sanction erstwhile she began hosting "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" alongside the precocious Regis Philbin, Gifford hosted the deed greeting amusement from 1985 to 2000 and received 10 associated Daytime Emmy Award nominations for outstanding speech amusement big with Philbin. 

Gifford went connected to big the greeting amusement "Today" with Hoda Kotb for 11 years, from 2008 to 2019. The duo earned 2 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for outstanding informative speech amusement host, winning successful 2019. 

Gifford and Regis Philbin co-hosted "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" from 1985 to 2000. (Peter Kramer/NBC)

She is besides an accomplished playwright, producer, singer-songwriter, writer and actress. Gifford has starred successful galore TV shows and movies during her career. She has written 5 musicals, including Broadway's "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson," which starred Carolee Carmello. In 2013, Carmello received a Tony Award information for her show successful the show. 

Gifford has besides starred connected Broadway, playing the relation of Carol Burnett in Stephen Sondheim's "Putting It Together" and portraying Miss Hannigan successful "Annie." As an author, Gifford has penned a fig of books, including 5 New York Times bestsellers arsenic good arsenic children's books

While speaking with Fox News Digital, Gifford shared however she believes that her affirmative cognition and hard enactment has been the cardinal to her success.

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"There are a batch of radical who consciousness entitled. I was ne'er entitled to anything," she said. "But erstwhile I got a job, I was grateful. And I was ne'er the prettiest miss that got the job, I was ne'er the champion singer, I was ne'er the champion dancer, I was ne'er the champion anything, but I was the champion worker. And I had the champion attitude. I was a producer's dream."

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In summation to Gifford, QVC's TikTok Super Brand Day was besides attended by different returning Q50 ambassadors, including erstwhile tennis prima Billie Jean King, TV property Stacy London and entrepreneur Barbara "Babs" Costello, arsenic good arsenic caller ambassadors "Today" co-host Hoda Kotb, philanthropist Kathy Hilton and "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum Jennie Garth. While attending the event, Gifford and Kotb reunited connected the reddish carpet.

During her interrogation with Fox News Digital, Gifford recalled however she came to enactment with QVC.

Gifford and her erstwhile "Today" co-host reunited connected the reddish carpet astatine QVC's TikTok Super Brand Day.  (Jordan Strass/AP)

"They called maine years agone erstwhile I was connected with Regis and asked maine to bash a merchandise enactment for them," she said. "So, I came retired with immoderate benignant of a quality product, I deliberation it was a tegument pick and a really, truly bully one. And they said, ‘Now you know, you mightiness person to enactment determination and travel backmost each 20 minutes oregon each mates hours and bash it successful the mediate of the night, and I said, ’OK, let's spot however it goes.'"

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"We sold out," Gifford recalled. "We sold $5 cardinal worthy of it successful 5 minutes. I went, ‘Oh.’"

"Now, that didn't hap each clip I went to bash QVC, but it was a bully large measurement first," she added with a smile.

Since then, Gifford said she has worked with QVC on and disconnected implicit the years.

"They're an astonishing organization," she said. "Technically, they're superb and nice, nice, bully people. And you cognize me, I don't bent retired with mean ones. I bash not bash it."

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