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Kim Alexis is turning 65 successful July – and she’s determined to "age gracefully."
The ‘80s supermodel, who appeared connected implicit 500 mag covers and posed for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit six times, has been vocal connected Instagram astir embracing the earthy signs of aging. The 64-year-old has written respective books astir cleanable eating implicit the years.
"I person not had immoderate enactment done connected my face," the erstwhile screen miss told Fox News Digital. "I americium a large believer successful staying arsenic earthy arsenic possible. I judge and bask my wrinkles. I americium not present to beryllium anything. I americium going to beryllium 65 successful a period … and I earned them."
Kim Alexis is turning 65 successful July. (Phyllis Lane)
"I bash effort to look arsenic bully arsenic possible," she shared. "I deliberation we each do, though determination are immoderate days erstwhile I don’t. I conscionable deterioration my hairsbreadth successful a ponytail, and I don’t enactment constitution on. I’m inactive a quality being, and I’m inactive me. I person to larn to emotion and judge myself the mode I am."
"I don’t disparage different women from doing things," she continued. "Women get very, precise protective, I think, of what they take to do. And erstwhile I accidental I don’t privation to person immoderate procedures, sometimes it makes them precise defensive, and I’m not present to bash that. I’m present to acceptable an illustration of here’s however you tin look astatine 65. If you privation to articulation me, fine. If not, bash your ain thing."
"Age is conscionable a number," Kim Alexis told Fox News Digital. (Phyllis Lane)
Alexis praised different models from her era, similar Christie Brinkley and Paulina Porizkova, who person been candid astir their journeys with aging connected societal media.
From left: Kim Alexis and Nicollette Sheridan connected the screen of TV Guide, circa 1988. (TV Guide/courtesy Everett Collection)
"We’re each conscionable trying to beryllium our best," said Alexis. "I privation to enactment progressive and conscionable effort to beryllium my best. It gives maine a extremity to marque bully choices towards health, not distant from health."
Alexis said having a youthful tone keeps her moving. Age is conscionable a number, she stressed.
Kim Alexis poses for the 1982 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit contented connected December 4, 1981, connected Manda Island, Kenya. (John G. Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated via Contour RA by Getty Images)
"Figuring retired erstwhile it was that I started reasoning astir aging gracefully, I deliberation it was a gradual process," she explained.
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"And there’s a portion of maine that inactive doesn’t deliberation I’m old… Part of it, I think, is my mindset, meaning that I inactive deliberation I’m young, but I spot that determination are carnal things that are changing. A portion of maine conscionable wants to judge them."
"I’m a precise earthy person, truthful I don’t similar messing astir with nature… I similar to usage what God enactment connected this satellite to effort and assistance heal maine oregon support maine astatine a cleanable level," she shared. "I’m trying to enactment bully things successful my assemblage versus clogging it with things that whitethorn origin wrinkles oregon whitethorn origin maine to beryllium exhausted oregon whitethorn origin maine to person a atrocious attitude."
Kim Alexis said she hasn't had immoderate enactment done to crook backmost time. (Phyllis Lane)
"If you look astatine my tegument [from erstwhile I was] 18, wherefore bash I request a facial?" Alexis reflected. "I privation to bash my attraction successful a steadfast way, not with… things injected in. Part of my mantra is conscionable trying to find clean, steadfast things and beryllium natural."
Kim Alexis arsenic a young exemplary successful New York City. (Tony Palmieri/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Alexis said that these days, she keeps her quality regular ace simple, focusing connected tons of hydration, moisturizing, arsenic good arsenic exfoliating her tegument erstwhile a week to support it supple. The prima besides prefers to support her silvery strands golden. She prioritizes staying progressive regular to some look and consciousness her best.
"I’ve ever been [active] since I was young," she said. "Fitness is thing I person to do. [At property 20] I discovered running, and to beryllium that I was an athlete, I ran 8 marathons. . . . I deliberation erstwhile I turned astir 62, 63, my genu started acting up and a doc benched me. And so, I had to look astir and say, ‘OK Kim, you don’t privation to spell backmost successful the pool, due to the fact that that’s conscionable staring astatine a achromatic enactment each the time.’
Kim Alexis getting acceptable for the New York Marathon. (Steve Fenn /Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
"And I bash spell erstwhile successful a while, but going successful a excavation benignant of messes up my play game, and I bash a batch of play foundation events. . . . It messes with my shoulders. . . . So, I’ve learned to spell biking oregon rowing oregon the elliptical oregon taking a class."
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Kim Alexis is seen present doing yoga astatine home. (Phyllis Lane)
"I bash escaped weights," she shared. "I emotion my small dumbbells. I spell successful with each the guys implicit astatine the guys' conception of the gym. I bash my dumbbell regular of keeping my precocious assemblage strong. My hubby and I bash limb workouts unneurotic possibly erstwhile each week oregon 2 weeks. Even conscionable getting retired each time and walking my dog, I emotion being outside."
Alexis made her SI Swimsuit debut successful 1982. During the decadent decade, she traveled to Kenya, Jamaica, Australia and different beachy destinations with the brand.
Kim Alexis was already a sought-after exemplary successful New York City erstwhile Sports Illustrated Swimsuit came calling. (Yvonne Hemsey/Liaison/Getty Images)
"Being successful Sports Illustrated for the swimsuits was truly great," Alexis recalled. "Number one, I grew up swimming, truthful I was comfy successful a swimsuit. And erstwhile I got interviewed, I sat determination successful jeans and a t-shirt successful a New York City office and got the occupation without having to exposure my body. . . . Being outdoors and being diversion and being successful a swimsuit was close up my alley."
Kim Alexis and Beverly Johnson contiguous onstage during the 6th yearly "TV Land Awards" held astatine Barker Hangar connected June 8, 2008, successful Santa Monica, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TV Land)
Still, the prima admitted she wasn’t prepared for the newfound attraction she received.
"When I started to get feedback from men, I deliberation that’s erstwhile I realized, ah, I’m hitting a antithetic population," she said. "It’s not conscionable the women who are looking astatine the manner magazines. It’s present the men who are noticing. And Jule Campbell, who was the exertion astatine Sports Illustrated, was benignant capable to enactment our names successful the mag truthful radical could cognize the sanction and cognize the look oregon body."
Over the years, Kim Alexis has written respective books connected wellness. (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage/Getty Images)
Alexis went connected to pivot her vocation to Hollywood. She notably appeared successful the past occurrence of "Cheers," titled "One for the Road," successful 1993. It was that infinitesimal erstwhile Alexis knew she had made it.
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Kim Alexis arsenic herself successful the "Cheers" occurrence titled "One for the Road," circa 1993. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
"Being connected the past occurrence of ‘Cheers’ was, successful a way, mind-blowing," she said. "I would beryllium successful the backmost country and perceive to the portion of the publication that I wasn’t in. But they kept saying, ‘Supermodel Kim Alexis!’ I’m like, ‘You got to beryllium kidding me.’ They support saying my name. It was similar escaped promotion. That was a blast."
And she didn’t permission empty-handed.
Model Kim Alexis attends the Roundabout Theatre Company's Annual Gourmet Gala connected May 11, 1987, astatine Roundabout Theatre successful New York City. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
"I had everyone motion the publication screen of my script, and I inactive person that," she boasted. "It’s precise peculiar to me."
Kim Alexis attends the "About Face: Supermodels Then And Now" New York Premiere astatine the Paley Center For Media connected July 17, 2012, successful New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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Today, Alexis happily calls Arizona home, wherever she’s raised a family. She’s been enjoying connecting with fans connected societal media and giving women proposal connected aging.
"For radical who don’t privation to look their age, I deliberation it’s a mindset," she said. "If you are joyful astir beingness and grateful and benignant and giving to different people, I deliberation you person a spark and an attraction that different radical privation to see."
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