Actor Jane Fonda, who celebrated her 80th birthday last week, said that growing up she never expected to reach 30.
“I never pictured 30,” Fonda told People magazine in an interview.
“I assumed I wouldn’t live very long, and that I would die lonely and an addict of some sort. I didn’t think that, even if I did live this long, I would be this vibrant, healthy and still working. I’m grateful,” she added.
Fonda’s mother committed suicide when she was 42 years of age and the same year, her actor father, Henry Fonda remarried. She has spoken in the past about suffering from bulimia, taking hallucinogenic drugs and being abused as a child.
Fonda won her first Oscar in 1972, at age 35, for the movie Klute and went on to win her second for the 1978 Vietnam War drama Coming Home.
She became an anti-war and women’s activist, launched a fitness craze with her 1980’s workout videos, married three times,and is nominated at January’s Screen Actors Guild awards for her lead role in TV series Grace and Frankie.
The actor turned 80 on December 21. “I’m thankful that I’ve gotten better over the 80 years. I’m less judgmental; more forgiving. I’ve really worked hard to get better as a human being,” she concluded.
