Laverne Cox Opens Up About Embracing Her Age

Laverne Cox has recently opened up about her struggle to embrace her age. Since 2002, the actress admits that “Over 21” became her age to anyone that asked.

However, when Cox’s real age was eventually published alongside her film credits, she realized she had to face–and embrace–reality.

“I was having such anxiety, and so I started talking to my therapist about it,” she said. Cox worried that her real age would mean she “wasn’t hirable” or “wasn’t datable.”

“I thought the sky was going to fall,” she revealed about publically sharing her real age for the first time ever, at a speaking engagement in 2019, “But it was like nothing. And it was a reminder that in our heads, we might have shame about something … and no one really cares.”

Now, Cox is “proudly 49, about to turn 50.”

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