“I had heard that at 40 everything changed.

I may be exaggerating a bit, but it happened overnight.

I went from being a girl to the mother to beyond the mother.”

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I couldn’t wait to be that.

I strive for that.

It’s not easy being in this business.

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There’s a lot of external pressure."

“It’s become normalized,” she said about cosmetic surgery.

“Time out, time out!

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This is not a fact.

This is an idea that we can either pull in and make a belief or not.

I’m like, f–k that.”

Instead, she chooses to look inward and heal her own insecurities rather than responding to hate.

“It does nothing to make me happier or free.

It does everything to tamp all that down.

It does everything to mute my life.

I’m going to do the opposite, then I’ll have the opposite result,” Bateman said.