Beloved Food Network Star’s Refreshingly Honest Approach to Aging Includes Butter

Food Network star Nigella Lawson, 66, is not interested in chasing eternal youth. The beloved cookbook author says she’d rather enjoy butter and embrace getting older than undergo unnecessary cosmetic procedures to try to look decades younger.

Lawson talked with The Mirror about her approach to living life and aging gracefully. “I’m a great believer in butter. I just eat what I want,” Lawson declared.

She explained, “I enjoy life but also I know myself. I’m not punishing myself trying to look like a model. So that’s good — I just waddle and enjoy myself.”

The cookbook author, who joins The Great British Bake Off this fall, insists she won’t pursue a steady line of “tweakment” procedures to counter the natural process of aging. Lawson admits that she believes good skin is more genetic than anything else.

Lawson also shared she is “allergic to the sun,” so she avoids it and believes that has made a big difference in her youthful appearance. The popular Food Network personality shared that she’s had issues with the sun her entire life, but has noticed it’s gotten worse in recent years.

She also believes that “Having a bit of fat on the face helps” reduce the appearance of aging. “I don’t do filler or anything like that. Cosmetic work is a tyranny,” Lawson declared.

As The Mirror noted, Lawson has navigated her fair share of significant losses over the years, losing her mother, sister, and first husband to cancer. Given that, she believes it would be “immoral” for her to complain about aging.

“Life is precious,” Lawson pointed out. She acknowledged that it’s fine to “moan” about things, however, adding, “A sense of proportion is not always easy to hold onto.”

The beloved Food Network star and cookbook author tries to embrace aging naturally while balancing life’s ups and downs, and Lawson looks fabulous while doing it.