Many fans believe that the icon who resembles the pinnacle of elegance and glamour is unequivocally Jane Seymour, and we couldn’t agree more. Along with being a beloved actress, she’s been the long-time brand ambassador for The Body Firm, the wellness and skincare brand known for the body treatment system, Crépe Erase. And now, they’re releasing something else revolutionary: the Youthful Essence in early February.
Not only did Seymour sit down with SheKnows to discuss how the Youthful Essence changed her life for the better, but she also talked about how she accepts all of life’s changes with grace — and the lessons she’s teaching her children and grandchildren.
When you sit down with Seymour, you can just tell she’s full of wisdom, ready to impart her years of learned lessons to you. When she speaks about The Body Firm, you can tell how passionate she is about it all, about feeling good from the inside out; and how she makes every step she can to ensure she stays around for the long haul for her family.
“From an early age, I’ve always been interested in skin and skincare,” she told us. “I have always felt that beauty comes from within and I have always felt that beauty is also healthy. People that just radiate being healthy, authentic, interesting, and approachable: to me, [that] is beauty. Beauty is the whole package, and I think I also got it really from my mother.”
Both her mother and her father influenced her greatly, and while her father may not have agreed with vitamins at first, she believes he would’ve loved the ones she’s been working on with The Body Firm. She said, “My father was a doctor, he wasn’t sure at first about vitamins ’cause he was all about science, but then he came fully on board when they got the results of what Vitamin C, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatories [could do]. And I think if he was here today, he would be very excited about what we are able to do.”
She even said she felt like the “Energizer Bunny” after using the Youth Essence line, which includes the Antioxidant Wellness Beauty Blend, Radiance Renewing Collagen Peptides, Mind & Mood Adaptogen Blend, and the Gut Balancing Probiotic Support. But as we know, she’s been a fan of the products for years.
“I realized it actually did work because people kept stopping me and saying, ‘Wait a minute, have you done a laser treatment? You always said you haven’t done anything. Have you done this? Have you done that?’ Well, I haven’t, and they couldn’t believe it,” she said. “It is a huge success. I know people who literally come up to me in restaurants and they say, ‘Thank you, thank you!’
Seymour has worn many hats: Emmy award-winning actress, mother, grandmother, and advocate, just to name a few. Life changes so much, and as Seymour puts it, it’s not the end of the world: “When life changes, move the dial.”
Life may change, Seymour reflected, but that’s okay — especially the older you get. “You have to give yourself permission,” she said. “Before this, you were a caretaker or you were in a relationship, marriage, raising your kids, and making sure that they got everything that you didn’t get and more. Then all of that seems to kind of change. It doesn’t all disappear, it just takes on a different form.”
But even though her children: daughter Katherine, 41, son Sean, 38, and twin boys John Stacy Keach and Kristopher Steven Keach, 27, are out of the house, living lives of their own with their own kids, Seymour embraces these change gracefully. Seymour is also a proud grandma, gushing over Katherine’s kids Rowan, Willa, and Luna.
“I love the intergenerational life,” she smiled. “People say grandchildren are the best. And I went, ‘Gosh, boring people having to show you their grandchildren. Never do that.’ And now I am that boring person. I am like the worst culprit.”
The Harry Wild star reflected on a conversation she had with one of her children when they were only 13 years old. “They said, ‘Mom, what’s the most important thing in life?’ I just said, be authentic. Just be who you are. Because if you are authentic to yourself and you are living in the present moment and you are doing your own best, not trying to be someone else or better than someone else, you can grow with your authentic self and be the best you that you can be.”
She also noted how her “mother’s wisdom of living with an open heart of understanding that everyone will have challenges” greatly influenced her motherhood and grandmotherhood journey. In fact, she’s raised a family that truly cares about others.
“My mother said, ‘Darling, everyone has challenges and when they do, they close off their heart and don’t tell anyone what’s going on.’ But if you can accept, open your heart, reach out to help someone else, it will help you,” she beamed, smliing as she reflected on her mother’s advice, which her family has truly taken to heart.
Her grandchildren “have been volunteering and helping with feeding and supplying homeless women on the Broadwalk in Santa Monica since they were about three years old.” When Seymour asked her daughter why they did this, she told her, “I don’t want ’em to be afraid of people who are unhoused.”
“So my grandkids are very philanthropic. They even have an organization with a whole bunch of other kids now called the Beehives. And it is fantastic. They meet and decide on what organization or charity [to work with] and discuss it. They find the organization that’s working on it, they go and work with them, see what they’re actually doing,” she enthused. “I think it’s never too soon to pass down that gauntlet, the gauntlet of what can I do to help others.”
She also remarked how much she loves “seeing the world through their eyes, seeing them discover things, seeing them trying on my clothes, putting their makeup on in my mirror with my makeup.”
“I try to be in the present tense. I try to be out with what’s happening right now,” she said. “If you have grandchildren, you wanna be able to play with them. You want to be able to play tennis with them, hike with them, swim with them. If you’ve got a bad back, and you can’t pick ’em up and carry them, well then you’ve gotta figure out how you can be healthy enough so you can be part of their lives.”
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