{"id":120833,"date":"2024-08-25T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/gillian-anderson-feels-sex-adapts-and-changes-as-she-ages\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:46:32","slug":"gillian-anderson-feels-sex-adapts-and-changes-as-she-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/gillian-anderson-feels-sex-adapts-and-changes-as-she-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Anderson feels sex &apos;adapts and changes&apos; as she ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-08-25\" datetime=\"1724607992\" pubdate=\"\">25 August 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/gillian-anderson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,gillian-anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gillian Anderson<\/a> feels sex \u201cadapts and changes\u201d as she ages.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Gillian Anderson feels sex \u2018adapts and changes\u2019 as she ages<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The X-Files\u2019 actress, 56, has just released her book \u2018Want\u2019, which is a compilation of thousands of sexual fantasies she asked women to submit to her anonymously online.<\/p>\n<p>She told The Guardian about how she has loved sex at all stages of her life: \u201cFor me, sex has never felt like a static entity, but rather something that adapts and changes as I grow and change, with every new phase and stage of my life. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA huge part of this has always been in the thinking and the feeling, not just the doing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an actor, there is an inherent permission at the core of my job to give myself over to an alternate reality, which is the very definition of fantasy. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe women whom I embody, whose worlds I step into, also have inner lives, desires and fantasies, which are vital to understanding what makes them tick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nGillian, who stars in Netflix\u2019s \u2018Sex Education\u2019 series, added her past sex symbol status now baffles her.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told The Guardian she considers being voted sexiest woman by FHM magazine in 1996 \u201cpreposterous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter Gillian was catapulted into fame in 1993 playing FBI agent Dana Scully in \u2018The X-Files\u2019 she became a fixation of lads\u2019 magazines.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said about being made an object of lust: \u201cIt felt so preposterous to me. If you saw my life and where I am half the time, between work and set and kids and driving and drop-offs and pick-ups and all that sort of stuff \u2013 the fact that you\u2019d end up with those pictures is just so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMother-of-three Gillian gave birth to her first child Piper during the second season of \u2018The X-Files\u2019 and spent the rest of the series as a working mum.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added about doing sexy photoshoots at the time: \u201c(Those were) just part of the fantasy. It doesn\u2019t feel like it represents me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/gillian-anderson-feels-sex-adapts-changes-ages-1405147.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 August 2024 Gillian Anderson feels sex \u201cadapts and changes\u201d as she ages. Gillian Anderson feels sex \u2018adapts and changes\u2019 as she ages \u2018The X-Files\u2019 actress, 56, has just released her book \u2018Want\u2019, which is a compilation of thousands of sexual fantasies she asked women to submit to her anonymously online. 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