27 January 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nMelissa Gilbert swapped her life in Los Angeles for a quiet country retreat because she worried the city was “not safe place to age”.<\/p>\n
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Melissa Gilbert didn’t want to get old in Los Angeles<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old ‘Little House on the Prairie’ star – who found fame in the NBC Western series as a child – left her hometown in California for Michigan in 2013 and has since moved to New York and she admits the move has allowed her to grow old gracefully.<\/p>\n
Melissa told New York Post column PageSix: “I just didn\u2019t feel like that [Los Angeles] was a safe place for me to age. It\u2019s so anti-aging, which is one of my least favorite expressions in the world. Anti-aging means dead … <\/p>\n
[There’s pressure to] not get any older and stay a size 2 or 4 or whatever [I] was at that time. [After the move] I went from, \u2018Oh God, I better not get older!\u2019 to \u2018Oh God, I\u2019m so glad I\u2019m older!”. I love the age I am right now.”<\/p>\n
However, Melissa still has a lot of affection for Los Angeles and was devastated to see the city burning in the recent wildfires.<\/p>\n
\nShe added: “I did not realize the depth of love that I have for my hometown until the wildfires. The amount of people I know who have lost everything, and not movie stars and television stars.<\/p>\n
\n“It\u2019s devastating and I do love so much about Los Angeles. It just wasn\u2019t the right place for me to live in any longer but it will always be my hometown.”<\/p>\n
\nMelissa previously admitted she stopped colouring her hair and had her breast implants removed after leaving LA.<\/p>\n
\nShe told FoxNews Digital: “I looked at myself in the mirror several years back. I was living in Los Angeles, and I did not recognize who I was. I had overfilled my face and my lips. My forehead didn\u2019t move. <\/p>\n
\n“I was still dyeing my hair red. I was driving a Mustang convertible. I was a size two in an unhealthy way. I looked like a frozen version of my younger self, and that\u2019s not who I was . <\/p>\n
\n“I was stuck. could feel myself fighting it. And I said to myself, \u2018It\u2019s time to age.\u2019 I had to leave Los Angeles to do that \u2013 not Hollywood \u2013 Los Angeles specifically. <\/p>\n
\n“I stop colouring my hair. I had [my] breast implants removed. I decided to just be the best, healthiest version of myself without this pressure to look a certain way, and it paid off in a huge way. <\/p>\n
\n“I finally found my feet as a woman, fully, 100 percent strong in my own knowledge, in my own accomplishments. Everything got easier. And a bonus? I have a lot more free time not staring in a mirror, sitting in a dermatologist’s chair, or sitting in a hair chair.”<\/p>\n
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