‘I’m grateful I can still get up a hill and I’m depressed about my thighs’: Emma Thompson, 62, reflects on ageing as she discusses living with her mother and daughter during lockdown

Emma Thompson has reflected on living with both her mother Phyllida, 89, and daughter Gaia, 22, during the Covid lockdown.

The actress, 62, admitted she is ‘grateful’ for her body but is ‘depressed’ about her thighs as she discussed witnessing the ageing process in her mother. 

In an essay for The Guardian, Emma wrote about the connection between the three of them and how they both affect her own self-image.  

Candid: Emma Thompson has reflected on living with both her mother Phyllida, 89, and daughter Gaia, 22, during the Covid lockdown

Emma wrote: ‘Instead of grieving my mother’s ageing, instead of envying my daughter’s youth, I find I am buoyed up and calmed down by turn.

‘I’m grateful I can still get up a hill and I’m depressed about my thighs.’

Emma said she enjoyed the ‘miraculous luxury’ of living with both her mother and daughter as the ‘umbilical connection’ between them ‘tugged’ at her. 

The actress wrote that living between them is a mixture of joy and grief, adding that her daughter ‘thrums’ with energy and she must have done that herself once.

Family: The actress, 62, admitted she is ‘grateful’ for her body but is ‘depressed’ about her thighs as she discussed witnessing the ageing process in her mother (pictured with her daughter Gaia in 2019)

The essay comes after Emma recently discussed what it’s like to be an actress in her sixties, saying she is against having cosmetic surgery.

The star was promoting her film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande where she plays a woman in her sixties who hires a young male escort.

She said ageing is ‘completely natural’ and said the urge to avoid the appearance of it is ‘collective psychosis’. 

Emma wrote: ‘Instead of grieving my mother’s ageing, instead of envying my daughter’s youth, I find I am buoyed up and calmed down by turn’

Speaking to The Wrap, she said: ‘Why would you do that to yourself, I simply don’t understand. 

‘I do honestly think the cutting of yourself off to put it in another place in order to avoid appearing to do what you’re actually doing, which is ageing, which is completely natural, is a form of collective psychosis. I really do think it’s a very strange thing to do.’

Emma added that this is not a new opinion and she has always felt that way, saying she is a ‘militant feminist’ when it comes to women’s bodies.  

Reflection: Emma said she enjoyed the ‘miraculous luxury’ of living with both her mother and daughter as the ‘umbilical connection’ between them ‘tugged’ at her 

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