Danica McKellar it’s about aging gracefully.
“That’s 51! 🌟McKellar wrote via Instagram on Saturday, January 3, on his 51st birthday. “No makeup, no filters, just front lighting and a healthy lifestyle to look, and more importantly, *feel* my best. 🙌.”
In her fresh-faced selfie, the actress he smiled at the camera and showed off her natural brown freckles, wrinkles and waves.
“Today, I spent time with the family (baffling!), worked out, took a cold dip in the ocean, and we’re about to have dinner,” her Instagram caption concluded. “I feel blessed beyond words today!!”
Even though The Wonder Years’ Winnie Cooper was everyone’s favorite neighbor, actress Danica McKellar definitely felt growing pains once the show ended. “When I was a teenager, right after the show, I was super ready for everyone to let go of that character and move on. I wanted to move on with my life,” McKellar, 48, exclusively (…)
McKellar also shared some of her birthday highlights via her Instagram Stories.
“Time for my annual cold ocean dip for my birthday,” she captioned pictures of herself rocking a striped bikini in La Jolla, California. “Wish me luck. Here we are!”
After diving underwater, McKellar resurfaced and proclaimed, “Happy birthday to me.”
McKellar has previously been outspoken about wellness and aging.
“If there’s one secret I’ve found in young people, it’s in attitude…and a healthy, clean lifestyle, of course,” he wrote via Facebook his birthday in 2023. “Our minds and bodies are inextricably connected.”
He then continued, “I’ve found that when I eat well and get enough rest and exercise, I have much more access to that inner joy that makes life fun! And when I discipline myself to see the good (and laugh at the absurdities) of the world, resisting the seduction of outrage addiction, I seem more likely to stay grateful and make healthy choices… to be outraged.”
According to McKellar, he had another “secret of life” to share with his fans.
“The other secret of life? To take all that gratitude and give back to the world in as many ways as I can,” McKellar said. “My grandmother always said, ‘The way to be happy is to make other people happy.'”
McKellar rose to fame playing Winnie Cooper The wonderful years from 1988 to 1993.
“When I was a teenager, right after the show, I was so ready for everyone to let go of that character and move on. I wanted to move on in my life,” McKellar, who was cast at age 13. explained exclusively Us Weekly in 2023. “As I’ve gotten older, I understand all the gifts that this character has given me and everyone else. I mean, the fact that people watched that show as a family and the darling Winnie Cooper is, it really warms my heart.”
McKellar further explained what he had learned from his time The wonderful years set
“Oh my God, (I’d tell myself) just ‘keep the faith,'” she joked. we at that time. “‘Keep the faith because it’s going to be an up and down roller coaster.’ And, ‘Everything works out, just like everything in life, everything works out.’