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Arnold Schwarzenegger on aging and body image struggles: ‘It just sucks’

Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting candid about how his self-esteem has taken a toll as he gets older.

During an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, the former bodybuilder opened up about how he has struggled to come to terms with his changing body after being in such great shape in his youth.

“I kind of smile because every day I do look in a mirror and I say, ‘Yep, you suck,’” the seven-time Mr. Olympia winner told host Howard Stern.

“I look at this body … look at those pectoral muscles that used to be firm and perky and really powerful with a striation in there. Now they’re just hanging there. I mean, what the hell is going on here?”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, 76, said he looks at himself every morning in the mirror and says, “‘Yep, you suck.’” Getty Images for SiriusXM

While Schwarzenegger, 76, knows most people deal with the same existential crisis, he argued that they don’t know what it’s like to go from “Superman” to an average man.

“It’s one thing to see yourself get older and more and more out of shape but most of the people have never been in shape. So what does it mean getting out of shape?” he said.

“When you’ve been hailed for years as this supreme body, and you have the definition and you see the veins coming down your abs, and you see veins on top of your chest and then … you roll the clock 50 years and you’re standing there and you don’t see that anymore,” Schwarzenegger continued.

Schwarzenegger won the Mr. Olympia competition seven times in his prime.
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Although the “Terminator” actor admitted that he looks better than the “majority” of people his age, he still isn’t satisfied.

“I never, ever thought about that when I was 30 years old or 40 years old that this [was] going to happen,” he added. “It just sucks.”

Schwarzenegger says everything changed for him after he had open heart surgery at 50, leaving him feeling like “damaged goods” for the first time.

Source : https://pagesix.com/2023/10/06/arnold-schwarzenegger-on-aging-and-body-image-struggles-it-just-sucks

Meghan Markle wears anti-stress patch while Prince Harry is away in Asia

She’s trying to keep calm and carry on.

Meghan Markle was spotted wearing a calming device on her wrist during a stroll in California earlier this week.
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Meghan Markle was spotted wearing an anti-stress patch on her wrist as the mother of two spends some time without the help of her husband, Prince Harry.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, was photographed on a make-up free stroll Thursday in Montecito, Calif., while the Duke of Sussex, 38, is on a work trip in Asia.

She noticeably accessorized her camel-colored $1,625 Max Mara Rispoli coat and blue-and-tan printed $1,225 cashmere Hermès Rayures D’Ete shawl with a dark blue NuCalm biosignal processing disc.

The calming device “activates the parasympathetic nervous system” so that its user can have a “rapid return to a functional state (motor skills, attention, and full cognition) with no lingering effects or mental lethargy,” according to the product’s website.

A pack of 20 discs costs $80, while a set of 100 discs retails for $400.

It’s unknown whether Markle feels she is going through a particularly high-stress time and her rep did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.

A source tells us, though, that “NuCalm is incredible and has nothing necessarily to do with stress.”

However, the “Suits” alum does have her hands full with two young kids, while Harry is away overseas.

The couple shares a 4-year-old son, Prince Archie, and 2-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet.

Markle is in California with her two kids, while Prince Harry is on a work trip in Tokyo.
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The exact reason why the “Suits” alum is using an anti-stress patch is unknown.
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There have also been rumblings that the Sussexes were going through marital issues recently.

However, sources close to the pair told Page Six exclusively in July that any speculation of a looming breakup is false and those stories are “literally made up.”

Markle and Harry have also had some turmoil with their business endeavors, as they famously parted ways with Spotify in June following a $20 million deal with the streaming giant.

An insider previously told The Post that execs thought the couple didn’t produce enough content to receive their full multi-million dollar payout.

However, Markle, Harry and Spotify released a joint statement at the time that claimed the end of the partnership was “mutually agreed” upon by all parties involved.

A day after it was announced that the deal had been terminated, Spotify’s head of global sports strategy, Bill Simmons, called the Sussexes “lazy” and “f–king grifters.”

“I wish I had been involved in the ‘Megan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation,” he said during an episode of “The Bill Simmons Podcast” at the time.

Source: https://pagesix.com/2023/08/12/meghan-markle-wears-anti-stress-patch-while-prince-harry-is-in-tokyo/

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