Martha Stewart shares 7 tips for aging well: 'Look good, feel good, be good'

Martha Stewart has emphasized her absorption connected steadfast living, arsenic she remains physically progressive and engaged successful concern and originative pursuits good into her 80s.

On a caller occurrence of the podcast "50 & Unfiltered," the manner icon, 84, spoke with her longtime person and colleague, QVC big Shawn Killinger, astir a assortment of topics, including wellness, resilience and surviving with a consciousness of purpose.

During the discussion, Stewart shared immoderate of her apical secrets to aging gracefully.

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No. 1: Treat aging similar a discipline, not a decline

Stewart shared that she believes aging good is the effect of accordant self-care, regular attraction and semipermanent subject alternatively than pursuing drastic fixes.

Martha Stewart has emphasized her absorption connected steadfast living, arsenic she remains physically progressive and engaged successful concern and originative pursuits good into her 80s. (Getty Images)

"It doesn't entreaty to me," she said erstwhile asked astir her thoughts connected integrative surgery. "I person this mentation that if 1 takes attraction of oneself truly good and follows strict but not life-threatening kinds of disciplines, 1 tin look good, consciousness bully and beryllium bully for a full life."

No. 2: Focus connected looking better, not conscionable younger

While Stewart has said that she avoids integrative surgery, she supports different people’s idiosyncratic choices. On the podcast, she shared a communicative of her ain mother’s experience.

"My parent came to maine erstwhile she was 85 and asked if I would assistance her get a facelift," she said. Stewart past took her to spot a well-known New York integrative surgeon.

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"He looked astatine her and said, ‘You're a beauteous woman. I can't marque you look younger, but I tin marque you look better,’" she recalled. "So she went for it … and she looked great."

"One of my mottos is: Learn thing caller each day."

Despite her deficiency of involvement successful going nether the knife, Stewart acknowledged that maintaining her quality requires ongoing effort. 

"I'm 84 years aged … and I'm trying truthful hard to look truly good," she said, sharing that she does person a facial wax each 3 months.

No. 3: Stay busy, funny and productive

Stewart has credited her engaged docket and beardown curiosity arsenic cardinal to staying crisp and engaged good into her 80s.

"I similar to work, and I similar to learn, and I similar to spell places, and I similar to beryllium busy," she replied erstwhile asked astir her galore commitments. "I similar to beryllium productive. One of my mottos is: Learn thing caller each day."

Stewart, pictured successful May 2025, shared that she believes aging good is the effect of accordant self-care, regular attraction and semipermanent subject alternatively than pursuing drastic fixes. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Stewart said her parents ever encouraged her and her siblings to beryllium "really, truly proactively engaged and [to] larn stuff."

When asked if she ever gets tired, Stewart admitted that she does, but said she doesn’t fto fatigue dilatory her down. "I was sick for a week, but I had to support working," she said. "I tin ne'er instrumentality off."

No. 4: Keep evolving, but don’t ‘reinvent’ yourself

One of Stewart’s astir wide known mottos is, "When you’re done changing, you’re through."

"Everybody says, ‘Oh, you're reinventing yourself,’" she said. "I’m not reinventing."

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Instead, Stewart embraces the thought of gradually, people evolving — successful everything from quality to regular habits and vocation pursuits.

"To reinvent means full alteration — but you can't," she said. "I'm not changing my bodily signifier oregon anything, but to get better, hopefully."

No. 5: Prioritize toughness and self-acceptance

Persistence and resilience are cardinal to overcoming setbacks and achieving goals, according to Stewart. 

"I deliberation I've ever been tough," she said. "I've lived done it all. You can't beryllium sensitive."

At 84, Stewart said she has "pretty overmuch everything she needs," and expressed a tendency to walk much clip with her family. (Getty Images)

She besides distinguishes betwixt uncovering happiness and being astatine bid with yourself.

"I'm blessed with myself," Stewart added.

No. 6: Prioritize household and carnal capability

At 84, Stewart said she has "pretty overmuch everything she needs," and expressed a tendency to walk much clip with her family.

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She besides emphasized the value of maintaining the carnal capableness to bask demanding activities, similar hiding, horseback riding and rafting, each of which she planned to bash during an upcoming household travel to Utah.

No. 7: Be applicable — and unafraid — astir mortality

When the podcast speech turned to end-of-life plans, Killinger asked Stewart astir her thoughts connected cremation. "I'm going to beryllium composted," she replied.

"When you’re done changing, you’re through."

When asked to elaborate, Stewart said her penchant mirrors the burial of her beloved animals implicit the years.

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"When 1 of my horses dies, we excavation a elephantine spread truly heavy successful 1 of my fields," she shared. "We person a favored cemetery, and the equine is wrapped successful a bladed achromatic linen expanse and is precise cautiously dropped down into this giant, beauteous grave. I privation to spell there."

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When asked whether that’s allowed, Stewart said, "It's not going to wounded anybody. It's my property."

She added that accepted burial procedures, specified arsenic coffins and tombstones, don’t entreaty to her.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Stewart requesting comment.