Melissa Gilbert.Photo: George Holz
Melissa Gilbert’s days of chasing youth are behind her.
“I grew up in an industry that values the outside considerably more than the inside, and I was caught in that wheel of trying to stay young,” she says in the latest issue of PEOPLE.
Melissa Gilbert.George Holz
Melissa Gilbert as a child.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty
Melissa Gilbert on Little House on the Prairie.Everett
After marrying her husband actorTimothy Busfieldin 2013, the couple moved to Howell, Michigan, where Gilbert embraced a more natural lifestyle.
“I cut off all my hair and quit doing Botox and all that stuff,” she says of a decision that Busfield, 64, strongly backed. She also experienced a “reawakened love for the outdoors.”
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Melissa Gilbert and her husband Timothy Busfield.George Holz
Since then, the pair have settled into a peaceful life at their mountainside cabin in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
“I was always trying too hard to fit the mold that someone else wanted,” says Gilbert. “I’m finally happy in my own skin. I’m so grateful and relieved and so much happier.”
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source: people.com
