Mindy Cohn at the ‘Palm Royale’ premiere in Beverly Hills, California in March.Photo:Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage
Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage
ForMindy Cohn, the best is yet to come.
“I wasn’t one of those girls that peaked in high school,” she recalled to the outlet. “To be quite frank with you, I think I’m peaking now. I think I’m going to look the most adorable in my 60s. And I think girls like me, who have that life where you really aren’t your most attractive in your 20s and 30s [and] actually start to really kind of look good in your 50s and 60s, have it so much easier. I didn’t necessarily feel [as] protective over my physical self as people who are told they’re attractive.”
Kim Fields, Lisa Whelchel, Nancy McKeon, Charlotte Rae and Mindy Cohn in ‘The Facts of Life.'.Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty
Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty
While Cohn admits some of her friends aren’t taking aging lightly — “They’re really fighting it, and it hurts my heart," she said — the actress and one of her best friends have found a solution for every time they consider a “nip, tuck, fill, or pull”: they singFrozen’spower ballad “Let It Go.”
“[The body] is the vessel,” she said, referring to the nature of being a character actor. “We want to look the age we are.”
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, the actress underwent what she once called a five-year “siege” with breast cancer, eventually undergoing a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.
“I’ve always been an optimist,” shetold PEOPLEin 2017. “But the cancer metastasized. It kept spreading and coming back. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, and then it would. And then I’d wait for another shoe to drop, and it would. I was frustrated and enraged. I couldn’t control any of this. I couldn’t fix it.”
Madeline Hayes, Lulu Johnson, Mindy Cohn, Neda Soderqvist and Lynn De Logi posed topless in a pool in 2017 in a nod to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
With thesupport of friendsshe now considers her chosen family, Cohn is cancer-free and thriving. Among those friends areFacts of LifecostarNancy McKeon, whom she considers a “soul sister.”
“I was literally talking to Nancy McKeon this morning,” she toldVanity Fair,noting that the two are “still, to this day, are very, very close friends.”
“She watched the first three episodes ofPalm Royaleand called to say, ‘Hey, pal, I’m so proud of you.’ It’s 45 years later, and I’m so looking forward to people seeing me in a different way,” she added.
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