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Heather Graham Shares Swimsuit Photo for "Hot Tomato Girl Summer"

This is what 53 looks like.

Heather Graham is looking gorgeous as always on a summer vacation in beautiful Greece. Graham, 53, shared highlights from her trip, including some envy-inspiring swimsuit photos. One picture shows the actress posing in a tomato-red bikini, and in another she's wearing a white knit bikini on the beach. "Hot tomato girl summer 🍅🇬🇷❤️🍝," she captioned the post. How does Graham stay so fit? Here are 5 ways she takes care of herself, inside and out.

1

Yoga Every Day

Graham is a decades-long yogi. "I absolutely love yoga," she says. "I can practice properly on my own, but I do like the energy of a class. My yoga teacher in LA is a friend, and I've often said her classes are like healthy raves. She plays upbeat music, which not a lot of yoga teachers do, and it distracts you from the pain. I've discovered a lot of great musicians through yoga classes. You get into a sort of athletic euphoria. I guess you're releasing endorphins – a good backbend will do that to you."

2

Lots of Sleep

Graham swears by getting proper sleep for her ageless looks. "I think one of the main things is sleep," she says. "I try to get a lot of sleep. Beyond that, I think just being happy on the inside and whatever. I do all the self-help stuff: I meditate, I do yoga, I work through all the stuff in therapy. I do all the different kinds of sorting through my inner world to make myself feel happy on the inside. And it's important to me to surround myself with loving people."

3

Home Cooking

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Graham loves cooking her own meals at home. "Guacamole's a bit of an obsession of mine," she says. "I make loads of it. I cook healthy food, and love getting creative with salads – one of my favorites is a salad with broccoli, hazelnuts, feta cheese and cherry tomatoes. It's delicious. I also make a really good endive, beetroot, walnut, and blue-cheese combination."

4

Growing Her Own Vegetables

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Graham has a green thumb, and enjoys growing her own fruits and vegetables. "Gardening relaxes me," she says. "I have a really lovely garden at my house in LA, and I'm just learning how to take care of it. It's really quite easy, because I have the luxury of sprinklers. Rocket grows well there, and I've had strawberries and tomatoes… and some really sad-looking mutated carrots and potatoes! I managed to grow a gigantic zucchini at one stage, too! At the moment, I'm trying corn and avocados. It's great, when you're making a salad, to be able to go right into the garden and pick your own produce. It feels good to think that you could sustain yourself with food growing on your own property."

5

Aging Gracefully

Graham refuses to feel bad about her age or getting older. "I think, culturally, there is definitely a message out there that keeps telling us, 'Women feel bad about yourself!' It seems like there's no age where we're really allowed to feel good about ourselves—except for maybe a very short window," she says. "The rest of the time we're supposed to feel like, 'I'm too young or I'm too old.' For me, I have to unplug from the culture, which is a patriarchal way of looking at things, and to affirm myself and be happy and grateful for what I do have… Of course, getting older is a little bit scary—I won't lie! At the same time, I feel like I've never been happier, weirdly. I do feel that I have more self-esteem now."

Ferozan Mast
Ferozan Mast is a science, health and wellness writer with a passion for making science and research-backed information accessible to a general audience. Read more
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