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Joan Collins shares her simple secrets to aging gracefully at 93
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Joan Collins knows a thing or two about building a "Dynasty."
The legendary actress, who is keeping busy at age 93 and starring in a new movie titled "My Duchess," is offering crystal-clear advice on aging gracefully.
"I just love life," the "Dynasty" alum told The Independent at Variety's Women of Power event. "I wake up every morning and breathe the air, try to get a good night's sleep, drink lots of water and take care of myself."
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"Dynasty" alum Joan Collins is sharing her secrets to aging gracefully while promoting her new movie "My Duchess," which premiered at Cannes. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images; Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images for John Gore Studios)
Even Collins needs a confidence boost now and then. The star has a glamorous cure: watching "old movies."
"If you’re very lucky, you might manage to find an old Bette Davis film once in a while," Collins told the outlet. "But I like the films of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the ones with [Jack] Nicholson and Sarah Jessica Parker."
Dame Joan Collins attends the opening ceremony and screening of "La Vénus Electrique" during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on May 12, 2026. (Gisela Schober/Getty Images)
The Emmy-nominee previously told The Telegraph that she still goes to the gym to both look and feel her best.
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"I work out with my trainer a couple of times a week," she explained. "Just basic Pilates-type exercises rather than using one of those [reformer] Pilates machines."
As for getting her steps in, Collins isn't exactly pounding the pavement.
Dame Joan Collins attends the 10th Annual Lady Garden Foundation Langan's Ladies Lunch at Langan's Brasserie in London on Oct. 15, 2024, raising funds for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. (Dave Benett/Getty Images)
"It bores me," she admitted to the outlet. "I'll walk around my apartment tweaking the flowers, but that's about it. That sounds ridiculous, and it will look ridiculous when you see it in print, but it's true."
Joan Collins attends the Variety 2026 Power of Women London event presented by Lifetime at The Chancery Rosewood in London on June 3, 2026. (Doug Peters/Variety)
Collins emphasized she’s lucky to have "very good genes."
"My father lived to be 87, and for somebody born in 1903, that’s pretty amazing," she said. "My mother took incredibly exceptional care of me and my sister. When we were growing up, she gave us all [kinds of] supplements when nobody was taking supplements."
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Collins' secret to staying young at heart may also be closer to home: husband No. 5 Percy Gibson, who is 32 years her junior. Collins married the producer in 2002, and after kissing plenty of frogs, she believes she has finally found her prince.
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Joan Collins is seen here with her husband Percy Gibson at the Variety 2026 Power of Women London event at The Chancery Rosewood in London on June 3, 2026. (Doug Peters/Variety)
"First of all, we were great pals before we got married," the actress explained to Fox News Digital in 2023. "We worked together on a play. We enjoyed each other's company. We hung out together. We saw each other the following year. We wrote love letters. It was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the same wavelength."
Joan Collins and Percy Gibson married on Feb. 17, 2002, in London. (Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images)
"He is a really nice, kind, grounded person," she said. "Many of the people that I've been with — and I'm not going to specify which ones — have been either neurotic, slightly unbalanced or gotten into different things."
For Collins, their age gap is "just a number." She noted that it's "never too late" to find love at any stage of life.
Joan Collins' memoir, "Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends," was published in 2023. (Permuted Press)
"That’s how we both feel," she explained. "And we were friends first, above anything else."
She noted at the time that they shared the same drive, which she said has been part of the secret behind their lasting union.
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Joan Collins is seen here at her villa in Saint-Tropez, France, with her husband Percy Gibson in August 2013. (Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images)
"I was born with a tremendous enthusiasm for life," she said. "My mother used to say that I never kept still when I was a child. I used to do five different things at once. I would be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll's house, reading, painting and trying to become a detective — all at once!"
Joan Collins (right) starred in "Dynasty" opposite Linda Evans (left) and John Forsythe (center). (Bob D'Amico/Disney General Entertainment Content)
"Life is a gift," she said. "That's why they call it the present — it's a gift. And so many people waste it. It's so sad. It's a gift, and it does not last very long."
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Actress Joan Collins and Percy Gibson are seen here in their master bedroom, circa 2013. (Eddie Sanderson/Getty Images)
In her memoir "Behind the Shoulder Pads," Collins wrote that Gibson wasn't concerned about the age difference because "I have great vitality and enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer."
"Percy often admits that I can wear him out!" she wrote.
Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.
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