A Perfectly Aging Tina Fey Says Getting Older Is Her Biggest Challenge

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Even Tina Fey, who has aged perfectly, says the biggest obstacle she faces is the natural progression of time. In an interview with Town & Country Magazine she says, "The greatest challenge for me as an actress is just getting older."

She continues: "Trying to play the scene at hand while also trying to hold your face up. Fast-forward to being 68, and it's a glorious act of bravery." But for her, "trying to hold her face up" doesn't involve injections, having expressed surprise at the number of Botoxed twentysomethings (!) at the Golden Globes.

"We've been so conditioned now to never see a real human face, one that moves, with its original teeth," she says. "Sometimes we forget that there is a choice. I choose not to do this. It's like wearing multiple pairs of Spanx: Good for you, not for me. Not mandatory."

Read the entire profile, in which she discusses her new film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, as well as the presidential campaign's effect on comedy ("It's funny until it isn't"), right here.