‘I’m already naked’. Mary J. Blige For Healthy Living Magazine [Photos]

How she stays motivated to work out and stick to a routine:

My motivation is how it makes me feel. It’s not necessarily how it makes me look; that’s a perk— that’s beautiful. I love all the results but most important is how it makes me feel. I feel happy when I run, when I train. Once I leave the gym, if it was a hard workout, I feel like I can have a productive day. I can start my day. It makes me feel great inside my head and my heart. My spirit is uplifted. It’s a very uplifting thing for me and that’s what draws me to it. It’s not so much the workout, because the workout is hard and I hate that, but once it’s over and I know I got it done, I feel like I can go conquer the world.

Advice on how to stay young and look ageless:

Getting older is inevitable, but aging is optional. So however you take care of yourself is what you’re going to look like. So what you eat, what you think and how you think is going to be a reflection of how you feel. If you think that you’re just a broke down, horrible looking person that’s what you’re going to look like, but if you think that you are the best you that you can be and that’s all you can be, it’s going to shine through your eyes. Take care of yourself. It’s going to come from the inside out. And it took me a long time to get here, but this is why I look the way you say I look. To me it’s not about how my hair looks all the time on the red carpet. It’s about how I treat you right now, how I treat everybody in the moment. That makes me go home and just feel good about myself and all of that in my heart comes through my face and my body and my eyes. It’s really about the inside. Inside out.

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