Jaclyn Smith Shares the Surprising Reason She Still Looks So Young at 80, and Fans Loved It.

Jaclyn Smith Opens Up About Aging Gracefully at 80

Jaclyn Smith is 80, but she’s not sweating it. At the Paley Honors Spring Gala in NYC, the Charlie’s Angels star talked about how she keeps that youthful glow — and her answer was pretty down-to-earth. She said it really comes down to two things: living healthy and having good people around you. “A strong support system makes all the difference,” she told Fox News Digital.

“I was blessed to have the most wonderful family in the world to grow up with, ” she said. “Married to an awesome man, I have two lovely kids and three granddaughters. That is as good as life could get for me. It is the theme of my life, to be all about a love and a family.”

At their 50th anniversary party, the film star, who was remembered as Kelly Garrett during her tenure from 1976 to the end of the shooting in 1981, was one of the most talked about persons on the red carpet at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.

Jaclyn Smith Reflects on the Impact of Charlie’s Angels as Fans Admire Her Timeless Beauty

On Instagram, Jaclyn discussed the night, “Hello from The Paley Honors gala in New York! It was a delight to celebrate once again with my friends from the Paley Center.”

Admirers poured in comments praising the actress and her youthful appearance.
“Have a great 50th anniversary, you look gorgeous, ” one fan posted. “Amazing, ” “Still beautiful ladies, ” and “Wow, you both look like you haven’t aged” were some of the other comments. One more fan who mostly aggregates quotes said, “Classic beauties.”

Jaclyn Smith looks back on how Charlie’s Angels helped her become a style icon

“Jaclyn Smith, an absolutely legendary woman. Elegant, sophisticated, forever classy and we your fans just thoroughly enjoy seeing you living your best life, ” one fan wrote on social media. “Thanks you.”

Smith confessed she didn’t think the show would become so deeply ingrained in the culture the way it did, even though it turned her into one of television’s most famous faces.

“No, when I was just starting out, ” she told Fox News Digital after being asked whether she thought she was turning into a style icon at the time the show was getting famous. “However I suppose we did introduce a bit of glamor and the way women were looked at. In fact, we sort of set the stage for new roles for women.”

Upon its release in 1976, Charlie’s Angels was a huge success that very quickly made Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett household names worldwide.

Kate Jackson Says She Wouldn’t Mind Living on a Farm More Than Hollywood after Charlie’s Angels Fame

It is well known that Farrah Fawcett left Charlie’s Angels after its first season while Kate Jackson left after Season 3, Jaclyn Smith was the only original Angel to stay with the series for its entire five-season run.

At The Paley Honors Spring Gala, the stars looked back at the continuous success of the legendary detective series which is still being broadcast worldwide almost 50 years after it was first aired.

Jackson confessed that the show’s long-term popularity still amazes her.

“It’s great, ” she answered. “I mean, for us to be here 50 years later, 50 years after the premiere, and the show is still on television all over the world, hasn’t even had a break, it’s just really unbelievable.”

However, nowadays, the actress opts for peace and quiet far from Hollywood. Living on a farm in Virginia, Jackson laughed that she doesn’t really want to be in the spotlight 24/7 again.

“I’d rather be on the farm than spot a red carpet any day of the week, ” she smiled.

Kate Jackson has found peace in leaving Hollywood behind, a peace she never knew while working in showbiz, she tells the feature.

“What I love is that there’s no pressure. It’s just splendid, you have the animals and a few friends… it’s a great way to live, ” Jackson added. “It is far better than… sometimes it can be a bit much.”

Jaclyn Smith, on the other hand, is using the time to look back at a star-studded life that spanned over fifty years, whereas Kate Jackson is happily enjoying her time on her Virginia farm.

In the early 1970s, Smith was a model but later she got some TV exposure with cameo appearances in McCloud, Switch, The Rookies, etc. Her big break was when Charlie’s Angels made her famous worldwide.

Then she got a Golden Globe nomination for a TV film about the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis titled “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.”

Besides movies, she has had a long personal story too. She has been married four times and finally she met lasting love with doctor Brad Allen; they got married in 1997 after she had met him during her father’s stay at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.