Spanish actress and model, Elsa Pataky has been married to MCU star Chris Hemsworth for the past 10 years. She is best known in the popular franchise Fast and Furious as Elena Neves. She rose to fame primarily due to Spanish film industry-inspired drama series like  Los Serrano and  Al Salir de Clase and also appeared in several Spanish films, including Di Di Hollywood and Iznogoud, Solo en la Buhardilla is also featured in Hemsworth’s Thor: Love and Thunder as  Sakaaran Nurse.

Elsa Pataky confesses her greatest fear is losing vitality

Elsa Pataky recently had an interview with Elle Magazine, where she mostly discussed personal and more intimate aspects of her life. During the talk, she opened up about her greatest fears. She said she hasn’t had many fears in her life, but if she did, she would try to avoid paying attention to them, and that makes them mature in dealing with fears. Pataky said. “I haven’t had many fears in my life, and if I do, I try to avoid them, trying not to even glance at them or pay them attention”.

Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth

She confessed that one of her greatest fears is aging and losing vitality. She acknowledged that physical aging is a naturally occurring phenomenon, and as an active person, if she found that her body did not show any progress, she would get frustrated.
One of the actress’s greatest fears is aging and losing vitality, Physically aging. I am a very active person, and if my body doesn’t allow me to progress, I would start to get frustrated. That scares me,
The actress empathized with the importance of maintaining natural beauty and expressed her concern about the alterations that people make to look according to imposed beauty standards. She added that our perception has gone very narrow in defining the concept of beauty. One who does not conform to the so-called beauty standards is labeled as imperfect. She said, “An idea continues to prevail: if one isn’t beautiful or doesn’t conform to the imposed standards of beauty, then they are considered imperfect. And that’s not the case.”

Elsa Pataky warns against social media’s unrealistic normalization of beauty

Elsa Pataky as Elena Neves from Fast and Furious

Pataky mentioned that there are instances when we feel low about ourselves. In such situations, we would compare ourselves, which would gradually make us insecure and frustrated. Alterations and filters have become common on social media, where people are embarrassed to show their true features. She stated that becoming a victim of this process would ruin the self-esteem of particularly young people.

Filters and retouching are becoming more and more common on social media, and they are wreaking havoc, especially on the self-esteem of young people. All these artificial beauties and the standards being set are not real.”

Elsa Pataky

She stressed the fact that some who avoid their age are avoiding themselves. Society has conditioned us to consider being youthful as the synonym for beauty and becoming old as abominable. As a result, individuals are attempting to counteract the natural process through various alterations to attain youthful appearances.

“Someone who avoids their age is someone who is avoiding themselves, “But we, as a society, have also supported the idea that only young faces are beautiful and we overlook the older ones. Perhaps it’s time to reclaim the beauty of every wrinkle, as each one of them is an experience.”
In conclusion, Hemsworth’s wife emphasized the importance of self-acceptance. She highlighted that happiness lies when one embraces the natural feature and accepts the changes in every stage of our lives. She encourages the individual to prioritize self-love instead of victimizing societal pressure and unrealistic beauty standards.

Source: MARCA