Celebrities don’t mess when it comes to beach bodies! And age has very little impact on the amazing abs and toned physiques of these stars over 40.
A-lister actresses and singers like Gabrielle Union, Gwen Stefani and Jennifer Lopez set the bar high. And others including reality star Bethenny Frankel and TV host Kelly Ripa keep raising it further with six-pack abs, muscular arms and strong, lean legs.
How do they get their banging bodies? Besides genetics, most are dedicated to their workouts — everything from Pilates to yoga to jogging to group classes like DanceBody and sessions with personal trainers keep these ladies fit. And, of course, there are the strict diets some follow, including intermittent fasting, vegan-based eating and more. Scroll through to see the amazing bikini bodies of celebs in their fourth decade — and get your own nutrition and fitness tips!
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Susan Lucci
“Mm-mmm ocean view/sea breezes,” the All My Children alum captioned a January 2022 video via Instagram of her hair blowing in the wind at the beach. Lucci, who turned 75 just a couple weeks prior to posting, looked stunning in her white one-piece and lilac sarong.
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Vanessa Williams
Forever young! The actress showed off her fabulous bikini body in a white suit by ViX, sharing the picture via Instagram in July 2021. “Are we doing bikini shots in our early 50s? Ok,” she captioned the post.
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Heather Graham
One with nature! The actress rocked a little cheetah-print bikini during her July 2021 trip to Italy. “The color of the water,” she captioned her Instagram post.
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Demi Moore
Never looked better! The actress showed off her washboard abs in July 2021, sharing a bikini-clad photo via Instagram. “Getting ready for another day in paradise,” she captioned her selfie.
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Bethenny Frankel
In May 2021, the SkinnyGirl CEO, 40, was spotted on the beach in Miami wearing a hot pink bikini with cutouts.
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Kristen Bell
The Frozen star wished her fans a “bon día” in April 2021 as she soaked up some sun in while hanging out by the pool and flaunting her bikini body at the age of 40.
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Heidi Klum
The Project Runway alum showed off her toned abs in a bikini shot in August 2020 at age 47.
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Eva Longoria
Hot mama! The Desperate Housewives alum, 44, sizzled in a red swimsuit in an Instagram photo she posted on August 18, 2019. Holding a cocktail and staying sun safe under a large hat, the actress showed off her toned legs and slim waist. As she told Us in December 2018, five months after welcoming her first baby, she had just returned to working out after giving her body “time to adjust to postpartum.” The yoga devotee assured Us, “I still love yoga,” but noted that she had added more intensity to her fitness regimen. “My workouts now are more weight training and very serious weight training,” she said.
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Michelle Monaghan
On August 14, 2019, the Mission: Impossible – Fallout star celebrated her Italian vacation with a joyful Instagram photo of herself frolicking in the ocean. The pic, which the 43-year-old actress captioned “Ciao Italia. I’m yours. Per sempre,” highlighted her amazing six-pack abs and toned arms. Monaghan has said she loves working out as much for her mind as her body — but that doesn’t mean she takes it easy. “I hike in the morning if I can, after I drop the kids off at school. If not, I’ll go for a run. Typically, I’ll do 30 minutes, which is a three-mile run for me,” she told Shape in 2016. “I started doing Pilates, too, and it’s really challenging. I find that it’s a good balance for my running, which makes my muscles tight. Pilates loosens me up. I also love SoulCycle.”
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Bethenny Frankel
She’s 48 and looking great! On July 23, 2019, The Real Housewives of New York City star took to Instagram to share a photo of her toned and tanned body in a white frilly bikini. “Always say YES to a new adventure! ✨,” the yoga devotee captioned the photo of herself on summer vacation in Italy.
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Jada Pinkett Smith
The Red Table Talk host seems to be getting better with age! On July 19, 2019, the 47-year-old actress celebrated the warm weather with an Instagram photo of herself beaming as she sat on a boat with her head tipped back, wearing a green leaf-motif bikini. “I’LL take that joyful hot girl summer thank you🌞✨,” she captioned the pic. On a January edition of her Facebook show, Pinkett Smith shared that she loves to do fitness influencer Whitney Simmons’ at-home workouts. “Whenever I need tips on how to work out specific parts of my body, I go to Whitney Simmons’ YouTube page,” she said. She’s also posted videos of herself working out at the gym with her mother 65-year-old mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and her 18-year-old daughter, Willow.
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Padma Lakshmi
The Top Chef star, 48, knows how to beat the heat — and create some! On July 17, 2019, Lakshmi posted a photo of herself in a small purple bikini that showed her impeccably toned figure on the beach in New York’s Hamptons. “100°F this weekend. ‘Perfect,’” she captioned the pic, adding the hashtags #noretouchingupinhere and #nofacetuneeither. Indeed, the secret to her svelte body is low-fi: intense workouts. “I love to box — regular boxing,” she told Us in May 2019. “I’m good at Southpaw [stance] — no kickboxing. Old-school, Mohammed Ali boxing.”
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Catt Sadler
The “Naked With Catt Sadler” podcast host sure knows how to make a splash! On June 30, 2019, the 44-year-old former E! News host posted a photo of herself in a bikini on a cell phone float in a pool. “Do you think they make a bag of rice big enough to save this phone?” she captioned the Instagram pic. To keep her body in tip-top shape, Sadler likes to work up a sweat. “I’m a big believer in hot yoga and also really obsessed with a place called The Shape House, which is a sweat lodge and has infrared light and you go in this pod and you sweat and sweat and sweat out all your toxins and you burn a lot of calories and it’s really good for your skin,” she told Us Weekly earlier in the month. As for her diet, “I limit dairy when I’m trying to be really good, but that’s really it,” she said. “I eat pretty clean. I’m a clean-during-the-week girl, and I go off the rails on the weekend a little bit.”
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Brooke Burke
Bow down to the booty! On June 17, 2019, the Brooke Burke Body app founder, 47, showed that fitness really does pay off! Strolling down the beach in Malibu, California, she flaunted an amazing body and tight, high butt. “I just make a choice to take care of my body and my health,” the star recently told Us of having a regular fitness regimen. “For me it’s harder not to work out — I don’t have time not to work out.”
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Kenya Moore
She’s 48 years old, she had a baby seven months ago … and she’s hotter than ever! The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum posted a photo on Instagram on June 11, 2019, that showed off her slim figure and sculpted abs in a bright yellow bikini. The star wrote that plant-based supplements by Body Complete RX “got me snatched.” Moore also practiced yoga and worked out at the gym with a waist trainer after welcoming her daughter, Brooklyn, in November 2018.
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Giada De Laurentiis
She may cook Italian food for a living, but all that pasta clearly doesn’t affect the petite Food Network chef’s svelte form! In a bright pink one-piece and cut-off shorts, the 48-year-old displayed toned legs and a slim frame while enjoying the sunset in Miami on February 20, 2019. As she’s told Us, her 10-year-old daughter, Jade, inspires her to work out. “I want to feel good for her, and I work a lot. So feeling good is really important,” she said. “Working out is part of my routine. And I grew up watching my mom do the same thing.” The family fitness philosophy is equally balanced: “We’re little people that do a little bit of everything, but not a lot of anything!”
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Stella McCartney
Following a vegan lifestyle has done McCartney’s body good! The celeb-favorite designer, 47, splashed in the waves at St. Barts with her family on January 3, 2019.
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Molly Sims
A plunging one-piece suited the 45-year-old in St. Barts on New Year’s Day 2019. “I mean, listen, I worked for it,” Sims told Us in September 2018 of her bikini body. The model does DanceBody and Tracy Anderson classes for exercise, while her diet consists of “a little less rosé, and a little intermittent fasting,” she added. “Hard, but good.”
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Padma Lakshmi
“My fitness goals are to maintain the way that I am,” the Top Chef host (here in Miami on January 7, 2019) told Us in December 2018. Besides eating vegetarian when her show isn’t filming, Lakshmi, 48, goes for a knock-out fitness regimen. “I’m deep into the boxing and I’ve been in New York for a while, so I’ve been going three times a week now, which is what I want,” she revealed. “Boxing is such a great exercise, not only is it good for you physically, it’s good for you mentally and physically and emotionally, it increases your focus. So it’s been great for me all around.”
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Heather Graham
On December 20, 2018, the Angie Tribeca actress cheered herself up on a cold day in NYC with a throw-back photo. “#tbt to being in the Bahamas earlier this year,” she wrote on Instagram.
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Bethenny Frankel
The Real Housewives of New York star, 48, showed her toned body in a bikini in Miami on December 4, 2018. She’s a yoga devotee who has even put out her own DVD series, Bethenny Frankel’s SkinnyGirl Yoga Workouts.
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Minnie Driver
The 48-year-old actress was chasing rainbows on November 27, 2018. “By the time we got the phone out the #rainbow had gone,” she captioned this photo on her Instagram account.
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Jennifer Lopez
When Us asked Lopez in 2018 if you could bounce quarters off her abs, the 49-year-old star answered, “on some days, yes!” No wonder she noted that “Everything’s just peachy 🍑” on this September 16, 2018 Instagram photo.
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Jennifer Garner
Garner, 46, showed off her six-pack abs, toned arms and muscular legs in a September 7, 2018 Instagram. The star got in killer shape for her action thriller Peppermint thanks to boxing and dance-based rebound workouts with her trainer Simone De La Rue.
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Brooke Burke
On August 27, 2018, the actress and trainer, 47, shot a video for her fitness app, Brooke Burke Body. As for her healthy habits, “I like to set goals for the year, rather than the things I need to break, and just set myself up for success,” the star, who does intermittent fasting, told Us in December 2018. “Make a plan and write it down and it’s tangible.”
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Angela Kinsey
“Weekend vacay! That’s an ice tea folks… settle down,” the Fresh Off the Boatactress, 47, captioned her August 24, 2018 Instagram photo.
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Teresa Giudice
At 46, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star began entering bodybuilding competitions. She showed off the results of her intense workouts at a June 7, 2018 photoshoot in her home state. Two days later, she placed third in the 2018 NPC South Jersey Championships’ Bikini Division.
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Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Union works hard for her body. The actress, 45 years old in Greece on August 24, 2017, has demonstrated her intense total-body strength circuits and plyometric exercises on her Instagram. Typical moves: barbell squats, chest presses on a stability ball, box jumps, lateral cable pulls and sled pushes.
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Gwen Stefani
There’s no doubt she has a killer bod! Stefani’s bikini on July 30, 2017 showed off the 47-year-old singer’s famous abs in Newport Beach, California.
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Heidi Klum
The America’s Got Talent host, 44, showered off sand in Cannes, Frances on July 28, 2017. To squeeze in quick workouts, she’s told Us, “I have a few things in my attic. I have some weights. I also have this round circle, I actually saw it on QVC. It’s like this round thing that you can squeeze between your legs and then you can squeeze your thighs together. But you can also use it for your arms and you can squish it in, so that’s supposed to be good for your chest, for your breasts, to keep them up and perky.” The German model also loves running outside and on her treadmill and swimming with her kids.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
The Goop founder and all-around alternative wellness advocate, 44, glowed on vacation in Marbella, Spain on June 24, 2017.
