Hard-bodied Faith Hill marks 41st birthday with bikini pose

 

While some famous blondes might celebrate turning the big 4-1 by consulting their plastic surgeon or needle-wielding dermatologist, Faith Hill has decided to doff her duds to show the firming power of Pilates.

“… Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself,” the ab-tastic country star tells the December issue of Shape, crediting her thrice-weekly Pilates workouts for her ultra-toned figure.

“I could bend in ways I haven’t been able to since I was a teenager,” Mrs. Tim McGraw marvels to the magazine (via People). “My husband loves it!”

Hill, who’s mom to Gracie, 11, Maggie, 10, and Audrey, 6, admits it took her years to come around to the idea of a consistent workout routine.

“I was always very athletic, playing basketball and softball and running track,” she explains. “But in my 20s and 30s, I’d go through phases with exercise, working out for four weeks before a big tour or video shoot and not doing much afterward. Then I had three kids and turned 40, so I decided to make a lifestyle change.”

Giving Faith an added push was the knee surgery she underwent in January, which turned her sedentary for six months.

“I had never gone that long without doing something,” she admits. “I was not happy.”

Hill and McGraw started doing four miles a day on an elliptical machine in July, along with some weightlifting, crunches and push-ups.

“I found I slept better, had more energy and was stronger,” says Hill, who soon added the instructor-led Pilates to her routine.

“It was so hard, but ultimately so worth it,” she encouragingly declares. “My core is much stronger, and my arms are more toned.”

Angelina Jolie: We Do Have a Family Plan

With six kids in the brood and thoughts of adopting another, Angelina Jolie can only imagine what people must be thinking.

“I mean, I know we seem crazy, just bringing them in one after the other, but we do plan,” she tells the New York Times. “We make sure one is absorbed completely into the family before we add another.”

And as each child grows up and becomes Internet-savvy, Jolie, 33, sees even more challenges ahead for her and partner Brad Pitt, 44. “There’s a lot we’re going to have to explain to them about how public their family is,” she says.

But there’s good with that bad. “What’s going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool,” she says. “Because right now, we’re not cool Mom and Dad.”

Jolie adds, “They all think I can’t do anything, that I’m just there to snuggle with. But the other day (son) Madd said, ‘Can you do a cartwheel?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I can.’ And he was like, ‘Wow, Mom.’ And I thought: ‘Oh, yeah. I can do some things. You wait. You’ll find out. I’m capable.’”

Jennifer Aniston & John Mayer Reconnect for Dinner

 

Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer shared a dinner at New York City’s romantic Il Mulino last weekend, sources tell PEOPLE.

“They looked like they were having a fantastic time,” says one observer of the Saturday night dinner. A source close to John adds, “They were hanging out this weekend.”

Aniston, 39, in New York on business, dined with Mayer, 30, on oysters, ravioli with mushrooms and black truffles and fish. The actress returned to Los Angeles on Monday.

Even though his summer romance with Aniston is now a thing of the past, Mayer, according to a friend, is “someone who is known for staying connected to people he cares about and for staying friends with people he’s been linked to.”

Not everyone remains convinced a re-match might be a good thing. Says one pal: “If they are back together, Jen is not bragging about it to her friends.”

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