United Kingdom, Aug. 11 -- Gillian Anderson prefers to "ignore" ageing and because it's not something that "needs to be fixed".

The X Files star, 58, is adamant the conversation about getting older needs to change because everyone needs to be more accepting about the physical changes that come in later years.

She told Grazia magazine: "I ignore it. I behave as I have always behaved - as though I am invincible and never going to die.

"There are so many tools for arresting ageing. And as much as the conversation around ageing has evolved, most of the narrative still centres around it being something we should be afraid of, running from, or something that needs to be fixed.

"We need to be more accepting of ageing, to embrace it - we've s...