Dame Jane Seymour, known for her stunning 5-foot-3-inch physique, embraces a versatile approach to fitness. However, there’s one form of exercise she deliberately excludes from her routine.
In a conversation with Fox News Digital on Sunday, the 75-year-old Emmy winner shared her perspective on yoga classes, admitting she’s had to remind herself not to compete in these group settings due to her highly competitive nature.
“I have this need to win! This competitive streak leads me to believe I can twist myself into a pretzel like others in the class—even if it’s my first attempt. But no, that’s simply not realistic,” Seymour confessed with a laugh.
Born Joyce Frankenberg, Seymour elaborated on her philosophy, saying, “If I push myself too hard, I risk ending up in a hospital. I opt to try various activities but in a manner that’s sensible for me. It’s all about listening to my body.”
Instead of yoga, the star of “Harry Wild” prefers a combination of ballet barre exercises, sit-ups, light weightlifting, hiking, Pilates, and Gyrotonics to stay fit.
As for Seymour’s diet, she sticks to Mediterranean fare, stays away from most starch and drinks very moderately (except while filming) but she never wants ‘to think I’m on a diet.’
Dame Jane Seymour has always had a ‘try anything’ attitude about maintaining her sensational 5ft 3in figure, but there’s one type of exercise she won’t add to her fitness regimen (pictured May 19)
The Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman alum grows her own organic food and has chickens at her Malibu home, but she only consumes one big meal a day around 1:30pm.
As for plastic surgery, the British grandmother-of-four admitted on Steph’s Packed Lunch in 2022 that she had her ‘breasts improved’ at age 40 as well as a ‘minor’ eyelift in the nineties.
Seymour is set to walk down the aisle for a fifth time as she just announced her engagement to doctor-musician John Zambetti after nearly three years of dating.
‘It was actually Valentine’s Day, the day before her birthday. I thought, “This is insane. I’m just gonna do it,”‘ Zambetti told People on June 12.
‘I got down on my knees, the whole thing. I had the ring hidden in the safe, pulled out the ring. I opened the box, and the ring popped out of the box, onto the bed.
‘Then I had to climb under the bed, and then I couldn’t get out, and she had to get out of the bed and pull me out of the bed.’
The former Bond Girl added: ‘And we weren’t wearing any clothes.’
‘For us, the most important thing, it’s about us and about our families,’ Seymour said of the ceremony.
The 75-year-old Emmy winner told Fox News Digital on Sunday: ‘I’ve had to actually tell myself that when I go into a group class, especially something like yoga, that I have to tell myself I am not going to win, because I’m way too A-type’ (pictured March 26)
Seymour said: ‘I want to win! Which means that I can never have done yoga, and I will decide that I could turn myself into the pretzel like that person. No. No, I cannot’ (pictured August 20)
The Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman alum added: ‘I’ll end up in the hospital or something, so my approach is to try everything, but do it the way that I know I can. So, I listen to my body’ (pictured June 11)
Seymour executive produces and stars as the titular Harriet Wild, a retired literature professor, in the six-episode fifth season of David Logan’s detective dramedy, which airs Mondays on Acorn TV
‘We’ve got a lot of very close friends and no one’s getting any younger. So I think at some point there will be some [sort of celebration or ceremony.]’
The two-time Golden Globe winner welcomed four children – daughter Katherine, 44, son Sean, nearly 40, and twin sons John & Kristopher, 30 – during her marriages to James Keach and David Flynn.
Seymour executive produces and stars as the titular Harriet Wild, a retired literature professor, in the six-episode fifth season of David Logan’s detective dramedy, which airs Mondays on Acorn TV.
The Twelve Dates ‘Til Christmas star – who became a naturalized US citizen in 2005 – runs her own scarf company Jane Seymour Designs, her charity Open Hearts Foundation and she’s penning a memoir.