Why Is Donna Mills Clapping Back at Internet Trolls? Inside Her Inspiring Message About Style
At 85, iconic actress Donna Mills has an important message for anyone who thinks she should tone down her look: “Sorry, not sorry.”
The Knots Landing alum fired back at a social media critic in an Instagram Reel posted April 5 after an Instagram user told her, “You wear too much makeup for your age.” Fans flooded the comments of the video with support for the star, praising her for always staying true to herself and not letting the trolls get her down.
What Donna Mills Said in Her Viral Instagram Video
In the video, Mills appears in a black leather jacket, a black lacy tank top and blue jeans. Her blonde curls and mauve eyeshadow are on full display as she jokes that she “didn’t get the memo” about how she’s supposed to look at her age.
The clip then cuts to Mills in a gray bun and ruffled blouse, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a pearl necklace.
“Did you want me to look like this?” she quips.
“Sorry, not sorry. I like the way I look. This is my style, and style doesn’t have an expiration date,” she concludes, adding in the caption: “I said what I said 🤍 #style #aging #makeup #clapback #armchairwarrior.”
How Fans Reacted to Donna Mills’ Clapback
The comments section filled with encouragement.
“Donna you’re fabulous and look fantastic! Don’t ever listen to the trolls,” one person said.
“Your makeup has been stunning since the 80s please don’t ever change!” wrote another.
“I love this… you can’t please everyone. As long as you’re happy that’s all that matters. Whoever made that comment is definitely not happy with the way they look,” another person said.
“I can’t believe people can be so rude. I think you look wonderful. I don’t care if I’m 80 I will wear my makeup and I will color my hair til I can’t anymore lol,” said another fan.
What Donna Mills Has Been Doing Since ‘Knots Landing’
Mills starred on Knots Landing as Abby Cunningham from 1980 to 1989. Decades later, she has found a different kind of fulfillment.
She and her partner of over two decades, Larry Gilman, started Mandeville Vineyards — a crop of grapes located in her backyard in Los Angeles.
“I go up there to the vineyard, which is right behind my house up on the hill, and I’m there in another dimension,” she told Woman’s World in an August 2024 interview. “I weed. There’s trimming. There’s affixing the vines to the wire to make them grow up straight. I do that for hours and hours.”
“I just lose myself there,” she added. “You don’t even think about anything else. It’s all centered on that and it’s so good for your head to get out of everything that’s going on in the world.”
Mills said planting the vineyard from the ground up was “very fulfilling.”
“I never would have thought that I would be so farmer-ish that I don’t mind the bugs, I don’t mind the bees, there’s snakes up there and none of that bothers me,” she said. “I tend to adjust to it all. It’s a wonderful thing. I’m so grateful that I have it.”
What Advice Donna Mills Gives About Aging and Career
Mills also told Woman’s World about the advice she would give to her younger self.
“I think of my daughter, Chloe and what I’d say to her. I would probably say don’t stress about making it,” she said. “If you are doing everything that you can do to get there, you will. But if you stress about it, it doesn’t help you. So I wouldn’t have stressed about it all in my younger career.”
“I was lucky in that I got some really good breaks, but it’s not that I never thought I would ever work again or ever get a job … there were those periods. I got some good advice years ago from a family member and it was never give up, keep trying and do things well.”
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