10 Celebrities You Won't Believe Are Turning 50 in 2014

Being within Generation X makes getting older some kind of choose your own adventure situation. How will you age? Will you embrace it, conquer it, surrender to it, deny it? The members at the the front of the spectrum of Gen X are crossing a big threshold this year: They are turning fifty. That's right. You heard me. Gen-Xers born in 1964 are turning FIFTY this year. I am absolutely the person who can't keep it to herself when she is shocked over a person's age. Usually this happens when someone I am talking to mentions having a kid in college or a grandchild and I do a double-take. Sometimes I am incredibly rude and blurt out, "Wait, how old are you?" I assume everyone I interact with is my age. And when it comes to "my age" I keep thinking I am 33 despite the fact that I just turned 38 on Christmas Eve. I am always surprised to find out someone is older than I am, but the surprise is entirely awe and reverence. It is the realization that I am an 8th grader on the school bus and a cool high school kid is TALKING TO ME. When it comes to celebrities I follow the same sort of age blindness. Everyone is in their 30s, right? Except last year Coolio turned 50 and that apparently really shocked me. It just seems impossible that so many Gen X icons are turning 50 in 2014. And yet, here they go… -By Dresden Shumaker

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