# @thecut on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DML-sWdN0nE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32506841-thecut-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-17T00:00:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Cut (@thecut) — https://gondola.cc/thecut

## Caption

Just a few decades ago, 40 was a universal entry point to old age. It meant that most life milestones were behind you, and it was time to start slowing down. 

But the social context of turning 40, for most modern women, is much murkier than that. Everyone is still hustling and still in flux. Still running up that hill. As a result, the 40th-birthday girls’ trip has quietly become a reliable ritual of midlife: going away to celebrate how far you’ve come. For #TravelWeek, Ann Friedman reports on the shift. Read all about it at the link in bio.

Photo: Courtesy of HBO

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