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Carey Lowell
40 on Feb. 11

"I think in my '20s I thought that I knew everything," says the former model, who has a recurring role as a lawyer on the CBS show Big Apple. "Now I look back and I think, 'I was such a baby.' " Now living with Richard Gere, 51, her companion for the last six years, Lowell says she's keeping it simple. Her clothes are classic, her makeup sparse and though she boxes and does Pilates, her exercise routine often revolves around chasing her two children, 16-month-old Homer (with Gere), and Hannah, 11, her daughter with former husband Griffin Dunne, 46. Hannah also helps out in the style department. "Sometimes when I go out at night she will say, 'Wow. That looks good,' " notes Lowell. "Or she will say, 'That is what you are wearing?' " But despite the occasional critiques, says Lowell, " I feel really happy to have made it this far in my life and have the wonderful family that I have and see my sisters doing great as they age. Life is good."