Macy Gray loves being in her forties

The I Try hitmaker Macy Gray , 42, says she feels more confident now she has left her thirties.

“For a minute I had a problem with it but my mum told me you get to a certain age where all that small, petty stuff goes away,” she said. “My 30s were awful.

“It’s like the in-between where you’re not 20-something any more, so you’re struggling.

“In your forties you just get more settled and you don’t trip on the stuff you used to trip on. It’s kind of like a ‘f*** you’ age – a take-me-or-leave-me age.”