In 1984, 12-year-old Alyssa Milano crashed into your living room as Samantha Micelli on Who’s the Boss?, trading punchlines with Tony Danza like a pro. Four decades later, in 2025, she’s still in the conversation. From sitcom kid to cultural voice, she didn’t fade out.
Milano didn’t coast on nostalgia. After Who’s the Boss? wrapped in 1992, she zigzagged through indie films, stirred things up as Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place, then locked in legacy status as Phoebe Halliwell on Charmed. Two generations grew up with her.
Now 53, Milano marked her birthday with an Instagram post that stopped the scroll. No styling. No polish. Just honesty. She wrote: “My annual birthday selfie. No filter. No makeup (except for my microbladed eyebrows and what’s left of my last Botox and filler session). This is what it’s like, 53 years old. Love you all.”
This openness isn’t new. In 2024, she shared another bare-faced post on Facebook. “This is 52,” she wrote. “No make up. No filters. Happiness. Sprinkle that sh*t everywhere.” She even waved at the critics. “If you can hate a stranger — I can love a stranger. So…I love you.”
Milano also speaks plainly about her body. When someone asked her beauty secret on TikTok, she answered with one word: “Botox!” No mystery. No pretending.
In September 2025, she went further. At 52, Milano removed her breast implants. Posting from a hospital gown, she explained why, tagging her surgeon, Dr. Tim Neavin. “Today I’m releasing those false narratives, the parts of me that were never actually parts of me,” she wrote. “I’m letting go of the body that was sexualized, that was abused, that I believed was necessary for me to be attractive; to be loved; to be successful; to be happy.” She added that she hoped this choice would free her daughter, Elizabella, from the same pressure.
She made one thing clear. This was her choice. Not a rulebook. “What is a false narrative for me may be the exact right thing for them,” she wrote, crediting Michelle Visage for helping normalize honest conversations around implants.
Off-screen, Milano runs businesses, launched her women’s sportswear line Touch in 2011, serves as the ACLU’s Artist Ambassador for Reproductive Freedom, and has been married to David Bugliari since 2009. They have two kids, Milo Thomas and Elizabella Dylan. Real life. Busy life.
In 2026, Alyssa Milano, 53, isn’t selling you a miracle fix. She’s telling you menopause helped her “come into my power,” and she hasn’t “had a panic attack in years.” Talking to AARP’s Movies for Grownups, the Charmed alum pushed back on getting women “back to normal.” “I don’t want to be restored to who I was. I want to continue to explore this person that I am now.” That idea drives BALANCE: A Perimenopause Journey on Amazon Prime, a doc executive produced by Milano and Jeannie Mai, directed by Sadhvi Siddhali Shree and Sadhvi Anubhuti.
Milano says doctors brushed her off with, “‘You just had a baby; go for a hike, take a yoga class.’ ” She pushed for HRT and felt “hormonally balanced in a way I never did before.” On Tuesday nights, she dances with her “mommy friends” after Broadway in Chicago. Community, sweat, rebellion together.
Hollywood often sells perfection. Alyssa Milano sells something harder. Reality. Wrinkles included. And she’s still beautiful.
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