JOANNA'S EMOTIONAL JOURNEY: 'Now I Just Love Crying'

Notoriously even-keeled Joanna Gaines is embracing her feelings at age 45!

Audiences first bec a me en amored with Joanna Gaines a decade ago when Fixer Upper, the home-renovation show she starred on alongside husband Chip, began airing on HGTV. Aside from her farmhouse-chic style, the interior designer drew raves for her practical, levelheaded demeanor.

But recently, the Magnolia empress has experienced some fundamental shifts. “I feel like I’m going through a midlife crisis!” Joanna, 45, shared on the This Morning Walk podcast on Nov. 8. “I’m not super emotional — Chip is the emotional one — but I have turned into something he doesn’t understand now. He’s like, ‘You cry all the time,’ and I’m like, ‘I’m just making up for the 20 years that I have been unemotional!’”