Kate Middleton Birthday Advice: Reasons To Love Your 30s

Kate Middleton turns 30 today, and in honor of her birthday, we thought we'd celebrate all the reasons to love being done with your 20s. While Kate's last decade involved some significant personal milestones -- receiving her MA in Art History from St. Andrews and the royal wedding, to name a few -- we think her best years are ahead of her. From a stronger sense of self to a better sex drive, a better sense of what you want to do with your life and who your real friends are, there are many reasons to love your 30s.

If you're over 30, what do you love most about this new decade? What were you happiest to leave behind in your 20s? Tweet @HuffPostWomen with hashtag #Loving30 and we'll publish your responses.

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[Kaleidoscope1]

11:31 PM on 01/12/2012

Duh, because it is simply THE best decade in a woman's life.

[Son of Liberty 1765]

06:26 PM on 01/12/2012

Good riddance to 20's. I wish I could have skipped them and the mental craziness of women in their 20's who don;t become real adults until their bio clock starts ticking around 30.

[MountPanic]

09:38 AM on 01/10/2012

Sitting on top of the stolen wealth of an empire ought to make your 30s pretty cush.

[mass maritimer]

01:31 PM on 01/10/2012

The Americans had a hand taking a big chunk of that wealth post World War I.

If the Anglo-American Empire of the English speaking countries gave a toss about countries other than those with oil I wonder what a better world we might have had.

That said, we countries of the English Speaking Empire at least pretend to mean well.....

[MountPanic]

01:48 AM on 01/11/2012

1) The English language is not an Empire. Language, which is knowledge, is the opposite of Empire.

2) America English carries the standard for the English language now. It is the more vital, more alive branch of English.

3) Huh? I mean the English people well but the anachronistic pageantry of oppression just does not apply to the world of the future.

[parkstreaker]

08:23 AM on 01/10/2012

isn't it far past time we stopped calling her Kate Middleton? she married a prince which makes her princess. although she is formally HRH The Princess William, Duchess of Cambridge, we should all affectionately call her Princess Kate.

[MountPanic]

09:39 AM on 01/10/2012

And most of us are American, which makes her Kate Middleton.

[parkstreaker]

10:28 AM on 01/10/2012

no need to be rude. how many Americans refer to the late Princess of Wales as Diana Spencer?

[kiran1207]

12:56 AM on 01/10/2012

u will love your 30s becuz u r super rich and famous for marrying into an over rated dysfunctional racist family of thieves who stole from India and other countries. so enjoy your money and fame while others work hard for theirs.

[Kaleidoscope1]

11:32 PM on 01/12/2012

You certainly are not in your thirties, and if you are, sorry it is not working for you.

[jesusandme46]

09:14 PM on 01/09/2012

they have to much time to kill

[The Corporate Champion]

02:09 PM on 01/09/2012

"The press has already made much of monitoring Kate Middleton's weight loss"

Cue the women from the most obese nation on Earth to describe her as "unhealthy," and "suffering from an eating disorder."

[AnnieDubs]

01:22 PM on 01/09/2012

For me, the 30s are all about slowing down the mad dash of checking off my life's to-do list that I was obsessed about in my 20s. My thoughts on it: http://oneflewovertheplaypen.com/2011/12/30/catching-my-breath-and-counting-my-student-load-debt/