Melissa Gilbert Looks Picture-Perfect at 58 Posing in Orange Floral Dress in Photo

Melissa Gilbert is the picture of a hospitable hostess. Waving at her Modern Prairie following from the bottom of a wooden staircase, she looks beautiful in a loose-fitting light orange and cream floral dress.

Modern Prairie, the lifestyle brand by Melissa Gilbert, posted an uplifting "virtual kit" alongside the sunny photo, which included "a marble in case someone says, 'you've lost all your marbles,'" and "A hug and a kiss to remind you that someone, somewhere cares about you!"⠀⠀⠀⠀

"This is the sweetest," a follower wrote. Another simply said, "Thank you ♥." An Instagram user currently going through what is "hopefully [a] small health trouble" commented, "Thank you!! I need a hug in this moment of my life."

Like Kathy Ireland, Brook Shields, and Camila Alves McConaughey, who created lifestyle brands or communities to suit their reality, Gilbert created a space where the "modern, mature woman" can get the tools to thrive in the next phase of their life.

The "Little House on the Prairie" star and her team curate products that are beautiful yet practical and "not so precious" that they can't be shared. She explained why one term is not welcome in the community:

"We are absolutely against the word anti-aging — because it doesn't happen. We are all aging. The question is how you're going to age.

Melissa Gilbert and Tim Busfield Are "the Best Kind of Nuts"

A month into the lockdown of 2020, Gilbert celebrated her seventh wedding anniversary with Tim Busfield. She wrote on social media that even with all the uncertainty in the pandemic:

"There never [has] been a moment that I have not felt safe because of the loving care of my amazing husband."

After getting married in 2013, the pair left Los Angeles for small-town living in Busfield's native Michigan but moved back to the city, Manhattan this time, five years later.

They found a country escape in Highland Lake, New York, a kind of place some people would think they were "nuts" to invest in, but Gilbert believes they are "the best kind of nuts," telling The New York Times:

"We're hopeful visionaries. We knew this house would shelter us well and serve us well."

The home they found in their price range, which was on the lower end, was filled with junk, peeling walls, and problems with mice, mold, and mildew.

The couple has fixed up the property not just to be habitable but comfortable for them and a few chickens. In Melissa Gilbert's opinion, the house will remain a "work in progress."

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