Sonia Kruger on Confidence, Collagen and Aging on Your Own Terms

Thirty years on Australian television.

Hosting The Voice. Fronting Dancing With The Stars. Building her fitness platform, Strictly You, from the ground up.

Oh, and raising an 11-year-old daughter while doing all of it.

If anyone knows what it takes to keep showing up at full capacity, it's Sonia Kruger.

So when she sat down with our resident dietitian Millie on the Glow Talk podcast, we expected to talk beauty routines and wellness habits.

What we got was something far more interesting: an honest conversation about what it actually means to feel good as you get older, and why most of us are thinking about it the wrong way.

The Shift Worth Making

Here's the thing about the term anti-aging:

It's fighting a battle you can't win.

Sonia put it perfectly:

"Going forward, we want to look as good as we can for sure. But it's less about anti-aging and more about aging well."

That's an important distinction.

One approach focuses on resisting what's happening to your body.

The other focuses on supporting it, so the next decade feels as good as the last one. Or better.

And that's not just a mindset shift. It's a biological one too.

From your mid-20s, your body's collagen production begins declining by approximately 1% every year.

Collagen is the protein responsible for maintaining skin firmness and elasticity, supporting joint mobility, and keeping hair and nails strong. By your 40s and beyond, that cumulative loss becomes increasingly noticeable through fine lines, changes in skin texture, and the gradual loss of skin's natural bounce.

You can't stop that process.

But you can support your body's ability to keep up with it.

What Sonia Actually Reaches For

When Millie asked which Collagen Co product best matched her personality, Sonia didn't hesitate.

"It would probably be the Glow Shake chocolate flavour or the Sleepytime chocolate flavour. There's a theme here. It's anything with the chocolate flavour."

Millie agreed.

"The Glow Shake does it all. And I feel like that's very much you. You've got hosting, being a mum, Strictly You. Similar to the Glow Shake, you can do it all."

Sonia laughed.

"Covering all the bases. Yes."

The Collagen Glow Shake

The comparison isn't far off.

The Chocolate Collagen Glow Shake combines:

• 17,500mg of collagen peptides

• 29g of protein

• 25 vitamins and minerals

• MCT oil for sustained energy

• A low-sugar formulation

It's designed to fit around your life, not the other way around.

The collagen itself is hydrolysed, meaning it's broken down into smaller peptide chains that your body can efficiently absorb and utilise.

Once in your system, these peptides help stimulate fibroblasts, the cells responsible for collagen production within the skin.

Clinical studies have shown that consistent collagen supplementation can support improvements in skin hydration, elasticity and firmness from as little as eight weeks.

So yes, it's a great-tasting chocolate shake.

But it's also doing serious work beneath the surface.

Confidence Is Something You Build

One of the most refreshing things Sonia shared was her perspective on confidence.

"When you're younger, you're looking for approval, you're wanting to be liked. As we get a little bit older, we start to understand not everybody is going to like you. You can only control yourself and what you put out there."

She's also watched her industry evolve in real time.

Experienced women are fronting some of Australia's biggest television programs, and audiences aren't just accepting it. They're actively choosing it.

"The audience wants to trust that presenter. It's more about trust, really."

What we took from that is this:

Confidence isn't something you either have or don't have.

It's something you build.

Through experience.

Through self-awareness.

And through consistently showing up for your own health and wellbeing.

The way you feel in your body plays a role in that.

When your energy is strong, your skin feels healthy and you're sleeping well, you carry yourself differently.

That's not vanity.

That's simply what it feels like when your body is properly supported.

The Habit That Actually Sticks

Sonia is clear on one thing:

Aging well isn't about one dramatic intervention.

It's about the daily choices that compound over time.

"There is nothing better than aging well and being happy with yourself. And that is entirely in our own control. It's just how we attack it going forward."

For many women in our community, a daily collagen supplement has become one of those simple habits.

Not because it promises miracles.

But because consistency works.

The research supports it, and so do the thousands of women who have noticed meaningful changes in their skin, hair, nails, energy and overall wellbeing over time.

Start with the Glow Shake in the morning.

Commit to it for 8 to 12 weeks.

That's it.

If you want to take it a step further, add Collagen Dream at night.

Don't Sleep on the Night-Time Ritual

Sonia also mentioned the Sleepytime Chocolate flavour, now known as Collagen Dream, in the same breath as the Glow Shake.

Honestly, they work even better together.

Here's why.

Your body performs some of its most important repair work while you sleep.

Collagen synthesis.

Skin regeneration.

Muscle recovery.

Hormone regulation.

The challenge is that these processes are heavily dependent on sleep quality.

Collagen Dream is a warm collagen hot chocolate formulated with:

• Magnesium

• L-Theanine

• Valerian Root

• Chamomile

• Passionflower

Together, these ingredients help support relaxation and deeper, more restorative sleep, allowing your body to focus on recovery overnight.

One in the morning.

One at night.

Full 24-hour collagen support.

As Sonia says:

"Anything with the chocolate flavour."

Same, honestly.

Ready to Age Well on Your Own Terms?

Aging well isn't about chasing perfection.

It's about supporting your body consistently, feeling confident in your own skin, and creating simple rituals that help you show up as your best self every day.

Explore the Collagen Glow Shake and Collagen Dream, or take our quiz to find the right fit for your goals.