Melanie Griffith celebrated her 55th birthday only last month, but it seems she is not planning on growing old gracefully.

However, with legs likes hers – who could blame her for daring to bare.

Melanie Griffith put her never-ending pins in display in a tiny pair of black shorts earlier this week as she beat the heat in West Hollywood.

The Body Double star, who was running errands, was snapped getting out of her Bentley, greeting photographers with a broad smile.

Melanie Griffith celebrated her 55th birthday last month

Melanie Griffith teamed her look with a striped vest top, exposing a hint of her pink bra, and wore comfortable flat shoes for her outing.

She entered rehab in 2008 after admitting she struggled with a pill addiction.

Since then she has seen to be dedicated to turning her life around and regularly attending yoga classes has played a big part in this.

Melanie Griffith may not be working out just to keep herself energized, though – it’s also doing wonders for figure.

She might have usurped her own mother, Tippi Hedren, to become Queen of Hollywood a few decades ago but she might be about to get a taste of her own medicine.

Dakota, who is Melanie Griffith’s daughter from her short-lived first marriage to Don Johnson, has become hot property in Hollywood, having already starred in films including The Social Network and 21 Jump Street.

The Oscar nominated star is currently on her third marriage but has been struggling to keep up appearances in recent months.

After rumors that her marriage with her Spanish film star husband, Antonio Banderas, was on the rocks, Melanie Griffith tried to quash them the only way she knew how; by pleading with US gossip supremo Perez Hilton on Twitter.