Jamie Lee Curtis has shared her thoughts on the idea of "anti-aging", and she's not for it.
Earlier this month, the Knives Out star, 63, joined Maria Shriver at the Radically Reframing Aging Summit, presented by Sounds True and Shriver Media, for an open and frank discussion about aging - and why we need to start embracing it.
“I am an advocate now for natural beauty because I do feel that there has been a genocide on natural beauty,” she explained, per The Independent. “This word ‘anti-aging’ has to be struck, because what the f*** is ‘anti-aging?’”
“I am pro-aging,” she added. “I want to age with intelligence and grace and dignity and verve and energy. I don’t want to hide from it.”
Elsewhere during the summit, the actress shared that she felt she had no “time to waste” and that she does everything she wants with “zero attachment.”
“I am 63 years old. My mother died at 76; my father died at 85. I have no effing time to waste,” she said. “My motto is: ‘If not now, when? And, if not me, who?’ And, that has unleashed me and freed me, and allowed me to do everything I’m doing with zero attachment.”
The Halloween star did acknowledge, though, that looking in the “mirror” can make it hard for her to “be in acceptance” of her appearance and body, so she “turns [her] back on it”.
“When I get out of the shower, I turn my back on the mirror,” she explained. “I don’t stare at my now 63-year-old body in the mirror, I turn my back at it…I’m trying to live in acceptance. And, if I look in the mirror, it’s harder for me to be in acceptance. I’m more critical.”
Curtis also shared that she has made some important changes in her life by “stripping away the unessential aspects” of it, including her “hair.”
“I could never figure out what to do with my effing hair. I couldn’t figure it out… so I finally figured it out - cut it off!” she said at the summit. “I have stripped away the things that are not essential to me. I’m not a fashion girl, so I wear basically black or navy blue.”
“I keep my hair short… so I can get done with the quotidian aspects of my life, so I am free to do the creative aspects of my life,” she continued.
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