Just like the rest of us, Jamie Lee Curtis is sick of the societal pressures put on women when it comes to getting older, and has announced she is “pro-aging.”
“I love it & I am here for it! The plastic surgery has gotten out of hand!” wrote one fan.
“Yes, she’s aging, and doing it beautifully. It happens to us all, and hers is a face that has character, warmth, and movement! She looks real …” added another.
In a recent interview at the Radically Reframing Aging Summit, the sixty-three-year-old shared with host Maria Shriver that she’s had enough of the phrase “anti-aging.”
“This word ‘anti-aging’ has to be struck,” she said.
“I am pro-aging. I want to age with intelligence, and grace, and dignity, and verve, and energy.”
“I don’t want to hide from it,” she added.
“I don’t want to hide from [my age] it as if it’s a bad thing,” Curtis highlighted.
“We’re all learning that people are on fire from it.”
“It’s an inside job!”
“We’re so confused on the outside, but the joy of being my age is an inside infrastructure.”
The summit turned aging on its head, describing it as “one of the greatest gifts in life.”
And was filled with guests, from celebrities to doctors, all giving their opinions on growing older.
During the interview, Curtis said: “I’m not denying what I look like, of course, I’ve seen what I look like.”
“I am trying to live in acceptance.”
“If I look in the mirror, it’s harder for me to be in acceptance.”
“I’m more critical. Whereas, if I just don’t look, I’m not so worried about it.”
Curtis was candid about her own struggles growing up.
She shared that she’s “been sucking my stomach in since I was 11.”
“[That’s] when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight.”
“I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality.”
“That was my goal.”
“I have never felt more free creatively and physically.”
Curtis also emphasized that worrying only takes away from the time she does have.
“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.”
What an inspirational woman!