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While many women in Hollywood have been discussing the topic of aging, letting their hair go gray, and menopause, nobody has been championing it as long as Jamie Lee Curtis. After turning 65, last November, the Halloween star is leaning into this season of life.
Curtis isn’t interested in slowing down, she considers herself a student of life who is passionate about exploring new adventures, including her new children’s book, Just One More Sleep. “Sixty-five is a moment of reflection and excitement,” she said on the Today Show on Tuesday. “So, for me, I feel more excited, more turned on creatively. I have a new book. I’m heading to go make a movie. I got to be in a TV show. I’m having a creative time.”
The Oscar winner shared that she’s “much less hard on myself” in her 60s than she was in her younger years. “I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like, and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is,” Curtis explained. “You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean. And that’s a way then to grow into my old age.” Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb loved her frankness but was wondering when she became OK with such brutal honesty. Curtis joked, “Yesterday.”
The point Curtis is trying to get across is that she’s living a much more present life — it’s all about the here and now. “When you’re my age, you’re not thinking about the future because the future means you’re going to be dead,” she laughed. “I mean it. What it means is that you’re very much more in the present moment.” While some might feel her idea is a bit morbid, Curtis dismissed that thought because she’s thriving. “I’m here and I’m really happy to be. And that’s really what to me 65 has yielded,” she said firmly.
Curtis has been railing against ageism and the societal beauty standards that are placed upon women for quite some time. She talked about the topic often during her Everything Everywhere All at Once press campaign where she played a character who was a “real” woman, not a Hollywood version of a woman. “I wanted to just be truthful to this woman,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things. Concealers. Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are. And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.”
It’s that authenticity that helped Curtis win an Oscar last year, and at 65, she’s not retiring anytime soon.
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