"I don't want to hide [from my age] as if it were a bad thing," claims Jamie Lee Curtis.
The 63-year-old actress promoted her message of self-acceptance in a videoconference interview with American journalist Maria Shriver.
During this digital summit bringing together celebrities, but also doctors and writers around new ways of talking about aging, the
Halloween
star decreed that the word “anti-aging” should be “erased” from current vocabulary.
I want to age with intelligence, grace, dignity, verve and energy.
Jamie Lee Curtis
On the contrary, Jamie Lee Curtis wants to advocate an enthusiastic discourse on the fact of aging: “I am pro-ageing.
I want to age with intelligence, grace, dignity, verve and energy,” she says.
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However, the actress did not hide from her persistent worries: "When I get out of the shower, (…) I don't look at my now 63-year-old body in the mirror, I turn my back on it" , she says.
"I don't deny what I look like.
I try to live with acceptance.
And, if I look in the mirror, it's harder for me to accept myself.
I am more critical.
Whereas if I'm not watching, I'm not that worried about it."
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Back to natural
Jamie Lee Curtis has also been a self-proclaimed 'champion of natural beauty', saying that society has destroyed this notion in part because of filters and retouching apps: "What worries me is that we have a generation of young people who believe they have to change their appearance to post anything, anywhere.
It then becomes a reference and we will never be able to look like natural women again,” she continues.
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In return, the actress shared a no-makeup selfie on her Instagram account last month, telling her followers that she found this angle of the smartphone's front camera "unflattering": "We often look down, to remind us of our humility, our humanity and our lack of pride in this filtered world in which we all exist on this platform”, she wrote in the caption of her publication.