Jamie Lee Curtis Wants Everyone to Stop Using the Word ‘Anti-Aging’

Jamie Lee Curtis is an icon for a lot of causes, one being her fierce advocacy towards the unattainable magnificence requirements that Hollywood (and society at massive) units for ladies. 

Most just lately, the 63-year-old actor joined Maria Shriver on the Radically Reframing Aging Summit for a candid dialogue in regards to the Halloween star’s views on ageing—and why it is a optimistic factor. “This phrase ‘anti-aging’ needs to be struck,” she mentioned. “I’m pro-aging. I wish to age with intelligence and style and dignity and verve and power.”

Earlier this month, Curtis revealed that she requested to point out her physique in its pure magnificence—no prosthetics, no shapewear, no filters—in her new film Every little thing In all places All at As soon as. She shared a photograph of herself in character to Instagram, writing, “On the planet, there’s an trade—a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar trade—about hiding issues. Concealers. Physique shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothes. Hair equipment. Hair merchandise. Every little thing to hide the truth of who we’re. And my instruction to everyone was: I need there to be no concealing of something.”

She continued within the caption, ““I have been sucking my abdomen in since I used to be 11, whenever you begin being acutely aware of boys and our bodies, and the denims are supertight. I very particularly determined to relinquish and launch each muscle I had that I used to clench to cover the truth. That was my aim. I’ve by no means felt extra free creatively and bodily.” 

The actor additionally just lately shared on social media a makeup-free selfie and in contrast herself to her tough-as-nails Halloween character, Laurie Strode. “Has anybody else opened their telephone and one way or the other are confronted with a picture of themselves that is a ‘gotcha’ second,” she wrote within the caption.