Sharon Stone is making the over-50 crowd look good. And better yet—she’s doing it without caving to the Hollywood pressures of plastic surgery. In a recent interview with Shape, the actress explained why she’s not obsessing about looking like a 20-something celeb:
“This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true,†she says. “I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.â€
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Well said! And for any haters who think sex stops after 40, Stone proves that there are some serious benefits to aging gracefully: “I think there’s a lot of sexuality and glamour and allure and mystery to being a woman that you just don’t have when you’re young.†And because this comes from a woman who posed in a bikini at 56, we’re going to go ahead and take her word for it.
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