Jamie Lee Curtis is an icon for many reasons, one being her fierce advocacy against the impossible beauty standards that Hollywood (and society at large) sets for women.
Most recently, the 63-year-old actor joined Maria Shriver at the Radically Reframing Aging Summit, presented by presented by Sounds True and Shriver Media, for a candid discussion about the Halloween star’s views on aging—and why it’s a positive thing. “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.”
Earlier this month, Curtis revealed that she asked to show her body in its natural beauty—no prosthetics, no shapewear, no filters—in her new movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. She shared a photo of herself in character to Instagram, writing, “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.”
She continued in the caption, “I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, 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.”
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The actor also recently shared on social media a makeup-free selfie and compared herself to her tough-as-nails Halloween character, Laurie Strode. “Has anyone else opened their phone and somehow are confronted with an image of themselves that’s a ‘gotcha’ moment,” she wrote in the caption.
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She continued, “Often the most unflattering image, we are often looking down, to remind us of our humility, humanity, and lack of hubris in this filtered world we all exist in on this platform. I was delighted on this Freaky Friday be confronted with my heroine, my true north, and the survivor of my story Laurie Strode. I miss the woman that gave her name, Debra Hill, and I honor her this day and all who are surviving threat, both internal and certainly external, in this crazy world.”
