Celebrities aging gracefully

Actress Anjelica Huston,61, who played Morticia in the Adam’s Family movies, hasn’t adjusted her aging process. “This great fear of laugh lines and wrinkles and getting old is really unnatural. It happens to the best of us – what are we going to do?” she said.

When singer Tina Turner turned 60 she was on a world tour! It just goes to show that the singer not only embraces her age, but embraces life. She says age is no issue to her. “I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way. We’re living in exciting times for women,” she said.

A month before her 72nd birthday, Sophia Loren was voted the world’s most naturally beautiful person. When asked about her secret for staying so naturally beautiful she said: “a love of life, spaghetti, and the odd bath in virgin olive oil.”

Sexy and single at 66, Susan Sarandon says she enjoys aging gracefully, but won’t judge others who don’t. “I haven’t yet had any plastic surgery, but I won’t knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It’s hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that’s huge. You can see every single line. But I think it’s an aesthetic choice for the individual,” she said.

Kim Catrall has admitted to having Botox, but says she is against plastic surgery. “I’m too terrified to get any proper work so I’ve had just little things done. I have a big crease between my eyebrows and I use Botox to get rid of that, but that’s kind of it,” she said. “I look at people such as Helen Mirren or Judi Dench, these amazing women who look great, but look their age.”

At 72 years-old Jane Fonda was aging gracefully until she admitted to having plastic surgery and she isn’t proud of it. “I caved,” she said in an interview with Larry King. “If I was really brave, I would have not. I vowed I wouldn’t – I did, and I don’t feel proud of it.” She is now writing a book about her aging process and her plastic surgery.

Sixty-four year old Bette Midler was quoted as saying “After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” And it seems she isn’t too fussed about that.

Beautiful model and actress Geena Davis, who is famous for her role in Thelma and Louise, still has that youthful adventurous look about her at 56.

Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger constantly maintains a youthful glow about her. Kim has never shared her secret of youthful looking skin, but she is rumoured to be a fan of collagen therapy gel, a cream which sits in fine lines and plumps them out.

Joan Collins has always maintained that she has not had cosmetic surgery. “Women who turn to cosmetic procedures look ghastly. They don’t look like themselves,” she said in an interview with Hello magazine. “I quite like the way I look, I’m quite happy with the way I look and I really don’t want to change it.” Read more here

Avatar star Sigourney Weaver is not a fan of Botox or cosmetic surgery. “I would never have plastic surgery or Botox injections,” she said. “How can you as an actress? They both leave you with such a tight, unreal look. “It’s something fans and audiences pick up on instantly. Actors’ faces should actually be able to move.”

Actress Jane Seymour has slammed cosmetic surgery, despite admitting to having some procedures. “When I see people on television and nothing is moving and their eyebrows are up near the corner of their head I think ‘How can they do this? They’re destroying their expression.” she said. “I’ve had some things done to my eyes because I had some mole things and genetically we’ve all had bags under our eyes in my family, so we removed the bags, but that’s it.”

The Devil wears Prada star Meryl Streep says she is all about gracefully aging. “To each his own. I really understand the chagrin that accompanies ageing, especially for a woman, but I think people look funny when they freeze their faces. In Los Angeles there’s a lot of that. I pick up on the part that doesn’t move on a face. I’m immediately drawn to it and that is the opposite of what you’re intending. You pull focus to the area that’s been worked on,” she said.

In a recent interview Sharon Stone opened up about her plastic surgery disaster which swore her off any further procedures. She also made comments about Meryl Streep saying: “Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Despite not desiring to go under the knife herself Helen Mirren doesn’t have a problem with those who do. “You go, ‘I don’t want to look at that face anymore,’ and I understand that, absolutely,” the actress said in a recent interview about plastic surgery. “I think people should be allowed to do whatever they want to make themselves feel happy.”

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis recently said Hollywood was experiencing a conspiracy when it comes to plastic surgery. “Everybody is saying that to get jobs you have to dye your hair and get injectables. It’s a conspiracy, a complete catastrophe, a surgical industrial complex. Somehow we are being fed this belief that to continue on we have to do this. Yet people are being disfigured. It’s shocking what people are doing to their faces.”