Renée Zellweger’s thoughts on anti-ageing are ones we all need to hear
Renée Zellweger is fully embracing her 50s and has a message to others about ageing unapologetically. “You’ve got to survive a lot to get to my age and I’ve earned my power and voice,” The Thing About Pam actress, 53, recently said in an interview with The Sunday Times. “As long as we buy into the whole idea that society is obsessed with youth, then we perpetuate it.”
As an older woman in the public eye – and one whose appearance has been collectively scrutinised by the media and public, Zellweger wants to challenge the default notion that youth should be placed on a pedestal.
She continued: "Like, who’s doing it? Who’s redefining 50 or 60 without having to say, ‘Hey, look at me with my clothes off and I still look almost as good as I did back then?’ I don’t want to be ‘almost what I was’. I want to be a thousand times better! We have to shift the paradigm. You really can’t do anything meaningful when you are worrying about whether you still look like you’re in your twenties. You just can’t.”
Products marketed as ‘anti-ageing’ are part of the problem, too, she says. “All those ads telling us we don’t need to look our real age if we just buy all their creams and their fixes and all that garbage they want to sell us? I’m like, what, you’re saying I’m not valuable anymore because I’m 53? Is that what you're saying?” The Bridget Jones star rightly points out: “There’s a big difference between being your absolute best, most vibrant self and wanting to be what you're not. To be vibrant and beautiful you must embrace your age, otherwise you are living apologetically and to me that’s not beautiful at all.”
Indeed, ‘anti-ageing’ feels like ‘anti-living’. There should be no apologies for either.
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