Jamie Lee Curtis went shirtless to pose for AARP The Magazine.
Curtis is shown sporting gray hair and wading in water up to her chest on the cover of the magazine’s May/June issue, which will be available Monday.
The star of “True Lies,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and other films becomes eligible for membership in AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and over, when she celebrates her birthday Nov. 22.
“I want to be older,” she tells the magazine. “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then.”
Curtis, who is married to Christopher Guest and the mother of two children, says she reached a turning point two years ago when a tabloid published a photo of her and gave her weight as 161 pounds.
“I was like, ‘How dare you — I’m not 161 pounds!’ I was indignant. I got home and I went on a scale and I was 161 pounds. I was in denial about it,” she says.
“So I started a really healthy way of eating, just avoiding things that I had been shoving in my mouth. Over the course of a year, I dropped about 20 pounds,” Curtis says.
“Now, I get up at (5 a.m.) every day, filled with energy. I play tennis three times a week, and I do yoga.”
Curtis says growing older means paring down to an essential version of yourself.
“I’ve let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation. I own one pair of blue jeans. I’ve given away all my jewelry, because I don’t wear it,” she says.
— MSNBC
To celebrate her 50th birthday, Jamie Lee Curtis doffed her swim suit in favor of her birthday suit — at least partially.
The cover of the new issue of AARP The Magazine shows Curtis topless in a swimming pool.
“If I can challenge the old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated,” Curtis said in an interview for the magazine’s May/June issue.
This isn’t the first time Curtis has “dared to bare” to challenge Hollywood’s definition of beauty. In 2002, Curtis posed for More magazine in her underwear and bra, sans makeup, stylists and flattering camera angles or lenses.
The resulting photos showed Curtis as more middle-aged mom than glamour queen — complete with a sagging belly and chunky thighs.
This from the woman known for her bodacious body and starring roles in high-profile movies like “Trading Places,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and “Halloween.”
“Much of the shoot was Jamie’s idea — she was very involved in the creative concept,” AARP The Magazine deputy editor Nancy Graham said. “It is certainly groundbreaking for us, and for women of this age. We’re thrilled to have such a Hollywood icon embrace her age and show everyone it’s OK to be comfortable in your own skin.”
Whether everyone will get the message is another story.
— ABC News
Notes: AARP stands for American Association of Retired Persons.
John…
Had you heard that the AARP is into Social Networking now. Seems myspace and facebook were targeted for twenty somethings, so now us seniors can get out there and chat with the best of them….