Andie MacDowell Claps Again at Grey Hair Haters

• Andie MacDowell, 64, just lately sat down with Katie Couric for a strong dialog about growing older and embracing her grey hair.
• The actress opened up about growing older in Hollywood and the way her resolution to go grey has impacted her profession.
• “I wish to be outdated. I’m uninterested in attempting to be younger. I don’t wish to be younger. I’ve been younger.”

Andie MacDowell, 64, is a wearer of many hats — mannequin, actress and position mannequin for all issues growing older glamorously. The star has by no means been one to draw back from embracing her iconic grey curls, whether or not she’s strutting down the runway throughout Paris Trend Week or gorgeous on the crimson carpet on the Cannes Movie Competition. Most just lately, MacDowell sat down with Katie Couric to debate growing older, magnificence, going grey — and the way she’s achieved attempting to look younger.

The Maid actress has beforehand opened up about her silver strands, saying that going grey is “badass” and that she feels “extra actual and trustworthy” with grey hair. And whereas MacDowell totally embraces her age, she acknowledged the difficulties of getting older in a latest dialog with Couric. MacDowell famous how working in Hollywood is “a lot simpler in your 30s after which it will get more durable,” recalling an interview at a movie competition the place she was requested by a younger journalist, “How does it really feel to grow old and lose your magnificence?” after the star had turned 40. “It made me unhappy for her,” MacDowell instructed Couric, as a result of that younger lady was “going to be me sometime.”

The encounter made MacDowell cease and assume. “However there may be plenty of relevance and fact to the growing older face of a lady, and the growing older face of a person, and the way it impacts your profession — it does,” MacDowell continued, noting that there tends to be a time period the place “individuals don’t fairly know what to do with you.” However now, MacDowell says she is in a spot the place she is “so in” her “age,” noting that her grey “hair actually does assist that … persons are extra comfy, even males are extra comfy, now they know what to do with me.”

When requested about her resolution to go grey, MacDowell mentioned that it was “one thing I had wished younger, at a youthful age, I assumed that it will swimsuit me, I actually did,” she defined. “I assumed that the thought of a sort of salt and pepper would swimsuit me. I assumed it will look good on my face. And when it began rising out throughout COVID I noticed I used to be proper … It appears good on me.”

The 64 12 months outdated discovered that her silver strands introduced out a complete new approach to view magnificence. “Because it was rising out, my eyes popped, the colour of them seemed slightly totally different. I preferred the best way my pores and skin seemed higher,” MacDowell continued. “And there was a sense, it empowered me extra. I felt extra highly effective and I felt extra real and I felt extra myself.”

And whereas for probably the most half, MacDowell receives plenty of assist for her choices round growing older and sweetness, she nonetheless will get feedback about her grey hair making her “look older,” which she says makes her snigger. “How outdated do you assume I look? You recognize, I’m [going to] be 65. What do you assume I look 75 simply because I let my hair go grey?” she says whereas acknowledging the best way girls with “silver hair” are usually perceived. “I don’t care. I wish to be outdated. I’m uninterested in attempting to be younger. I don’t wish to be younger. I’ve been younger.”

Couric defined that “as we present extra pictures of ladies growing older, [and] older girls, it turns into extra normalized.” She then recommended MacDowell for being “somebody who individuals see as embracing the age she’s in, and loving the age she’s in, and taking advantage of the age she’s in.”

We couldn’t agree extra! MacDowell is an inspiration, and we will’t wait to see what the longer term holds for the icon.