A number of years after Andie MacDowell determined to embrace her grays, she’s nonetheless assured about her resolution—and every little thing it’s taught her whereas residing in a tradition so obsessive about youth.
In a SheKnows interview revealed Wednesday, the Maid actress, 65, opened up about ditching brown hair dye and embracing her iconic, silver curls. For MacDowell, it was an intentional approach of protesting the unrealistic stress for ladies, particularly, to remain youthful without end, she defined.
“If I have been coloring my hair, folks may understand me as being youthful,” the longtime brunette acknowledged. “I simply do not want that; it isn’t one thing that I want. It isn’t a notion that might be satisfying for me. I am comfy being seen as an growing old lady.”
MacDowell mentioned she first stopped dyeing her hair through the pandemic—a choice initially impressed by her daughters. “You possibly can see my roots, and [they] stored telling me that I seemed badass,” she informed Drew Barrymore again in 2021. “And the concept that I might look badass actually appealed to me. So, I went for it.”
Three years later, she nonetheless loves her salt-and-pepper strands: Not simply because they give the impression of being cool, however as a result of letting herself merely grow old has been liberating. “It made me a lot extra highly effective and a lot extra comfy,” she mentioned. “It made me really feel [like] me… I’m not attempting to be one thing that I’m not.”
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply she hasn’t struggled with cultural magnificence requirements, particularly when it’s principally ladies whose price is equated with their look. “Males have had so many privileges: going grey and being the ‘silver fox’ and being attractive as they age and having that attract and charisma,” MacDowell mentioned, noting that she, too, needs to be appreciated as she will get older—however not for what’s on the skin.
“I need to be seen for all of the issues that perhaps a person is perhaps seen for: my strengths, my intelligence, my data, my expertise,” she informed SheKnows. And that’s partly why, she mentioned, she’s so enthusiastic about difficult these norms for ladies—and dedicated to rocking her grey hair, unapologetically: “We’ve been fed these unattainable pictures of ladies…and we are able to by no means be proud of ourselves as a result of we set the usual so excessive that we’ll by no means be glad.”
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