Just a few years after Andie MacDowell determined to embrace her grays, she’s nonetheless assured about her choice—and the whole lot 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 method of protesting the unrealistic strain for ladies, particularly, to remain youthful ceaselessly, she defined.
“If I have been coloring my hair, individuals 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 is not a notion that might be satisfying for me. I am comfy being seen as an getting old lady.”
MacDowell stated she first stopped dyeing her hair in the course of the pandemic—a choice initially impressed by her daughters. “You might see my roots, and [they] saved telling me that I regarded badass,” she informed Drew Barrymore again in 2021. “And the concept that I may 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 appear 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 stated. “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 largely girls 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 stated, noting that she, too, desires to be appreciated as she will get older—however not for what’s on the surface.
“I wish to be seen for all of the issues that perhaps a person is likely to be seen for: my strengths, my intelligence, my information, my expertise,” she informed SheKnows. And that’s partly why, she stated, she’s so keen about difficult these norms for ladies—and dedicated to rocking her grey hair, unapologetically: “We’ve been fed these unattainable photographs of girls…and we are able to by no means be pleased with ourselves as a result of we set the usual so excessive that we’ll by no means be comfortable.”
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