{"id":369,"date":"2010-01-18T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-03-26T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:46:58","slug":"sigourney-weaver-loves-her-wrinkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Loves Her Wrinkles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sigourney Weaver at 60, still gorgeous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise that when I come across any bit of news regarding someone, anyone, who accepts their wrinkles, I am intrigued. I admit that I need to hear it from others in order to help me accept my own sagging self. Such was the case when I heard 60-year-old\u00a0Sigourney Weaver discussing the whole question of beauty and aging. The photo below reveals a very beautiful woman—and yes, there are lines in plain sight but I still find her to be exquisitely good looking. Sadly, when she was growing up her mother once told here that she was not beautiful, but that’s a whole other article for another time perhaps. Let’s stick to what she had to say about plastic surgery. \u201cI find that look scary and I like getting older. There\u2019s nothing more interesting to me than a woman in her 70s who\u2019s full of life and still useful. I never notice age in people\u2019s faces. I just look at the whole person,\u201d she said very candidly. I love Sigourney for her uncommon philosophy on aging, especially when taking into account that she is an actress, and there is a certain amount of pressure to look good. I\u2019m sure that life off the set does not reflect Hollywood glam, but when she\u2019s filming a movie, or making a public appearance, her looks will always be scrutinized, such is the nature of the business. And it’s not only pressure that comes from the film industry, it’s fans or anyone really who will make nasty remarks about a famous person’s looks and dissect every inch of their face. Some of the comments people leave behind in newspaper articles are terribly cruel.<\/p>\n

How many of us have watched the Oscars or some other award show and without thinking we’ve said something like, \u201cOh my God! She does not look good. She\u2019s so<\/em> old looking!\u201d We look at the stars, we expect them to look ageless, so it\u2019s not only the industry or their egos driving them to alter their looks—we too are guilty of contributing to that craziness. When we look in the mirror we see our own age, but when we look in a magazine we see smooth, young and thin, or we watch another award show and we see someone our age who looks ten times better. We feel unsettled, unattractive, and old as a result of this. It’s hard to remove those images from our mind when we are constantly reminded of how we should really<\/em> look like. Pop culture has its good points, but in terms of beauty and aging, it’s gone completely overboard. There was a time when actresses would get a little bit of work done, we’ve heard this about Marilyn Monroe and even Judy Garland said that the studios in her day disliked her nose. It’s naive to think that they did not get something done, but it was different, less of an obsession, and social media was not around to help turn every single fad into a complete obsession, something that everyone needs to get done.<\/p>\n

So when someone like Sigourney breaks free of those preconceived notions of aging and wrinkles, it’s refreshing and worth the read.<\/p>\n

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Sigourney as a teen, innocent and sweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sigourney Weaver at 60, still gorgeous. It\u2019s no surprise that when I come across any bit of news regarding someone, anyone, who accepts their wrinkles, I am intrigued. I admit that I need to hear it from others in order to help me accept my own sagging self. Such was the case when I heard … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrinkles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofawrinkle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}