Just a few years after Andie MacDowell determined to embrace her grays, she’s nonetheless assured about her determination—and every 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 means of protesting the unrealistic strain for girls, particularly, to remain youthful endlessly, 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 is not one thing that I want. It is not a notion that will be satisfying for me. I am comfy being seen as an growing old lady.”
MacDowell stated she first stopped dyeing her hair in the course of the pandemic—a choice initially impressed by her daughters. “You can see my roots, and [they] stored telling me that I regarded badass,” she instructed 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 give the impression of being cool, however as a result of letting herself merely become older 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 principally 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, needs 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 possibly a person is perhaps seen for: my strengths, my intelligence, my data, my expertise,” she instructed SheKnows. And that’s partly why, she stated, she’s so captivated with difficult these norms for girls—and dedicated to rocking her grey hair, unapologetically: “We’ve been fed these unattainable pictures of ladies…and we will by no means be pleased with ourselves as a result of we set the usual so excessive that we’ll by no means be completely satisfied.”
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