Jamie Lee Curtis Rejects 'Anti-Aging': 'I Am Pro-Aging'

Sarah Kester
Jamie Lee Curtis
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There's one word Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't have in her vocabulary: anti-aging.

The Knives Out actress has made that adamantly clear by sharing many opposing thoughts about going under the knife over the years.

In a new candid interview, she shared her "pro-aging" stance, helping rally the troops to change beauty standards for women: "I don't want to hide from it."

Jamie Lee has stood by her statements, as evident by the radical words she shared at Radically Reframing Aging Summit.

Jamie Lee Curtis
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The summit, hosted by Maria Shriver, sought to show attendees that growing older is "one of the greatest gifts in life."

“This word 'anti-aging' has to be struck,” Jamie Lee said.

“I am pro-aging. I want to age with intelligence, and grace, and dignity, and verve, and energy. I don't want to hide from it," she added.

In a candid conversation with Shriver, Jamie Lee shared the ways she's learning to accept her 63-year-old body.

Jamie Lee Curtis
Giphy | The Academy Awards

This involves not looking into the mirror so much. “I’m not denying what I look like, of course I’ve seen what I look like," she said.

She continued on, saying that she's trying to "live in acceptance."

Jamie Lee Curtis
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"If I look in the mirror, it’s harder for me to be in acceptance. I’m more critical. Whereas, if I just don’t look, I’m not so worried about it.”

Emphasizing natural beauty is important to her, which is something she's been sharing on social media.

While promoting her new film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, she shared an image of herself in a white wig with a yellow turtle neck and red-framed glasses.

In the caption, she shared the instructions she gave for her character's look.

Jamie Lee Curtis
instagram | Jamie Lee Curtis

"I want there to be no concealing of anything," she wrote. "I've been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight."

Her goal was to "relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality."

Jamie Lee Curtis
Giphy | Golden Globes

Doing so was incredibly freeing for the star. "I have never felt more free creatively and physically." Love this for her!

Last month, she also shared a makeup-free selfie on Instagram, calling it a "gotcha' moment."

“Often the most unflattering image, we are often looking down, to remind us of our humility, humanity, and lack of hubris in this filtered world we all exist in on this platform,” Curtis captioned the pic.

As the daughter of two late movie stars, Curtis has seen what the pressures of Hollywood can do.

Jamie Lee Curtis and dog
instagram | Jamie Lee Curtis

"I'm the child of movie stars. I watched my parents get face lifts and neck lifts," Curtis said during an episode of 'People in the '90s' podcast.

"I watched their work diminish, I watched their fame not diminish," she continued.

Jamie Lee Curtis
Giphy | Film4

At the summit, Curtis shared how worrying only negatively affects the time she does have left.

"I am 63-years-old. My mother died at 76. My father died at 85. I have no effing time to waste,” she said.

Jamie Lee Curtis
instagram | Jamie Lee Curtis

“My motto is, ‘If not now, when? And, if not me, who?’ And, that has unleashed me and freed me, and allowed me to do everything I’m doing with zero attachment.”