Demi Moore is down to embrace aging full throttle.
The Substance actress has become known for her long brunette hair over the past couple of decades in Hollywood, especially after having gone through so many hair transformations for films such as Ghost and G.I. Jane, so much so that she would have hard time letting it go.
“I have grown quite attached to my hair,” Demi told People in an interview for its World’s Most Beautiful issue published April 25. “From a certain point of having had no hair.”
“I don’t know, I feel fairly connected to my hair in a different kind of way,” she added of the prospect of chopping off her signature locks again. “There’s energy in hair, you know? But I never like to say never.”
But one change she would happily embrace? Gray hair, though only when it starts to come in in a more substantial way.
“Oh 100%. I look at women who have that incredible gray, especially long, and I think it’s striking,” the 62-year-old shared. “I would definitely do it.”
“I just don’t have enough to make it interesting,” Demi added. “Mine’s like a smattering that makes my hair look murky. I didn’t really start coloring my hair until I was, like, 55.”
The Oscar nominee admitted with a laugh that “it’s more than it used to be,” then pointed to one of her late family member’s as a potential source of inspiration as to what to do with her hair as she ages.
“My great grandmother on my mom’s side never had any gray,” Demi shared, “and she never cut her hair.”
This isn’t the only first time that the Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle actress has discussed her feelings about getting older. In fact, soon after discussing the physical aspects of aging, Demi reflected on what it means to progress in life.
“I also have thought recently about this idea that aging and being old are not the same thing,” she explained at the TIME100 Summit April 23, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And somehow we’ve confused that and that aging actually is a tremendous gift.”
“I would not trade—you could not pay me to be 21,” Demi added. “As good as it might sound, it was torture!”
Keep reading for more stars’ best quotes about aging in Hollywood…
Heidi Klum
“I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse; it’s just different. You change, and that’s okay. Life is about change,” she told Self.
Cameron Diaz
“There’s no such thing as anti-aging. We’re all aging, period. Women take it as something personal that they are getting older. They think that they failed somehow by not staying 25. This is crazy to me because my belief is that it’s a privilege to get older—not everybody gets to get older,” she told Access Hollywood.
Kate Beckinsale
“Historically when women have made strides of some type, culturally things rise up to oppress them. Right now I feel like we’ve made a lot of strides, but nobody’s allowed to age or look pregnant. I feel all of that stuff has gotten worse. It’s a brilliant way to keep people enslaved, by having them horrified by themselves. Well I refuse to feel shame about being human,” she told the Los Angeles Times.
Jennifer Lopez
“When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
Cindy Crawford
“I’m actually happier with my body now… because the body I have now is the body I’ve worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn’t enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else’s,” she told Popsugar.
Drew Barrymore
“Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart. If my breasts fall down to the floor and everything starts to sag, becoming hideous and gross, I won’t worry,” as she told Bustle.
Madonna
“F–k you. I’m 50. That’s what I’m going to say when I turn 50. Sorry,” as she told Popsugar.
Diane Keaton
“Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets,” as the told PopSugar.
Helen Mirren
“When you’re 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it’s fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it,” she told Bustle.
Jennifer Garner
Celine Dion
“There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty,” she told Ok! Magazine.
Penelope Cruz
Kate Winslet
“I’m baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves,” she told Net-a-Porter Magazine.
Oprah Winfrey
“People who lie about their age are denying the truth and contributing to a sickness pervading our society—the sickness of wanting to be what you’re not…. I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life,” she wrote in O Magazine.
Diane Von Furstenberg
“Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands…. In my older face, I see my life. Every wrinkle, every smile line, every age spot. There is a saying that with age, you look outside what you are inside. If you are someone who never smiles, your face gets saggy. If you’re a person who smiles a lot, you will have more smile lines. Your wrinkles reflect the roads you have taken; they form the map of your life. My face reflects the wind and sun and rain and dust from the trips I’ve taken. My face carries all my memories. Why should I erase them?” she told Vogue.
Reese Witherspoon
“But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You’re not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin,” she told Glamour.
