Wednesday, April 16, 2008

a voice you never hear in hollywood...

finally someone who put into words how i feel!
she was on Oprah last week and i loved what she had to say.


With her natural grey hair and pared-down wardrobe, some may say Jamie Lee Curtis is glamming down—but she doesn't see it that way.

"I never represented glam," she says. "That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring. I find it to be the least interesting thing that a woman can pay attention to, is clothing. I'm so much more interested in what's going on in the world today and what we're thinking and how we're feeling. And so for me, I think glamming down is really diminishing what I'm talking about, which is really paring down the sort of detritus of my life."

Jamie says she is trying to portray a truthful image of herself, both in life and on the cover of AARP The Magazine. "I believe that life is hard," she says. "That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. Everything's easy—aging's easy, childrearing's easy, dressing's easy—everything's easy. And I think it's a real disservice to people because I think it feeds you something that's not true."

While Jamie says she finds nothing wrong with corrective surgery, she thinks cosmetic surgery is a shortcut that doesn't fix the problem—and she knows from experience. Jamie says she has had cosmetic surgery on her lower eyelids as well as liposuction. "The fraud is, it doesn't work. It doesn't work because there are complications, and I got them all. It doesn't work because you still look in the mirror and you see the fraud of what you were trying to do."

today i didn't make it to the gym bad!
margarita pizza whole one
green arugula salad
handful of pork rinds
4 oz. carne asada meat
1/2 cup mexican rice
60 ounces of water

1 comment:

Tri-Mom said...

Loved the quote. When my house is a mess, kids are screaming, dinner late, etc. I have this imaginary homemaker in my head that I see with her house immaculate, children quietly sitting at the table where there's a 5 course meal, and she's pleasantly smiling as she waits to welcome her husband home from work. The media does make it seem like life is easy. Glad at least one in Hollywood acknowledges it's not.