Renee Zellweger Bashes Beauty Ads That Try To Sell "All That Garbage" To Women
Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger is speaking up against the beauty ads that are geared toward women. At 53 years old, she shares that she feels more confident and content in her body than ever before.
We're often led to believe that nothing is better than youth, but Renee Zellweger is singing a different tune. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, she talked about aging, the beauty industry, and what life is like in her 50s.
Renee Zellweger Bashes Beauty Ads That Try to Sell "All That Garbage" to Women
Renee said entering her 50s "felt like a whole new beginning without the nonsense." Now that she's 53 years old, she can "stop listening to all those voices in your head an all those expectations and projections people have of you." It's the perfect time to "become more authentically yourself."
"Like, good luck all you suckers out there because you've got to survive a lot to get to my age, and I've earned my power and voice," she added. She has no interest in trying to look like she did in her twenties. "I want to be a thousand times better!" she said.
"You really can't do anything meaningful when you are worrying about whether you still look like you're in your twenties. You just can't," she continued.
Renee also criticized the current beauty industry and how they continuously push anti-aging products onto women. "All those ads telling us we don't need to look our real age if we just buy all their creams and their fixes and all that garbage they want to sell us? I'm like, what, you're saying I'm not valuable anymore because I'm 53? Is that what you're saying?" she insisted.
"OK, so you want to look good? So go get your hair done or your skin fixed or have that day at the spa or whatever it is that makes you feel great," she said. "But let who you are and what you contribute and how you represent yourself at that age lead."
She took a break from acting in 2010 for about six years, but her latest project is "The Thing About Pam," a true crime limited series on NBC. She received some backlash for wearing a fat suit in the show, but Renee did her best to be "respectful and responsible" about it.
"There's always a limit to how much you can establish an authentic approximation without being distracting," she said.