Andie MacDowell has said she does not want to suffer to fit into a designer dress.
The Four Weddings And A Funeral actress told People this week that she is through with dieting to lose those extra 5lbs for a sizzling red carpet look.
She would rather feel comfortable: ‘I did a fitting and the dress was really tight around my waist,’ the 66-year-old star told People magazine.
‘It looks so good, but I woke up and I just knew it was not the right thing for me to do. I wanted to wear something that was comfortable.’
The mother to Margaret Qualley added, ‘And, of course, immediately I shamed myself for not being able to fit into this dress. But that’s Hollywood.
‘It’s this expectation, like you see in daughter’s movie The Substance, to be something that you can no longer be and that was easier at a certain time in your life, but I can’t.’
Andie MacDowell has said she does not want to suffer to fit into a designer dress. The Four Weddings And A Funeral actress told People this week that she is through with dieting to lose those extra 5lbs for a sizzling red carpet look. Seen November 21 in LA
In the 1980s she dieted to look her very best; seen on the cover of Cosmopolitan’s Beauty Guide in 1984/1985
She explained: ‘I’m too old to starve myself for five pounds, nonstop. I just can’t do it anymore.’
The Substance starred Demi Moore as an over-50 woman who is fired for looking older which causes her to take an experimental liquid to make her appear younger. It has dire consequences.
But the St Elmo’s Fire actress still remains passionate about make-up, revealing that she has a ‘very, very simple’ routine.
The actress – who has been a spokeswoman for L’Oréal since 1986 – said: ‘When I do my own make-up, it’s very, very simple – though I do like a smokey eye. I quite often do it with a little bit of purple because it brings out the green in my eyes.’
Andie is particularly fond of some L’Oréal Paris products. She shared: ‘I love an eyebrow pencil. L’Oréal Paris makes a wonderful eyebrow pencil. They have a new blush that’s a cream blush. I prefer a cream blush. Their mascara is fantastic.’
Her favorite feature is her curly hair because it has inspired people to wear their hair natural.
The Maid actress and former fashion model, 66, has been a spokeswoman for hair brand L’Oréal since 1986, and she has had many women come up to her to tell her that she made them feel confident enough to let their curls loose.
She told British Vogue in June: ‘I’m not ashamed to say—because I was thinking that could sound, you know [arrogant]—but because I know how many people I’ve helped by embracing my curly hair, it has to be my hair.
The classic beauty seen several years ago at a red carpet event
One of her biggest hits was with Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and A Funeral in 1994
‘I have people all the time come up to me and say, You helped me like my hair!
‘I think it’s not always the most popular. Mine’s very, very curly, but also kind of frizzy. I don’t mind—I like it and I helped women embrace theirs.
‘My hair is very curly, and it’s very fluffy, very curly and I like it! So if it helps other people say, Oh, okay, I like it, too, then I like mine too.
‘It’s interesting as a lot of women struggle with that. They don’t feel it’s pretty.
‘It’s fun to go and have your hair blown out for events but I would never do it in my everyday life. I look forward to washing my hair and just having it be its curly self and just letting it do whatever it wants.’
Meanwhile, Andie previously admitted she wants to be seen as a ‘debonair’ mature woman.
The actress, who has proudly sported her grey hair on red carpets, said it was unfair men get more glamorous terms than females to describe their looks as they age.
She told People last year: ‘I like all the terms we use for older men. I want to hold onto those terms. I want to be ‘debonair’.
‘Why not? What a beautiful term.’
‘It’s this expectation, like you see in my daughter’s movie The Substance, to be something that you can no longer be and that was easier at a certain time in your life, but I can’t.’ Her daughter Margaret seen in The Substance
The Substance starred Demi Moore as an over-50 woman who is fired for looking older which causes her to take an experimental liquid to make her appear younger. It has dire consequences. Margaret and Demi seen on November 17 in Hollywood
The Groundhog Day star – who has daughters Rainey Qualley, 35, actress Margaret Qualley, 29, and son Justin Qualley, 38, with her former model husband Paul Qualley, 65 – added society has been ‘brainwashed’ into thinking men age like a fine wine while women don’t.
She said it is a ‘psychological thing that we’ve bought into because we’ve been fed it for so long’, adding females ‘don’t allow ourselves to feel good about ourselves and we even perceive (mature men) as sexy, because we’ve been taught this.’
Andie stopped coloring her hair dark during lockdown and insisted her career is flourishing as she ‘dove into’ being an ‘older woman’ and ‘accepted it’.
She said about showing off her natural grey hair colour: ‘I am happier. I really like it… I love being an older woman. I really enjoy it. And it doesn’t feel less sexy.’
