Charlize Theron is almost 40 and proud of it.
Charlize Theron is proud of being a 39-year-old actress and wants the whole world to know it. In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily, she went on to explain why she thinks women only get sexier with age.
“I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that,” Charlize said.
While Charlize is making older women everywhere want to throw up their hands in an all might fist-pump, she wasn’t so nice to the younger generation of women, particularly 20-year-olds.
“It’s ironic that we’ve built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f***ing concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below [their] belt and feeling hardships, to grow into [their] skin and feel confident within [themselves] and to feel the value of who [they] are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that’s such a beautiful thing.”
The Oscar winning mum says she isn’t worried about turning 40 next year, but isn’t happy with the way older women are portrayed in society.
“And that’s why I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go it’s like a dead flower. [She pulls a flower from a vase.] It’s like we wilt for some reason. And men are like fine wines the older they get, the better they get. It’s such a misconception, and it’s such a lost opportunity because that’s when I think women are really in the true moment of their sensuality. I can’t believe I almost killed that flower to make a point.”
Charlize has been dating fellow actor Sean Penn since earlier this year and has one son, Jackson, who she adopted in 2012.
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