Charlize Theron has done some thinking.
The offensively beautiful actress is 39 right now, which means she’ll be 40 at her next birthday. This normal passage of time has forced Theron to think about what it means to be alive and what it means to be beautiful. To start with, she is both alive and very, very beautiful. So you know – EXPERT.
She said these things to a journalist who works for a magazine we’ve never heard of before in our lives, called Women’s Wear Daily:
“It’s ironic that we’ve built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f****** 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.”
Being nearly 40 has prompted the Snow White actress / Serious Girlfriend of Sean Penn to say some other sensible thoughts out loud. Here are some on the topics of kids, pride, and authenticity:
“As far as creativity, it really didn’t change me other than I want my son, of course, you want your son, your children, to be proud of you. There’s definitely an element of that. But I also know that that pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody’s actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son. I want him to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, ‘My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live.’”
Good thinking, Theron. You did some solid thought-making.
Here she is, doing other things with her beautiful face.
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What she said about wanting her son (or children) to see their mum as an authentic person, with their own important, separate life is one of the reasons I do not want to be a SAHM.
I absolutely respect another woman's choice to be a STAHM, but for me it held so much value that my mum worked and had a visible life outside being a mother, with other very clear interests and achievements. She was (and is) a wonderful, kind, dedicated, perfect mum - that was never compromised by her work. But my sisters and I always knew we could take on the world, achieve anything we wanted in any career, live anywhere we wanted and so on, because we'd seen her do it. We had that role model.
I think working mums get so much slack, and get treated like they are not taking being a mother seriously, or like they are less dedicated to their kids. But I think there is huge value in being a working mother.
I am over 40 and single, I still look reasonable however I doubt I look anywhere as good as these celebs considering they have probably most had plastic surgery/Botox/well made up etc. so it's great that we are saying these good things about life after 40, but the fact that Charlize does look great and the article constantly mentions her beauty is a double edged sword for me, because it's saying that you can be beautiful after 40 (at least if you are a celeb) but it's also emphasising how important it is to be beautiful, and that I find depressing, I know it's just human nature to be attracted to good looks but these articles just reinforce to me how fairly worthless we women are perceived to be if we do look our age and aren't so beautiful, if I was married I wouldn't be so hung up on this as I would figure that my husband would now love me for my personality, but I just feel that to attract someone you have to be reasonably nice liking and that depresses me when each year my looks (along with Charlize's) will deteriorate. I would live to hear some men say that their are women that they find attractive who aren't young and beautiful, this would give me some confidence that my personality and not my looks would be important in finding someone