Sharon Stone is f—ing fabulous. She moonlights as a songwriter, has started exhibiting original paintings, and speaks up about there being room for more brilliant actresses than Hollywood allows for. Plus I have to say, I simply adore her in the LensCrafters commercials. Last week she paid a visit to the Ladygang podcast where she proudly declared she thinks she’s hotter now at 65 than she’s ever been in her life. I’m inclined to agree. Not only that, she offered an accurate read on the power women have as we age. Sit back, uncross and then re-cross your legs (underwear not required), and have a listen to the wise words of Sharon Stone.
“I have just as many people who want to sleep with me now as I ever did,” the “Basic Instinct” star said Tuesday on the “Ladygang” podcast. “It’s just that there isn’t that thing when you walk in the room that every guy goes, ‘Ooooh.’ … Because you’re not as easy as you were when you were young. Because you’re much more discerning as you get older.”
Not lacking for confidence, Stone, 65, declared, “I think I’m hotter now more than I have ever been. I know that I am.”
Stone, who has launched a career as an artist, painted a deeper picture of her idea of romance.
She said when she sees people she’s attracted to, she ponders whether she’d like to hold hands with them, instead of whether she would “just want to have sex with them.”
“I’d like to have sex with seven people I saw on the way over here today,” she said to laughter.
The Golden Globe-winning “Casino” actor hinted that less attention didn’t necessarily mean less allure.
“It’s not because you’re not as hot,” she said. “It’s because you’re not as easy … you’re not as easy to get rid of and you’re not as easy to keep quiet.”
She continued, “You’re not as easy to dump afterward,” she continued. “You’re not as easy to be a sidepiece. … It’s not that you’re not as hot — you’re hot or hotter.”
Preach, Sharon! This isn’t the first time she’s had an incisive take on men — who could forget her comment that American women were stuck “in a hole in a barn with a bunch of hillbillies.” Still true, sadly. While Sharon says here that women aren’t as easily pushed around when they’re older, I don’t think she means that restrictively. You don’t have to wait until you’re older. I think it’s related to your sense of self, and we typically have more acceptance and ownership of that as we age. I’m turning 35 this week and now Sharon’s got me itching to hit 65 for that indomitable confidence! Though truthfully, I don’t think I was ever an “easy” young person. When I was in middle school, friends of mine reported a story back to me that they had been naming the “pretty girls” in our class. (Stimulating conversation, I know.) Someone mentioned my name, and the boys present said “Kismet? But… she’s so smart! And mature!” Charming. But did I weep? No. I thought “what a bunch of idiots” and went back to my light existentialism reading. I think Sharon would approve.
By the way, Sharon’s artwork is fantastic. (And that applies to the titles along with the paintings themselves. One piece, inspired by a friend being criticized for not losing baby weight, is called “It’s My Garden, Asshole.”) She says she took up painting again during the pandemic, after having been taught by her aunt as a kid. One unique difference between her childhood paintings and now is that since her 2001 stroke, Sharon says she sees color patterns on walls. In an interview with CNN she said “I had to take medication to stop it, but I don’t think it ever really went away, because I still see all this extra color everywhere.” Wow. That sounds like a perk, to me.
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