Demi Moore’s age-defying looks have sparked a fierce debate about the ‘unfair’ beauty standards placed on older women.
The conversation began after the 62-year-old’s performance at the SFFilm Awards this week.
Before walking the red carpet, The Substance star’s glam team posted two photos of Moore with flawless hair and makeup.
Without a wrinkle on her flawless face, the actress looked decades younger than her actual age.
Journalist Paul Skallas posted the photos to
“Women used to be expected to look sexy in their 20s and 30s, but now the expectation is that they should stay sexy until they die,” he wrote.
“That’s a tough standard,” Skallas added.
The post, which has been viewed almost a million times on X so far, provoked strong reactions.
Demi Moore’s age-defying looks have sparked fierce debate about the ‘unfair’ beauty standards placed on older women
Journalist Paul Skallas posted the photos to
‘Money gives you the opportunity to stay warm. If you don’t spend $1,000 a month on your appearance, you’re getting older,” one person said.
‘And make no mistake: being hot, far beyond your youth, is not only time-consuming, but also expensive. It’s really unfair to expect women over 50 to compete with twenty-somethings in the dating market. No wonder people are depressed,” another added.
A third wrote: ‘Celebrities are extreme outliers off the charts. But everyone sees them 24/7, so they shape our perception of what is normal in a way that our ancestors never experienced.”
Another commented: ‘I’m calling it now. In ten years there will be a demand for natural aging and wrinkles. People will always pursue novelty until it ceases to be novel.”
While overtaking People magazine earlier this month, Moore revealed that “over the course of my entire life” she found it normal to “make judgments about myself.”
“I can look back and move on at 20, at 30 I discovered things that weren’t good enough,” she told the outlet. ‘My relationship with [aging] now there is much more of a joyful acceptance.’
“Of course there are things that make you say, ‘Oh, I wish that weren’t like that,’ but in terms of the whole, I see myself and the fullness of who I am, as opposed to just the external idea of who I am. ‘ the mother of three added.
Coming to terms with the inevitability of growing older isn’t the only emotional struggle Moore has faced; earlier this month she candidly revealed that she had developed an eating disorder during her successful career in Hollywood.
The conversation began after the 62-year-old’s performance at the SFFilm Awards this week
People debated online about Demi’s appearance and the strict beauty standards for older women
She told Elle Magazine about her “obsession” with “training” that took her “five years” after she was “humiliated” by producers who told her to “lose weight.”
Just a few weeks ago, she recalled the “embarrassing” moment and claimed one of her producers “pulled out” [her] aside” and told her she needed to lose weight “several times.”
“I internalized it,” she said of the exchange with the unnamed producer.
“It took me to a place of so much torture and harshness on myself, of really extreme behavior, and of attaching almost all the value of who I was to my body in some way.”
She explained that experiences were “just one thing” that fueled the “torment I put myself through when I was younger.”
Now the brunette beauty has healed that part of her life and is working on her insecurities — and she’s grateful to have a career in acting thanks to her comeback role in The Substance.