‘I just don’t give a shit!’: Family Ties teen queen Justine Bateman on the internet’s obsession with her ‘old’ face and why she ignored Hollywood beauty standards to embrace her wrinkles at 57
Family Ties star Justine Bateman has opened up about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles in a new interview.
The 57-year-old actress said 60 Minutes Australia ‘When you say “Is there beauty in aging?” Aren’t you really saying, “Do you think other people might find aging beautiful?” And like, I just don’t give a**t.
Speaking about women using Botox and fillers to prevent wrinkles, Justine said: ‘I feel sad for them. It saddens me that they are not just enjoying life.’
“It saddens me that they get distracted from the things they need to do in life, with this all-consuming idea that they have to fix their face before anything else happens,” she added.
Ignoring Beauty Standards: Family Ties star Justine Bateman, 57, opened up about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles in a new interview; (L) Pictured in 2021, (R) Pictured in a still from Family Ties circa 1989
She continued: “You can certainly look in the mirror and say, ‘Oh, if I just had a lower facelift, I’d get rid of this light-catching skin, and then I could have that operation where you go into the eyelid, or you know, remove a little of the skin and this that hangs now, on the eyelid, you can remove it.’
‘Sure, you can do all that, but even with that I just… I feel like it would erase not only all the authority I have now, but I also like to feel like I’m a different person now than I was when I was 20.
I like to look in the mirror and see that evidence.