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.
Photos credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages, Getty and via Instagram
She looks amazing – THAT is the face we should have seen on that dumb glasses commercial Celebitchy reported on a few weeks ago (where she was photoshopped into oblivion). OK, the pink sack dress needs to go, but everything else should stay 🙂
Both my thoughts exactly. This is what Sharon really looks like & she’s fabulous. Plus, I really like her artwork! I had no idea she painted.
Her face looks so good. Aging gracefully probably gets more compliments when it’s a gorgeous face to begin with but women are told to be scared of any little wrinkle and honestly the wrinkles add to Sharon’s beauty here.
She is so stunning. I love her overall attitude. I couldn’t be less interested in the male gaze. In fact, I wear a wedding ring as a man repellant and my condo is full of artificial pink flowers – another man repellant. I’m so over them in general. When you have been harassed, stared at, creeped out by men since you were a literal child you welcome the phase when it starts to die down. I walk around my town in a hoodie and knit cap, ponytail. I think from afar I look younger than I am – and here come the predators – far more many of them in south and up north I admit there are less of them which is nice, they get turned off real quick when they figure out they are talking to a grown ass woman who is here for none of their garbage.
Pretty Baby is a documentary about Brooke Shields life and it says so much about this predator culture and how this obsession with really young girls started. I recommend it. It sort of echoes everything Sharon says here. Men have framed it like you’re over 40 and not hot anymore but what it really is – they can’t control or manipulate us. We have different priorities (and they are not even top 5 on that list). Yeah I really recommend that documentary. When you get to the point in your life where you can take or leave men it’s awesome. It’s the key to happiness for me. Not having a man in my life has made life SO MUCH better. I’ve traveled to 6 continents and 19 countries with my kid. I have seen the sunset over Sri Lanka and gone on a food tour in Sorrento. I’ve taken a hot air balloon ride in Czech Republic and been on safari in Kenya. I had dinner in the middle of the desert in Morocco and been to the Maldives. I love my life. And there’s no man to sabotage me. Life is good. I’m never going back.
I saw some of Sharon Stone’s paintings on another website.
I found them to be mesmerizing and brilliant.
She is quite the talented painter.
Overall, she is keeps getting with age.
Overall, she keeps getting better with age.
A very wise woman told me once that generally, women have to phases: competitive and cooperating. The sooner that women learn to COOPERATE, the more that we can achieve/do. It’s what makes women leaders so effective. The competitive aspect: for a career/job, a partner, etc that occurs earlier in life shifts to the cooperative phase. Some women get the cooperative aspect much earlier, or somewhere along the way, and some women compete with each other for their entire lives.
Sharon Stone is a fantastic painter was not on my bingo card. I am wowed by what I saw, incredible.
Sharon stone is so insightful. She is so right about who men glaze at. Who they try their luck with. It has nothing to do with looks. It’s all about their mood at the time.
And Sharon has been a tireless campaigner in the fight against AIDS. Love her.
I LOVE HER.
Wow, Sharon Stone looks great and her artwork is amazing! Too many stories of Hollywood messing up lives that it’s refreshing when we hear about celebrities who carve out an identity for themselves beyond Hollywood.
She is right, but I wouldn’t value or judge a person based on their hotness, so good for her I guess? I do love that she is feeling empowered and smashing stereotypes of the Older Woman though.
She is right, but I wouldn’t value or judge a person based on their hotness, so good for her I guess? I do love that she is feeling empowered, exploring and enjoying life, and smashing stereotypes of the Older Woman more. She’s a fabulous artist! I would love to hear more of her songwriting too.