Actress Justine Bateman revealed she doesn’t fear getting older anymore.
In an interview with the “Today” show on April 3, Bateman, 57, shared why the topic of aging has become so controversial.
“Well, I think it’s really about fear,” she told co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. “I think that everybody has a completion to this sentence: ‘I’m afraid if people think I look old then, therefore, ____,’ and for different people it’s different things.
Continuing, she said, “Some are afraid they’ll lose their job or never get a job or not get a mate or no one’s going to listen to them or whatever. My position is that fear existed before your face started changing. So it’s an opportunity to take care of that fear so it’s not leading you around by the nose and making you make other decisions that are not you, taking you off track.”
Bateman emphasized she doesn’t consider herself “an activist” for aging but that she is “just somebody who got myself on the other side of what that fear was” for herself.
She also stated she is just “sharing what worked” for her to help others “get free.”
In an interview with “60 Minutes Australia,” Bateman, who is the author of “Face: One Square Foot of Skin,” which was released in 2021, revealed her journey started after a Google search of her name autocompleted into “looks old” when she was only 42.
“When you say, ‘Is there beauty in aging?’ aren’t you really saying, ‘Do you think it’s possible for other people to find aging beautiful?’ And like, I just don’t give a s—,” she said.
She added, “Like, I think I look rad. I think my face represents who I am. I like it and so that’s basically the end of the road.”
