You are beautiful when you are a kind and loving person, when you listen to other people, when you feel comfortable in your own skin, when you’re confident, when you enjoy life, when you love the people that you have chosen to have in your life, all of that makes you beautiful. Mascara doesn’t make you beautiful. Being an authentic, kind, loving human being makes you beautiful, I think.
What makes me feel vital is to exercise a lot, to run, to do barre classes. It makes me feel vital to, you know, stay up that extra hour to help my kids with their homework. It makes me feel vital to jump on an airplane and go somewhere spontaneously. It makes me feel vital to write, and to act, and to be creative.
So I had an acting coach who said something that I’ll never forget. He said, “I’m 59, I’m gay, I’m 5’6″, I’m 165 pounds. And when I go on set I embody that, I don’t hide from it.” And I think about that a lot. So I am, you know, I’m 5-foot-6-inches, I’m 128 pounds, I’m 61 years old, I’m straight, I have two kids, I live in New York. And when I go to work, that’s who I am. It’s not something I hide from.
I am proud to be 61.