Sharon Stone Talks About Her Body at 61, Strips Down to Lace Underwear for 'Allure'

Sharon Stone is opening up about anti-aging for her new cover story for Allure‘s November 2019 issue, on newsstands October 29.

Here is what the 61-year-old actress had to share with the mag:

On her favorite age: “My 40s were so beautiful. I couldn’t work because women, once they got to be 40, were not given jobs in Hollywood. I was a mom with three beautiful little boys. I was recovering from a massive brain injury, and I was in custody court constantly over my oldest child. But there was something wonderful in that period of all those challenges. And even though no one wanted to date me — no one would want a woman that had little children — it was a period of reconciliation and change, and understanding myself. It was my period of the biggest change, but the period where I thought I was the most beautiful.”

On how she feels about her body now, at 61: “I like my body so much more…. I’m so grateful to my body. When I was younger, everybody was telling me what was wrong with my body — too this, too that. When I got on Basic Instinct, they hired a makeup artist that put on pounds of makeup every day, and every day I went to my trailer and took the makeup off. But I wasn’t allowed to choose my makeup artist, nor was my name [above the title] on the poster.”

On enjoying her fame: “I was very lucky. So many of the women who had been famous before me were so good to me. Faye [Dunaway] and Shirley MacLaine — they told me it won’t last forever, enjoy every minute of it.”

For more from Sharon, visit Allure.com!