Jamie Lee Curtis is totally at ease at this point in her life.
The Oscar winner, who turned 65 last November and is out with a new children’s book called “Just One More Sleep,” said she is loving her age on TODAY Jan. 16.
“Sixty-five is a moment of reflection and excitement,” she told Hoda Kotb.
“So, for me, I feel more excited, more turned on creatively. I have a new book. I’m heading to go make a movie. I got to be in a TV show. I’m having a creative time.”
Curtis says she has come to a point where she sees her own personal evolution.
“I’m much less hard on myself,” she said. “I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is. You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean. And that’s a way then to grow into my old age.”
Hoda was awed by the notion of saying what you mean and meaning what you say without being mean about it, prompting her to ask Curtis when she became comfortable with that idea.
“Yesterday,” Curtis responded while laughing.
The “Halloween” star then said “it’s all about the future” when people have children, but that eventually changes.
“The present is very hard because they’re growing,” she said. “You’re thinking about new shoes, new clothes, dentists, schools, things. Everything is the future. And when you’re my age, that isn’t — you’re not thinking about the future because the future means you’re going to be dead,” she joked.
“I mean it. What it means is that you’re very much more in the present moment.”
She said she remains focused on the here and now.
“I’m here and I’m really happy to be. And that’s really what to me 65 has yielded,” she said.
Curtis is no stranger to voicing her take on aging.
“This word ‘anti-aging’ has to be…
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