Sharon Stone Has a Good Reason Why People Shouldn't Feel 'Embarrassed About Being Older'
When people hit certain milestone birthdays, they are often filled with dread. However, Sharon Stone is relishing in every year of life as she approaches her 66th birthday on March 10. She isn’t one to ignore a day of celebrations and cake for a very life-affirming reason.
“Yay. Two exact months until my birthday and I’ll be even older. Sixty-six,” she said with joyful enthusiasm in an interview with The Times earlier this month. “I like being alive and healthy. And I think that we should all be super-thrilled to make it.” Her positive attitude is contagious because every day of living is a gift. She added a somber note to the conversation, “I’ve witnessed any number of people not making it.”
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Stone has always been quite frank about her opinions, and aging is a topic she’s not backing down on. “I think that people who are embarrassed about being older are just stupid and ungrateful,” she stated. Well, that might feel like a jarring response to some fans, but remember, the Casino star had a stroke in 2001 that nearly took her life.
“I had a stroke in 2001, I had a 1% chance of survival, I had a nine-day brain bleed,” she told The Hollywood Reporter’s Raising Our Voices luncheon in 2023. “When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anybody because you know if something goes wrong with you, you’re out.” She admitted that her health setback, which took seven years to recover from, hurt her Hollywood career. “Something went wrong with me — I’ve been out for 20 years. I haven’t had jobs. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life,” Stone added.
The entertainment industry hasn’t taken a chance on Stone the way they did at the start of her career with movies like Basic Instinct. But, she’s still proven to be a pop-culture icon and very present in the Hollywood lexicon even without a box-office hit every year. So, Stone is very happy to reach her 66th birthday because there was a time in her life when she didn’t think she would get there. As she summed up in an AARP: The Magazine interview, “I frankly think aging is a great thing, and we’re lucky when we get to do it.”
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