At 51, Sofia Vergara Opens Up About Aging and ‘All-White Hair’
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Sofia Vergara shared her thoughts on aging, going gray, and potentially having “all-white” hair.
“I don’t want to feel like old-fashioned [with] short hair,” she added.
That said, she is excited to be a grandmother.
We’ve heard from plenty of celebrities about aging and going gray. Some choose to embrace the change as early as possible, opting for the transitional, salt-and-pepper look, and some swear they’ll dye their locks until death. At 51, Sofia Vergara is leaning more toward the latter. For People’s 2024 Beautiful Issue, she shared that she’s all about getting older—she just doesn’t know that she could ever go for “all-white hair.”
Introducing the topic, the magazine asked the Hot Pursuit star how she viewed people her age when she was younger. “I have to be honest with you, I thought it was old, like that’s it,” Vergara admitted. “And now I feel great. I know I don’t look the same. But I don’t think I am going to ever be the woman that has the courage to be, like, all-white hair.”
White hair or not, she can’t wait for her 32-year-old son, Manolo, to promote her to “Abuela,” she said: “I think I’ll be a fun grandmother.”
Vergara blames her hesitancy about going gray on her Colombian roots. “I think because I’m Latin, we always grow up thinking about looking good, doing your hair, your makeup. It’s something that makes you feel good,” she said. “I love beauty products. I love makeup, I love clothes. And I think now that I’m older, it’s great, because you know exactly what you like, what looks good on you, what doesn’t look good on you. I don’t do what is in fashion. I just do what feels good, makes me feel confident and beautiful.”
Even if she does get the wild urge to try something new, more times than not, it doesn’t happen. “I’m always scared. I always say, ‘Oh, I’m going to cut my hair.’ But then I end up not cutting it,” she explained. “In Latin America, I mean they used to tell you that once you hit 40, you’re not supposed to have this crazy long hair. So I’m always thinking like, ‘Is it time? Is it time to cut it?’ I don’t know, I don’t want to feel like old-fashioned [with] short hair.”
She may not be one to reach for the scissors, but in her five decades, Vergara’s tried just about every beauty “hack” there is, she admitted. That’s where she’s not afraid. “I’ve done it all. I mean, you tell me to put cement under your eye, you’re going to look younger, I’ll do it immediately,” she said. “It’s like I put coconut oil on my head. I put it on my feet. I’ve wrapped myself in plastic with Aquaphor up to the neck. I’ll do it. I don’t care. It’s not stupid.”
Even so, Vergara said she is learning to appreciate all aspects of aging. When asked what she liked most about getting older, she replied: “It’s all the knowledge. That’s all. I’ve never really cared that much about what people think. But now I really care less.”
Also, this stage of life has shifted her priorities a bit as she enters menopause, she explained. “I take sleeping seriously now. Before, I could survive on six hours, now I know that I don’t look good if I don’t sleep more,” she said. “If I have a photo shoot, I try to wake up a little bit earlier because you’re puffier, you need some more time. Our job as actors, it’s not like, put your glasses on, and go pick up your kid at school or go and sit in a desk. You have to be camera-ready and do your job. But it takes longer now that I’m older.”
Vergara is taking her own approach to aging, and that on its own is empowering.
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