Demi Moore, 61, and Kelly Ripa, 53, Talk ‘Loose Skin’ and Aging in Raw Interview
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Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans star Demi Moore appeared on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast to discuss her latest work.
They also talked about aging and the “loose skin” that comes with it.
“I try never to turn around and look in the mirror—ever—if I’m naked,” Ripa said.
With the gain of life’s experience and wisdom inevitably comes the loss of skin elasticity—that’s just how aging works. And Demi Moore and Kelly Ripa opened up about their own “loose skin” woes in a candid chat on Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast.
It’s safe to say that both women are thriving, but Moore said the one thing she has a hard time accepting at 61 is time’s gravitational pull, if you will. “Skin is going, and having its own program,” she joked. “I have a friend who used to say, ‘Oh, this loose skin,’ and of course my arrogance was like, ‘Yeah….’ I had no connection to it. Now it’s hitting me of what she was talking about.”
Ripa, 53, related. “I try never to turn around and look in the mirror—ever—if I’m naked,” she said, to which Moore replied: “It’s so rude.”
Ripa continued: “I’m like, ‘Is that a dunked teabag?’”
That’s where Moore drew the line. “Your body is ridiculous,” she told the Live With Kelly and Mark co-host.
“You haven’t seen it naked,” Ripa quipped back.
“Okay, next time I come over, we’re gonna have naked time,” Moore joked, and they both burst into laughter.
In all seriousness, the loss of skin elasticity is a real and normal thing that happens with age, according to the National Library of Medicine. It’s the result of changes in connective tissue, which reduce the skin’s strength, and it’s more likely to happen in sun-exposed areas.
To end their chat, Moore reflected on the insignificance of past insecurities. “I think about all the things that I obsessed over when I was in my 20s and 30s, every flaw that I thought [I had],” she said. “Now I think, ‘God I’d love those to be my flaws.’”
Ripa agreed, however, she said she feels encouraged by today’s health and wellness knowledge that allows people to age gracefully, more so than ever. “Women in their 50s and 60s and 70s are now keeping themselves—thanks to diet, exercise, fitness routines, modern medicine—women are much younger, they look younger, they feel younger, they have the vitality of a much younger person,” she said.
“100%,” Moore agreed.
That’s not to say they have the invincibility of youth, though. “I mean, 20- and 30-year-olds are still beating the sh*t out of themselves,” Ripa joked. “Time hasn’t caught up with them yet.”
Must be nice!
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