Sharon Stone ‘locked herself in bathroom with wine’ to force herself into body positivity
‘I started to cry at the sight of my slightly aging body and face,’ recalls actor
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Your support makes all the difference.Sharon Stone has opened up about struggling with body image when she reached her forties.
Speaking to Vogue Germany, the American actor recalled one moment when she locked herself in the bathroom and refused to leave until she accepted the way she looked.
“Sometimes you feel strong and optimistic, and in other phases it may take more strength to deal with the past and the future,” Stone said of her changing relationship with body image.
“There was a point in my forties when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said: ‘I won’t get out until I can fully accept my body’.
“I started to cry at the sight of my slightly aging body and face in the magnifying mirror.”
Stone continued: “But you are not completely powerless and can slow down the process enormously if you pull yourself together, eat disciplined and exercise a lot.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Stone revealed she finds that dancing restores her confidence in moments of insecurity.
“I feel most alive when I dance,” she told the publication.
“Not just a little bit now and then. No, I dance at least three or four nights a week!”
Stone said that she finds dancing regularly keeps her in shape and gives her energy.
The 62-year-old actor also opened up about her dating life, having made headlines last year when Bumble blocked and then reinstated her profile because the app thought it was a fake.
“I am currently writing to someone who works for the aerospace program,” Stone revealed.
“I would never get to know someone like that.”
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