Actress Ali MacGraw will appear on Oprah’s OWN Network in an interview to air this Sunday. The Daily Mail has a preview clip in which MacGraw, 75, talks about her decision to let her hair go gray earlier this year. You can tell that it was a hard decision for her to make, but that she understands that it’s a superficial one. She explained that she lives in New Mexico now where women own it when they age but that she’s still subject to the “L.A. talk” where people ask about plastic surgery and Hollywood careers. It was very interesting to me. Here’s some of what she said:
“I woke up one day – I turned 75 on April Fools Day, as you know – and I suddenly thought, ‘Enough is enough’
“I’m sure there’s a million people out there that think I’m crazy – I felt some kind of change. It was subtle but it’s all about building up to, “Who are you?’
“My God, about time, wouldn’t you say, 75 years of practicing and starting to think it was a good idea? I thought I would try it.
“I live in Santa Fe where there are the most amazing looking “grown-up” women doing incredible things and looking like themselves.
“I thought, ‘I’m safe doing this here’ because I’m so intimidated in that old way.
“For example, walking down Rodeo Drive and somebody would say, ‘Wow, I know somebody you could really do your neck’ and ‘What are you doing now?’ You know, all that LA talk to define your worth-ness and I thought, ‘Screw it I’m just gonna see what it looks like.’
“It looked awful for a while but now I really love it.
I’ve been dyeing my hair for 15 years and I’m barely over forty. Gray hair runs in my family. My mom stopped dyeing her hair for the first time when she was right around my age. She said that she liked not being “tied to the bottle,” but she thought that it made her look old compared to other 40-somethings so she started dyeing it again. She didn’t go gray again until she was in her mid 60s and that’s when she felt like it was the right time for her. She told me that “There are a lot of people my age who are gray and with the right hairstyle it looks good.” So it sounds like my mom had similar reasoning to MacGraw, she saw other women rocking the gray and she decided to try it too. I’m biased of course but my mom looks amazing with gray hair.
MacGraw looks incredible and I do think the gray suits her better than the black. As for plastic surgery, she must have done a little something to look that fresh. In the video it looks like she uses a little Botox but she also looks natural. She’s a lovely woman.
In April of last year:
Here’s the video:
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