The Associated Press reports that Curtis, who defiantly stopped dyeing her hair several years ago to show off her silver, is wading in water up to her chest on the cover of the May/June issue. In a boost to the self-esteem of millions of baby boomers, Curtis tells the magazine, "I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then."
She tells an interesting story about her weight. Two years ago, a tabloid published a photo of her and listed her weight at 161 pounds. "I was like, 'How dare you--I'm not 161 pounds!' I was indignant. I got home and I went on a scale and I was 161 pounds. I was in denial about it," she tells AARP. "So I started a really healthy way of eating, just avoiding things that I had been shoving in my mouth. Over the course of a year, I dropped about 20 pounds. Now, I get up at (5 a.m.) every day, filled with energy. I play tennis three times a week, and I do yoga."
What does it mean to grow older? Curtis says it means paring down to find the essential version of yourself. "I've let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation. I own one pair of blue jeans. I've given away all my jewelry, because I don't wear it," she says. Married to Christopher Guest and the mother of two children, she says the one thing she wishes she could do over again is not work so much when her daughter was small. "I've been an inconsistent parent at times, and it's my greatest regret," she says.
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