14 DAY TRIAL // Sharon Stone was never the one to shy away from a little controversy. Quite on the contrary, whenever she could, she actually courted it, inviting bad press to come along for simply speaking her mind. This time, it’s different though because the Hollywood star aims to create a stir by showing the world that 50 years old is not the obstacle many women see it to be, as the latest issue of Paris Match magazine can confirm.
Smack on the cover is Sharon Stone wearing nothing else but something that looks like a corset, hotpants and killer heels, all in black leather, and, surprisingly enough, no top. With her long and muscular legs at a distance, Stone is holding back her hair while smiling knowingly to the camera. There is a secret that lies beneath the smile and the piercing eyes, a secret that has allowed Sharon to remain one of the most beautiful and appreciated women in showbiz to this date.
And that secret consists in her attitude towards female beauty and her own body, as she reveals in the accompanying interview. “I’m 50 years old, so what!” Stone says every day of her life, but most loudly in the photo on the cover. “When I came into the studio, Alix Malka told me he wanted to reinvent me. He got clothes sent to me and I understood he saw me the way I am in reality, which many people I collaborate with don’t. In fashion magazines, everything is organized by age. This is what you’ve to wear when you’re 20, at 30, then at 40. I’ll never get into a mold, I won’t dress the way people want me to dress.” Stone explains for the magazine.
In order to make the best of her rebelliousness, the magazine and Malka envisioned the shoot as an homage brought to sculpture, where the beauty of the female body is to be found in the harmony with which it is made of bone, muscle and flesh, Stone further explains. Beauty rarely has anything to do with age, but rather with feeling good about how you look at certain stages in your life, Stone seems to say with her powerful example. If she refuses to “act 50” and she does it in a classy manner, then most certainly she’s younger than 50.
“Is there an age when you’re supposed to refrain yourself from doing some things, like showing your body? If someone is shocked by these photos, that’s a reflection on his own views on age and he could ask himself why he resigned himself. What these photos represent is nothing surprising to me, my life didn’t change at 50, I didn’t change. I don’t see where the provocation is. […] And who decided when life was supposed to begin or to stop? I don’t want to live depending on the way people see me.” Stone further explains.