Today’s young starlets have nothing on Sharon Stone.
At 57-years old, the Oscar nominated actress, wonderfully opinionated and exciting, looks better than most women half her age.
With more than fifty films under her belt, countless TV performances and TV movies, she keeps us on our toes and we can’t wait to see what she does next.
Here are some quotes from her Harper’s Bazaar story:
Only recently has Stone begun to talk openly about her cerebral hemorrhage and its crushing impact on her life. As she recalls it, she felt unwell for three days before she went into the emergency room. It turned out she’d had a stroke, and she lost consciousness soon after being admitted. “When I came to, the doctor was leaning over me. I said, ‘Am I dying?’ And he said, ‘You’re bleeding into your brain.’ I said, ‘I should call my mom,’ and he said, ‘You’re right. You could lose the ability to speak soon.’”
The stroke and its aftermath transformed Stone in ways she’s still discovering:
“It took two years for my body just to absorb all the internal bleeding I had. It almost feels like my entire DNA changed. My brain isn’t sitting where it used to, my body type changed, and even my food allergies are different. I became more emotionally intelligent. I chose to work very hard to open up other parts of my mind. Now I’m stronger. And I can be abrasively direct. That scares people, but I think that’s not my problem. It’s like, I have brain damage; you’ll just have to deal with it.”
Stone on being comfortable in her skin while posing in the buff for Harper’s BAZAAR:
“I’m aware that my ass looks like a bag of flapjacks but I’m not trying to be the best-looking broad in the world. At a certain point you start asking yourself, ‘What really is sexy?’ It’s not just the elevation of your boobs. It’s being present and having fun and liking yourself enough to like the person that’s with you. If I believed that sexy was trying to be who I was when I did Basic Instinct, then we’d all be having a hard day today.”
On looking for a little improvement in her love life:
“I never get asked out. It’s so stupid. I don’t know what to do. I’ve been getting more brazen with flirting, but I don’t think men realize that I’m flirting. They just think, Oh, she’s fun!’” She turns to her longtime assistant and asks, “Do people even realize I’m straight? I think they have questions about it because I have so many lesbian friends right now.”