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Naomi Watts.
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesNaomi Watts detailed her body image issues in her new book, recalling the moment she began to “hide” a specific part of her body.
“If I wear a bikini it’s not a string bikini. I make sure it’s high-waisted and covers my belly button,” Watts, 56, shares in her book I dare say it: Everything I wish I knew about menopause. “I also started hiding my thighs after a trainer I was working with wrote about me in his book as ‘fat’. It got into my head!”
Watts appears to be referring to a 2008 book of the title Star quality: Red carpet workouts for the celebrity body of your dreamswritten by a celebrity trainer Rob Parr. His comments about Watts made headlines at the time the book was published.
Meanwhile, Watts has spoken candidly about her menopause journey in her own book, I dare say itreleased on Tuesday, January 21. In the book — which is part memoir and part guide to aging — she wrote that “there are no universal rules” when it comes to what women wear.
“We should wear what we want, especially in middle age,” Watts said. “It was a great liberation for me to realize that when it comes to how we look, as they say, people who don’t mind don’t mind and those who care don’t.”
Watts joked about one problem area she may never see.
“I’m glad I don’t have to see my own elbows, so I’ll wear whatever sleeves I want, and if you need to look away, that’s your problem,” she wrote.
Elsewhere in the book — while write about your exercise routine — Watts talked about starting to wear crop tops in her 50s.
“Our bodies are not as toned, injury-free, or unlined as they were twenty or thirty years ago,” the actress explained in the book. “I gave birth and spent decades in all kinds of weather and it shows.”
She shared that her boyfriend nicknamed her stomach Benjamin Button in reference to Brad Pitt2008 movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows the story of a man who ages in reverse.
As these Hollywood celebrities show through their words, actions and online posts, the body-positivity movement has officially entered the mainstream. Well-known activists have used social media as a tool to spread more messages of self-love to their fans. Mindy Kaling caused a stir when she posted a series of photos of herself wearing a variety of two-piece (…)
“It’s so wrinkled it looks like a paper bag that’s been rolled up and left wet on the side of the road,” Watts said. “And yet I’m going to wear a crop top now, which I never would have done before I had a paper bag stomach.”
Watts told readers that she is “proud” of her body.
“If I want to, I’ll show it to the world,” she added. “At this age, we can exercise not only for vanity, but also for joy and health, which is much more beneficial.”
I dare say it it’s out now.
