Andie MacDowell Refuses to Feel 'Shameful' About Aging in Empowering Message to Former Costar Drew Barrymore

Andie MacDowell is supporting her Hollywood sisters — and women astir nan world — pinch her outlook connected aging.

The actress, 67, appeared connected The Drew Barrymore Show connected Sept. 9 to stock her empowering return connected getting older during nan "50 F***-Its" segment.

"I emotion you Drew, convey you for doing this," began nan Groundhog Day star and mom of three. She past went connected to opportunity that she "never" would've expected her grandmother, whom she "revered," to succumb to nan unit of having a youthful appearance.

"That was not a conception that existed and this conception has demeaned america arsenic we age. It has now made america consciousness shameful," MacDowell told big Drew Barrymore. "I person 3 small grandchildren and I'm gonna beryllium a grandma for them and I'm going to look for illustration what I'm expected to look because I emotion myself and I don't person to look young and I emotion you for doing this."

Barrymore, who starred successful nan 1994 movie Bad Girls with MacDowell, was joined by Halle Berry, Valerie Bertinelli and Nate Burleson connected her show's panel, which besides discussed perimenopause and important lessons connected self-worth.

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MacDowell has agelong been vocal astir defying societal beauty standards for older women and has, successful fact, expressed her views connected aging by simply embracing her grey hair, a look that has now go synonymous pinch her connected and disconnected nan reddish carpet.

“I deliberation it's an individual choice," MacDowell told PEOPLE astatine L'Oréal Paris’ 2023 Women of Worth Celebration. "My 2 oldest sisters will colour their hairsbreadth forever. So, I deliberation everybody has to make their individual prime astir really they consciousness astir aging, what they want to do arsenic they age, and what makes them much comfortable.” 

"It makes maine laughter erstwhile personification says it makes maine look older," she told Katie Couric successful an question and reply shared connected nan journalist's YouTube page. "You cognize I'm [turning] 65, what do you think, I look 75 conscionable because I fto my hairsbreadth go?"

"But I don't care, I want to beryllium old," she continued. "I'm tired of trying to beryllium young. I don't want to beryllium young. I've been young. And to beryllium an older personification trying to beryllium young, what an effort. That's a batch of effort. I conscionable can't support up nan charade... I can't!"

Barrymore, who turned 50 this past February, has publically shared her outlook connected nan subject, saying successful a caller question and reply for AAPR The Magazine that she's "the happiest" she's ever been.

Likewise, Berry, 59, said successful her 2024 question and reply pinch Fortune Magazine that she believes climbing up successful property is simply a "privilege" and that women should consciousness for illustration nan "crowned jewels of our society."

Bertinelli, 65, has joked astir nan changes successful her quality pinch property pinch humor (“I’ve seen parts of my assemblage that are sagging that didn’t usage to sag,” she erstwhile wrote connected Instagram), while besides sharing specifications of her menopausal journey connected a past section of The Drew Barrymore Show. "I emotion being capable to talk astir it because things are happening to my body," she told PEOPLE astatine nan 2024 Food & Wine Classic event.

MacDowell presently stars successful Hallmark Channel's The Way Home, which is besides disposable to watercourse connected Hallmark+.