Naomi Watts.
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesNaomi Watts She details her struggles with her body image in her new book, recalling the moment she started “hiding” a certain part of her body.
“If you wear a bikini It's not a string bikini. “I'll 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 one of the trainers I worked with wrote about me in his book as ‘meaty.’ It got into my head!”
Watts appears to be referring to a 2008 book titled Star Quality: The Red Carpet Workout for the Celebrity Body of Your DreamsWritten by a celebrity trainer Rob Bar. His comments about Watts made headlines at the time of the book's release.
Meanwhile, Watts has spoken candidly about her menopause journey in her own book, I dare say itreleased on Tuesday, January 21. She writes in the book — part memoir and guide to aging — 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. “The great liberation for me is realizing that when it comes to how we look, as the saying goes, the people who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Watts joked about one problem she never had to see.
“I'm glad I don't have to see my 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 Writing about her exercise routine – Watts talked about starting to wear crop tops in her 50s.
“Our bodies are not as tight, injury-free, or unpadded as they were twenty or thirty years ago,” the actress explained in the book. “I've given birth and spent decades more in all weathers, and it shows.”
She shared that a friend nicknamed her belly Benjamin Button, in reference to Brad Pitt2008 movie The Strange Case of Benjamin Button Following the story of a man aging in reverse.
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“It's so wrinkled that it looks like a paper bag that's been rolled up and left wet on the side of the road,” Watts said. “However, I will now be wearing a crop top, which I would never have worn before I had the paper bag stomach.”
Watts told readers she's “proud” of her body.
“I will show it to the world if I want to,” she added. “At this age, we can exercise not just for vanity, but for joy and health, which seems more beneficial.”
I dare say it Out now.
