Sharon Stone
THE BASIC INSTINCT ACTRESS IS RELIEVED TO FINALLY PUT HER SEX SYMBOL DAYS BEHIND HER
At 62, the star opens up about her exciting new role and outlook on life.
Almost 30 years after Basic
Instinct made her a phenomenon, there are some who still think of Sharon Stone as a mere bombshell. “People still want to see my boobs,” she says with a laugh. “I’m 62! It’s like, ‘Really? Grow up!’ ”
Since reaching her 60s, Sharon’s found satisfying work as a character actress — she’s a scene-stealer as an eccentric heiress in the new Netflix horror series
Ratched. She’s also found a private peace that revolves around the three most important men in her life: sons Roan, 20, Laird, 15, and Quinn, 14. Dating is not a priority. “It’s like a comedy,” says Sharon, who was kicked off the Bumble dating app last year because no one believed it was really her. “I wish I’d stayed kicked off it!” she says.
A FRESH PERSPECTIVE
The still gorgeous actress is long past fretting about getting older. “I think you have to choose how you want to age,” Sharon says. “I’m sure that I have my own destiny, and I’m now trying to meet it with as much integrity as I can, and be as open to growth as I can be.” She’s grateful just to be able to grow older. In 2001, Sharon nearly died after a massive brain hemorrhage.
“These are life-changing events,” she hang on to the life you had before.”
Ditching the sex symbol label has been part of that. “It’s very hard to shake,” admits Sharon. “Marilyn Monroe did movies that really mattered like Bus Stop [but] everybody expects you to be that all the time .... I mean, I never thought I was that sexy!”