Sarah Jessica Parker: Please Stop Saying Gray Hair Makes Me 'Brave'
23.06.2022 - 17:34
/ glamour.com
Allure readers have read a story all about them. "Oh wow! That's… what are they?" I explain that they are highlights woven in and around . Her description of this hair-color trend for which she is unwittingly a face is far less catchy: "I can't spend time getting base color every two weeks.
Can't do it. Nope. Too much."This choice, many have said, is not a reflection of laziness or indifference or a crazy work schedule.
It is bravery. Maybe you remember, last summer, when was photographed dining al fresco in Manhattan. She was bare-faced, hair scraped back, and the headlines blared: "Sarah Jessica Parker goes gray!" The images went viral.
"It became months and months of conversation about how brave I am for having gray hair," she recalls. "I was like, please please applaud someone else's courage on something!" Especially since, as Parker points out, she hadn't even stopped coloring her hair. Those herringbone highlights were just bleached out from the summer sun.But bravery seems to be a consistent theme for any woman bold enough to get older (a.k.a., not die).
Perhaps you saw the plastic surgeon's office scene in . Parker's character —Carrie Bradshaw (in case you have recently joined us from Mars)—accompanies her friend Anthony on a face-lift consultation. Carrie winds up accepting the plastic surgeon's offer to see a digital simulation of her own potential results.
"'Very brave, Sarah Jessica. You were so brave,'" she says of the feedback she got after that episode aired. The fictional doctor promised, "With the right work and the right touch, the last 15 years are gone."Staying in the fantasy world for a minute, I asked Parker what she would do if she could take away 15 years without a knife.