Naomi Watts.
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesNaomi Watts in her new book, she described issues with her body image, recalling the moment she began to “hide” a certain part of her body.
“If I wear a bikini it’s not a string bikini. I’m going to make sure it’s high-waisted and covers my belly button,” Watts, 56, shares in her book I dare say: Everything I wish I knew about menopause. “I also started hiding my thighs after a trainer I was working with wrote about me in her book as ‘fat’. It got into my head!”
It seems that Watts was referring to the 2008 book Star quality: A red carpet workout for the celebrity body of your dreamsthe famous coach wrote Rob Parr. His comments about Watts made headlines at the time of the book’s release.
Watts, meanwhile, has been candid about her menopause journey in her book, Dare I Say Itpublished on Tuesday, January 21. In the book – which is part memoir and part aging guide – she wrote that “there are no universal rules” when it comes to what women wear.
“We should wear whatever we want, especially in middle age,” Watts said. “The great liberation for me was the realization that when it comes to our appearance, as the saying goes, people ‘who care don’t care, and those who care don’t care.'”
Watts joked about one problem area she never has 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 — Doc writing about his exercise routine — Watts talked about starting to wear crop tops in her 50s.
“Our bodies are not as toned, injury-free or line-free as they were twenty or thirty years ago,” the actress explained in the book. “I gave birth and spent decades in all weather conditions, and it shows.”
She shared that a friend nicknamed her belly Benjamin Button, referring to him Brad PittMovie from 2008 The curious case of Benjamin Button following the story of a man who ages backwards.
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“It’s so crumpled it looks like a paper bag that’s been folded up and left wet on the side of the road,” Watts said. “And yet, now I’m going to wear a cropped top, which I never would have done before I had a stomach like a paper bag.”
Watts told readers she was “proud” of her body.
“I’ll show it to the world if I want,” she added. “At this age we can exercise not only for vanity, but also for joy and health, which seems much more useful.”
Dare I Say It it’s out now.