How six Sexy 60s hold back the years

Plant diets to cold water plunges, a who’s who of stars reveal their tips to holding back the years.

They’re calling it a Demi-ssance – as Demi Moore wows audiences with her turn as an ageing actor searching for eternal youth, in new horror movie, The Substance.

When the film recently showed at Cannes, it received a 13-minute ovation and has earned her Oscar-buzz. Not bad for the 61-year-old former member of the Brat Pack.

Demi Moore attends the recent BRATS premiere during the 2024 Tribeca Festival in New York City. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images

But she’s not alone – Demi is just one of a growing band of age-defying stars who are 60 and sexy, hotter than ever. So, how are they doing it? In the case of de-ageing Demi, she has admitted to having had plastic surgery in the past, but says she doesn’t like the constant speculation over what she has had done.

“It feels like schoolyard name-calling a lot of the time. It hurts,” she previously told Elle magazine.

Here’s six sexy 60s stars and how they do it:

All-action: Tom Cruise, 61

Tom Cruise. Picture: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

He celebrates his 62nd birthday on July 3. Currently filming Mission Impossible 8, the all-action-man told Men’s Health he enjoys a range of activities to keep fit, including, “Sea-kayaking, caving, fencing, treadmill, weights, rock climbing, hiking, I jog … I do so many different activities.” It is also speculated he has a few tweakments to retain his boyish glow, but he hasn’t confirmed it.

Living for now: George Clooney, 63

George Clooney. Picture: Laurie Sparham/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

Another celeb living for now, is George Clooney. He’s the poster-boy for getting better with age and is still at the top of his game, starring in upcoming movie Wolfs, with Brad Pitt. He and wife Amal have seven-year-old twins. In regards to ageing, George says he’s making the most of what he calls ‘the good years’. “Amal and I have had these long conversations about my age … these are the good years, this next 20 or 25.’ I said, ‘Let’s make sure we’re living differently,” he told The Washington Post.

Cold-water: Courteney Cox, 60

Courtney Cox. Picture: Leon Bennett/Getty Images

She just hit her milestone birthday on June 15, so it was only right she celebrated with Friends. Jennifer Aniston posted on Instagram, “She’s funny like no other, stunning on the inside and out. Independent in the most gorgeous way, cares for everyone.” Courteney, who is reportedly returning in Scream 7, says her beauty secret is cold-water plunges. She also said using too much filler is “a slippery slope. People don’t realise things catch up with you and you don’t know that it’s gone too far,” she told Glamour magazine.

Clean living: Elle Macpherson, 60

Elle Macpherson. Picture: Gerald Matzka/Getty Images

It’s hard to believe, but even The Body has hit her 60s, as Elle Macpherson celebrated her big birthday in March. The Aussie model-turned-businesswoman created an wellness industry around her healthy habits, launching WelleCo and its famous green elixir. She eats a plant-based diet, doesn’t drink and enjoys cycling, swimming and hiking. “I don’t focus on ageing,” she told Body + Soul. “I think it’s more important to focus on the quality of the life that you’re living.”

Booze-free: Brad Pitt, 60

Brad Pitt. Picture: Presley Ann/Getty Images

Another actor in his 60th year is real-life Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt. He says he gets skincare tips from exes Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow, and even launched his own skincare brand Le Domaine and, ahem, probably some tweakments. As for his diet and fitness – amid the continued negative relationship with Angelina Jolie and his children, Pitt says he has given up alcohol, telling The New York Times in 2019, “I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges.”

Keeping it real: Lisa Kudrow, 60

Lisa Kudrow "Bina Kepp" in a scene from Table 19. 20th Century Fox films. © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved

Courteney Cox isn’t the only Friend to have hit her 60s – Lisa Kudrow turns 61 in July and looks absolutely fabulous. She has a positive approach to ageing, telling Vogue, “I just go, ‘Alright, so what? You’re older, that’s a good thing, why is that a bad thing?” She admitted she has a fear of injectables, so just, “slathers on the moisturiser”. It’s fitting then, that she stars in the new TV remake of Time Bandits, out next month.

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