Sexy screen queen Jane Fonda opens up on sex, plastic surgery and ‘closing shop downstairs’
FROM Barbarella babe to ordinary old lady, one of the biggest sex symbols of the past 50 years, Jane Fonda may have shut up shop downstairs herself but says age should not slow a busy sex life — although you may need a little help.
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FROM Barbarella babe to ordinary old lady, one of the biggest sex symbols of the past 50 years, Jane Fonda may have shut up shop downstairs herself but says age should not slow a busy sex life — although you may need a little help.
“I certainly don’t want anybody to feel guilty if they’ve closed up shop. Nor should you feel, though, that just because you are of a certain age you have to stop being juicy,” the 80-year-old told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
“You know, get into life. I didn’t mean lubricating juicy, although that is part of it too, I guess. One thing about sex when you are older is you really have to understand your body, especially for men, you poor guys, you’ve got to do the pills and the shots and all of that stuff.”
The two-time Academy Award winner earlier this year revealed she had “closed up shop down there” and was no longer dating after breaking up with her partner of eight years, Richard Perry.
Fonda has been married three times, including to CNN founder Ted Turner and Roger Vadim, director of the 1968 skimpy sci-classic Barbarella, which made her a global sex symbol.
She is still in demand and was in Sydney this week spruiking her new movie Book Club. In 2015 she said plastic surgery had given her an extra 10 years in the business. But while her surgery used to be about the panelling outside, these days it’s about the engine.
“I am kind of like a jalopy, my hubcaps are falling off and they just put new ones on,” Fonda said.
“I look good for my age but pretty soon I am having this (left) hip replaced and I’ve already had this (right) one replaced and this thumb has been replaced.
“I have osteoarthritis. I couldn’t even hold a pencil. The thing is, you just don’t let that define you. I just feel so lucky to be alive at a time when if something goes wrong, they just put a new part,” she added. “So it turns out that if you live long enough and you’ve stayed healthy and you’ve stayed fit, 80 can be pretty great.”
Older women and sex are at the heart of Book Club, which is a romantic comedy also starring Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton, about a group of close friends reading the 50 Shades Of Grey books.
“I really wanted to work with Diane before it is all over,” Fonda said. “We’re breaking the rules I guess because we’re four old women. Usually you don’t make a movie with one, much less four, older women.
“When you are 80 years old and you are in this business where how you look, so much depends on how you look, you are not in charge of your own career, you are so dependent.”