‘I just don’t give a sh*t!’: Family Ties teen queen Justine Bateman on the internet’s obsession with her ‘old’ face and why she’s ignored Hollywood beauty standards to embrace her wrinkles at 57
Family Ties star Justine Bateman spoke about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles in a new interview.
Bateman, 57 – who’s the sister of actor Jason Bateman – was a sitcom star in the 1980s on Family Ties, and has been in the limelight since she was a teenager.
The actress told 60 Minutes Australia that she didn’t realize there was an obsession with her natural face until she Googled herself one day.
‘I googled my name Justine Bateman, and an autocomplete came up which said “looks old,” and I was like, “What!”‘
‘I looked at the pictures they had as evidence and couldn’t see what they were talking about,’ she added. And when asked, ‘Is there beauty in aging?’ she replied, ‘Aren’t you really saying, “Do you think it’s possible for other people to find aging beautiful?” And like, I just don’t give a s**t.’
Ignoring beauty standards: Family Ties star Justine Bateman, 57, spoke about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles in a new interview; (L) Pictured 2021, (R) Pictured in a still from Family Ties circa 1989
‘I think I look rad, I think my face represents who I am. I like it. That’s basically the end of the road,’ she added.
Speaking about women who use Botox and filler to prevent wrinkles, Justine said, ‘I feel sad for them. I feel sad that they’re not just enjoying life.’
‘I feel sad that they are distracted from the things they’re meant to do in life, with this consuming idea that they’ve got to fix their face before anything else can happen.’
She went on to describe how it’s possible to get many procedures to make your face look younger, but that she enjoys looking her age.
‘You can certainly look in the mirror and go “Oh, if I just had like a lower facelift I would get rid of this skin that catches the light, and then I could have that operation where you go into the eyelid, or you know take some of the skin out and this that’s hanging over now, over the eyelid, you can get that removed.”‘
‘Sure, you can do all of that, but even with that I would just… I feel like I would erase not only all my authority that I have now, but also I like feeling that I’m a different person now than I was when I was 20.’
‘I like looking in the mirror and seeing that evidence,’ she added.
