{"id":187002,"date":"2025-12-12T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:02:09","slug":"women-rally-behind-catherine-zeta-jones-over-age-shaming-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187002\/","title":{"rendered":"Women rally behind Catherine Zeta-Jones over age-shaming comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women are rallying behind Oscar-winning actor Catherine Zeta-Jones after she faced criticism on social media over her looks at a recent red carpet event.<\/p>\n

Zeta-Jones attended a Netflix event in Los Angeles on 9 November where a TikTok interview about her role in the latest Wednesday series was overshadowed by comments about her appearance.<\/p>\n

Laura White, 58, and this year’s winner of Miss Great Britain Classic, called the backlash “complete nonsense”, adding that “men don’t have this sell-by\/use-by date that women do”.<\/p>\n

Beauty journalist Sali Hughes, 50, said unlike men, women were unfairly judged for ageing and Zeta-Jones should be free to look however she liked.<\/p>\n

In the video, which was also posted on Facebook and had more than 2.5m views, Zeta-Jones, who is from Mumbles, Swansea, talked about how much she enjoyed exploring her character, Morticia Addams, in season two.<\/p>\n

But many of the hundreds of comments focused on her age and were disparaging about her appearance.<\/p>\n

The online backlash sparked widespread defence of Zeta-Jones, including a viral video from one Facebook user which said: “You bully women when they get too much work done and bully them when they don’t have enough.”<\/p>\n

Commenters also came to her defence, with one writing: “It’s called ageing naturally and she looks beautiful.”<\/p>\n

Others described her as “gorgeous” and “so pretty”, while someone else said that “she looks her age – that’s called reality.”<\/p>\n

\"Laura<\/p>\n

Laura White said “men don’t have this sell-by\/use-by date that women do” [Laura White]<\/p>\n

Ms White arrived for her interview at BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> earlier makeup-free to “prove a point” and to show there was no set “template” for what a woman in her 50s should look like.<\/p>\n

Like many women her age, she said she “takes care of herself” not to look younger but to feel “better” and look “healthy”.<\/p>\n

“Ageing is a privilege and if we can do it the best we can, that’s what really matters,” she added.<\/p>\n

She argued that men were not held to the same beauty standards, adding “no-one questions how old Tom Cruise, George Clooney or Tom Jones are – they just look ‘great’.”<\/p>\n

She said it was one of the reasons she entered Miss Great Britain’s category for over-45s, to “show that midlife women are still here” and “still have it”.<\/p>\n

\"Sali<\/p>\n

Welsh beauty writer Sali Hughes says women were frequently and unfairly judged for ageing [Dora Paphides]<\/p>\n

Hughes, an author and presenter from Wales, said that while Zeta-Jones was “gorgeous” it was “not the point”, adding she should be free to look however she liked without her age being scrutinised.<\/p>\n

She said the online abuse showed no woman was “immune” and that women do not deserve the “constant narrative” that they are not good enough or young enough – a problem that is “galling, regardless of who the victim is”.<\/p>\n

Asked if men face the same scrutiny, she said “no, never”, noting women were attacked simply for having the “audacity” to exist online as they age.<\/p>\n

Despite the beauty industry promoting “longevity”, Hughes said women were still criticised whether they aged naturally or underwent treatments like plastic surgery or injectables.<\/p>\n

“If you age naturally, people say you should do more; if you get work done, you’re accused of not aging gracefully enough,” she added.<\/p>\n

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