Halle Berry is speaking out about aging in Hollywood.
Posing for the Cut in a series of totally sheer looks, the 59-year-old is ready to “be louder than [she has] ever been.”
Calling her current era her “menopause mission,” she shares, “When you get older, you stop getting sized up like a pork chop.”
Berry adds, “You get to this age where you feel like you’re being marginalized, devalued. You feel it at work. You feel it from society … But I have adamantly decided I am not going to allow myself to be erased.”
As such, she’s not slowing down, anytime soon. “This year, Berry will produce three series and seven movies and is set to star in all of them,” the publication reminds its readers.
The photoshoot is set in what looks to be a Hollywood home and was shot by Renell Medrano.
Each picture features a stunning Berry wearing see-through gowns, bodysuits without pants and high-slit silhouettes.
One photo shows the actress in a McQueen dress made of vertical leather strips that shows off peekaboo swaths of skin. In another, Berry wears a nude-toned sheer Valentino gown that makes it look as though she’s wearing nothing at all.
The most covered photo is shot outside with an oversized Saint Laurent trenchcoat, though it’s made clear that she’s wearing nothing beneath the waist-tied outerwear.
Berry credits a wellness retreat a few years ago with helping her heal her relationship with herself.
“I realized I was just pulling in mirror images of myself — people who were broken, people with childhood wounds that weren’t addressed,” adding, “I had to face the pain of what happened to me as a kid and release my secrets. I had to get it out of my body so I could fully love myself and show up for my own children.”
The 59-year-old is practicing the self-love that she preaches, having just celebrated her 59th birthday in August by posting a series of bikini snaps on Instagram.
She then revisited the Bond-style photoshoot a few months later, writing “This is 59” with another bikini pic.
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