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Photo: Actress Penelope Cruz in Cannes last May. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Actress Penelope Cruz, 34, says she’s looking forward to being a wrinkled 80-year-old.

She told the Daily Mail in London that Hollywood’s obsession with youth is boring.

“When I hear a woman who is in her early 30s worrying about growing old, I just want to slap her,” Cruz said. She added:

When I’m 80, I want to look in the mirror and see an 80-year-old woman. My grandmothers had so many wrinkles, and every wrinkle told a story. I want to experience every year of my life for what it is.

Although she’s not afraid of wrinkles, Cruz is one of several celebrity endorsers of L’Oreal cosmetics, which include anti-aging skin creams.

She’s not opposed to plastic surgery, just to people who complain about the signs of aging, she said:

It doesn’t mean I am against somebody who does a little retouch or plastic surgery; that’s a different story. You can be 50 years old and want to do a little thing and it can look great. I don’t judge people who do it.

I just don’t like how women complain about growing old.

I loved Audrey Hepburn: she was so natural and she was a real woman. She was beautiful when she was young and she was beautiful when she was 60. Sophia Loren and Susan Sarandon, too. They are so amazing and so sexy. They are themselves, and that’s what makes them so attractive.

Related links:

• Heidi Klum prefers ‘dinosaur’ look over plastic surgery
• Botox-bashing celebrities vs. hypocrisy watchdogs
• Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford is showing his age, but rejects plastic surgery
• Buddhist sex kitten Mamie Van Doren vs. the signs of aging
• Plastic surgery opponent Cate Blanchett says wrinkles can be sexy

For more on celebrities and cosmetic medicine, see the links on the right side of this blog.

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