Julianne Moore's Take On Aging Analysis

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Wrinkles got you down? Get inspired by Julianne Moore's take on aging

Changing the way society thinks about aging

It’s hard to embrace getting older when society doesn’t see it as a positive thing. It’s very common to not see women over the age of 40 in acting roles or in marketing campaigns. It’s like they somehow just disappear from the collective consciousness. That’s not a good thing. It leads to women feeling bad about themselves and fighting the aging process. Luckily, over the past few years there have been women, like Julianne Moore, who refuse to go gently into the good night. They act as role models, and examples of how beautiful it is to age. They also have been challenging society, and Hollywood, about their ideas and concepts

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