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(From left to right) Ellen DeGeneres, Andie MacDowell, Paulina Porizkova, Pat Benatar, and Lorraine Bracco.
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Model and author Paulina Porizkova, 60, is celebrating her age instead of hiding it.
“I’m very conscious of how privileged I am, but nowhere more so than being a healthy aging human,” she said on Instagram recently. “Why can’t we celebrate that instead of perpetual youth? Why not also celebrate how far we’ve come instead of just where we’d like to be?”
Much of Porizkova’s joyful spirit comes from embracing her stunning gray hair.
“I love my gray hair," she told Harper’s Bazaar in April. “It still requires maintenance, believe it or not, but I feel very good about my hair.”
Nonnas and Sopranos star Lorraine Bracco, 70, is another celebrity going back to her roots, hair-color-wise. Bracco states that she reminds her agent to communicate to others that she has gray hair and is “no longer a brunette.”
“People have been very accepting to it, "she expressed on TikTok. “Honestly, I stopped coloring it during COVID, and I had no idea what it was going to look like. Half dark, half gray, half whatever it was. I think I was pretty lucky.”
Joining the gray bandwagon is former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who has traded in her platinum pixie for salt-and-pepper locks, and ’80s ‘Love Is a Battlefield’ rocker Pat Benatar, who was recently spotted sporting a super-cool gray shag.
Even raven-haired beauty Demi Moore told People she will ‘100 percent’ entertain going gray when the time is right. “I look at women who have that incredible gray, especially long, and I think it’s striking,” she said. “I just don’t have enough to make it interesting. Mine’s like a smattering that makes my hair look murky. I didn’t really start coloring my hair until I was, like, 55.”
In April, Johnny Wright, the longtime hairstylist for television host Tamron Hall, 54, noted that many people are opting to go gray because “people are being their authentic self,” and doing “whatever is going to make you happy.”
Saying bye-bye to the dye
Andie MacDowell is one of the more notable stars in recent years who has publicly gone gray after years of dyeing her hair. At the 2025 Cannes Festival, she wore her hair in a memorable French twist.
The actor, 67, first caused a stir in the fall of 2021 when she strutted down the L’Oréal Paris runway rocking a one-shouldered, marabou-trimmed sequin gown with a thigh-high slit — and a riot of unexpected silver curls.
MacDowell told AARP that the au naturel look was more than aesthetics. It was a way to pay homage to her late mother, who died at 53, when MacDowell was only 23. “I never got to see her with silver hair. I only had my father to go by, and I look a lot like my father. And he had salt-and-pepper hair, and I just always found it so beautiful,” she says.
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