Andie MacDowell: ‘Being 67 Doesn’t Mean You Look Like a Frumpy Person’

If there is a celebrity who embraces all facets of being a grownup (including gray hair), it’s Andie MacDowell.

Over the weekend, the 67-year-old actress shared an adorable selfie on Facebook of herself and her granddaughter Cozette, whom she affectionately called “grandbaby number one.”

In the caption, MacDowell alluded to balancing her role as a grandmother with keeping her lively spirit, because being 67 “doesn’t mean you look like a frumpy person.”

“We still have fun,” she wrote. “We laugh, we have a good time, we’re vibrant. We’re interesting. We are FUN!”

MacDowell believes “vibrancy comes from the heart and soul,” and people over 50 “do not have a shelf life,” which she has been saying “for years.”

“There’s no expiration date!” she wrote.

In April, the former fashion model expressed her joy to People about being a grandmother to her granddaughters, Cozette (whose parents are her son, Justin Qualley, and his wife, Nicolette Qualley) and Bluebell (whose parents are her daughter Rainey Qualley and her partner, Anthony Wilson).

“They came to stay with me, [Cozette] called me Gaga,” MacDowell said. “So, that’s fine with me. We’ll see how it all pans out if she continues to call me Gaga. But she couldn’t really say anything else, but she was adamantly calling me Gaga, so I was OK with that.”

But the Four Weddings and a Funeral star does have one boundary when it comes to names.

“Whatever they want to call me, they can call me,” she said. “As long as they don’t call me granny. That’s the only thing I said, ‘Don’t call me granny. I’m sorry, that one’s out.’ ”

In her Facebook post, MacDowell even took a moment to shut down an internet troll who criticized her wavy, gray curls because “we don’t need his negative energy.”

“Most of the time I hear the kind comments about my appearance, though honestly, it’s my heart I want you to see, so I’m not really worried about his opinion,” she said.

“Some men prefer for their ladies to continue to color their hair, and that’s fine as long as it makes the woman happy; that matters.”

MacDowell, who was previously nominated for an AARP Movies for Grownups award, said she’s “happy with my silver hair,” because it “brings me joy and I don’t think it ages me, but that’s my opinion.”

She recently made the decision to publicly embrace her gray hair after years of dyeing it. At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, she made headlines by wearing her hair down in classic waves.

In 2024, she told AARP that her children supported her decision to embrace her gray hair during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“My girls definitely were advocates,” she said. “As it started to grow out during COVID, they would say things like, ‘You look badass.’ And I just really liked it.

“There weren’t a lot of women out there in my position with silver hair. It’s just because of what my job is. I think there’s plenty of women in the world with silver hair in their 60s, but probably not in my line of business.”