Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress, political activist, and former fashion model who had this idea stuck in her mind since childhood: "If You Don't Look Right, You're Not Going To Be Loved."
Jane has been vocal about her breast implants and facelift procedures, she has admitted that she went under the knife because of her insecurities. The 82-year-old in an interview with the Guardian reflected on her journey, she said, "Well, no matter what I do, I’m stuck with this (idea): if you don’t look right, you’re not going to be loved. So I always wanted to try to look right. I think when you’re poor you cut yourself, and when you’re rich you have plastic surgery.”
Jane reveals she is the happiest on her own. She has been married thrice, to the filmmaker Roger Vadim (1965-1973), activist and politician Tom Hayden (1973-1990) and billionaire Ted Turner (1991-2001). Her relationships made her realise, "Whenever I’ve been with men who are not strong I’ve had a really hard time. I’m now five years older than my dad was when he died and I’ve realised that I am, in fact, stronger than he was. I’m stronger than all the men that I’ve been married to."
Fonda is a political and environmental activist. She has been arrested on multiple occasions the last one of which was in December 2019. On being asked doesn't the arrests scares her, she says, "The fear part – I don’t know why this is true, but I am very rarely afraid. I’ve been in all kinds of situations: I’ve been shot at, I’ve had bombs dropped on me, but I tend not to be afraid. Maybe emotional intimacy scares me. That’s where my fear lives."
Jane is also an author and a learner by heart. She looks up to the younger generation to be inspired and learn how they are "good at knowing what to do and not to do, what to say and what not to say, and they provide tremendous insight."
Photograph: Guardian/Tiffany Nicholson
I’m stronger than all the men that I’ve been married to
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