Heather Graham is 43 years old. If I knew nothing about her, I would guess she was about 30. Of course these images are heavily Photoshopped, but she looks just about this amazing in person too. In terms of how she stays this way, I thought she was vegetarian, but she’s not. She’s only said that she limits meat, and that as a rule she avoids sugar and flour. Whatever she’s doing, it’s working for her.

Graham covers the new Women’s Health UK. The photo spread is very nice, it’s a kind of comfortable sexy look that emphasizes her long legs. In the interview, Graham talks about sex and her thoughts on sexuality. It confused me a little, and I’ll get into that in a moment. I think the problem is that we have no context for these quotes yet. They sound a little put-on, like something Christina Aguilera would say.

She’s one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols thanks to her screen siren role in the likes of Austin Powers, Boogie Nights and The Hangover.
But Heather Graham has revealed while it took her ‘a long time’ to feel good about sex, it has now finally become a part of who she is.

Opening up in an interview with the November/December issue of Women’s Health magazine, she explained: ‘It’s an aspect of my personality. Sex is a part of who I am and it took me a long time to feel good about it.

‘I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad to be a person who really enjoys sex.’

In spite of her views surrounding sex, the 43-year-old actress slammed Hollywood as a ‘sexist’ industry, and claimed that women don’t have the freedom to express themselves sexually in the US.

She added: ‘The industry is totally sexist. It’s run by men mostly. Look at the movies that are coming out. How many are about women? If you look at who the leads are, they’re probably 75 per cent men.

‘A woman being able to express her sexuality is the ultimate form of freedom. In American culture, I feel like women don’t have the safety to express themselves sexually.

‘There’s a lot of movies about men’s fantasies, but what about women? What would the world be like if women asked for everything they wanted?’

[From The Daily Mail]

I really liked what she said about how movies are geared toward men instead of women. I don’t know if it’s sexist particularly or just a numbers game. I guess those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. She was in The Hangover movies. Is she throwing some shade on that franchise or just speaking in general terms about how it’s disappointing that there aren’t more movies for women? We have romcoms of course, but they’re pretty bad usually.

As for her comments about being sexy and embracing it, it sounds strange to me. I don’t think she’s putting us on, but the first time I saw her was in Boogie Nights when she played a porn star. That’s always been her image, so it’s hard for me to understand that she needed to come to terms with that. She also said in the same interview that she never thought of herself as attractive. “I always wanted to be the pretty girl but I thought I wasn’t. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.” Doesn’t every actress say some version of this? Something like “I don’t think I’m pretty, but over time I learned to live with it and embrace it.” Is it false humility or does this particular knockout really remember feeling not worthy?

Photo credit: WENN.com and Women’s Health