Sharon Stone won’t ever “give up” on her body as she ages.

In a new interview with The Sunday Times, published on Sunday, March 2, Stone, 66, got real about accepting change while growing older.

“A lot of people give up as they get older. They let go of their body because it’s collapsing anyway, or it’s like, ‘I’m not defined by my body any more.’ But you still have to love that body,” Stone said. “I joke that my underarms have pleats now. I think, ‘Well, I had beautiful arms and now they’re strong and painting [she is an artist] and like angel wings. So what if they have pleats? Maybe that’s what makes them wonderful now.’”

The Basic Instinct star went on to discuss a time when she was at late novelist Jackie Collins’ home “playing billiards with her and her sister, Joan.”

“And Joan said: ‘Let me give you a tip. After 40, never get on top and never wave goodbye,’” Stone said of the 91-year-old actress. “Joan once described a man to me as a ‘bungalow — everything downstairs, nothing upstairs.’ She’s so funny.”

Stone — who has three sons, Roan, 24, Laird, 19, and Quinn, 18 — keeps her health a priority after suffering a stroke due to a brain hemorrhage in 2001. Stone’s condition steadily improved over time, helped in part by overhauling her diet, quitting alcohol and implementing a daily exercise regimen — but she told Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that her “radiance went away.”

“It’s a radiance and a magnetism and a presence,” she said. “It comes from health and well-being and youth and I think that it comes from confidence, too. And I think that when you’re in this kind of business that we’re in, they start telling you that you don’t have it anymore and you start believing it.”

Stone, however, has always tried to stay true to who she is while navigating what is notoriously an unforgiving industry. She went on to discuss some of her infamous red carpet looks with The Times, calling the process of getting Hollywood glam “an entire transformation.”

“I call it the Mrs. Potato Head moment. We put on the face, we put on the dress and we shove her out of the door,” she said, noting that she has no fashion regrets “because I have a sense of humor.”

“And, frankly, sometimes I wore things just to be funny. Like when I wore a Valentino feather hat at the MTV awards [in 1993],” she said.

Stone also revealed she is in possession of most of her film wardrobes after she discovered studio executives “were selling my underwear” to make a dime.

Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Sharon Stone is reflecting on her 2001 stroke and the aftermath that came with it. The Basic Instinct actress, 66, opened up about the near-death experience in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, July 9, telling the outlet that the people around her “took advantage” of her during her […]

“After I did a television film in the 1980s they sold my wardrobe at a discount at the studio to make their money back, and they were selling my underwear,” she stated. “I was so embarrassed and uncomfortable that the crew guys were rummaging around in my underpants, I thought ‘never again.’ So I had it put into my contracts that I keep all my clothes from films, unless they are studio rentals.”

Stone said her white Basic Instinct minidress is “in a safe” while the rest of her movie costumes are “in storage.”

“The clothes from Casino were magnificent. What an amazing job Rita Ryack, the costume designer, did. I took the Pucci jacket that Ginger dies in,” she revealed.