How Jane Seymour Gets Better With Age
“As far as I’m concerned, there are no more rules. None,” the storied actress tells Harper’s Bazaar
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Jane Seymour didn't get her OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for aging gracefully—that honor came after 57 years of killing it on screen, from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman to Wedding Crashers. But at 75, she's cracked a code that Hollywood pretends doesn't exist: consistency beats everything, whether you're talking about a decades-long acting career or the skincare routine that actually works.
According to Harper's Bazaar, Seymour has been the face of Crépe Erase for 15 years, and she travels with the brand's Body Resurfacing Serum everywhere. But here's what matters: she doesn't treat skincare like a luxury or a performance. She treats it like non-negotiable maintenance. Hot shower, exfoliate, apply Crépe Erase, freeze some teaspoons to wake up her face. Then she moves on. "My skincare is the beauty secret," she says plainly. No mystique. No ten-step routine. Just discipline.
The Radical Freedom of Hitting 70
What's genuinely interesting is how Seymour talks about age itself. She feels 13 in her head but thinks like someone who's lived enough to know that rules are optional now. She shares clothes with her 13-year-old granddaughter. She just joined TikTok—30,000 followers, no overthinking. She's spending time across generations, so she's not stuck in some 70-plus bubble comparing medications. She's actively in her daughter's world and her granddaughter's world, which means she's seeing what actually matters to people who have real problems.
The beauty part is almost incidental. Seymour credits sun protection and consistent exfoliation for her skin—a stark contrast to her younger days, when she actually used frying oil to tan (yes, really). She eats Mediterranean, does Pilates and stair climbing, dark chocolate as her only real indulgence. But the real shift is philosophical. Instead of fearing wrinkles or pretending to be younger, she's made peace with the fact that experience is the only thing you genuinely can't fake, and the bumps in the road were all just lessons in disguise.
For makeup, she keeps it remedial—a lash if she's on camera, concealer only where needed, mostly nothing. Charlotte Tilbury mascara made the cut. The rest is just making space for what actually shows up when you take care of yourself from the inside.
The best part about getting older, Seymour says, is knowing that there are no more rules—and actually meaning it.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
