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Interview With Lauren Hutton
Aired October 03, 2003 - 10:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: You know, a lot has changed since the so-called good old day not least of which the nation's image of growing older. Medical care, more active lifestyles share part of that credit as the baby boomers we know grow more gray. So the question is raised, is 60 the new 30? Well AARP declares it as fact on the cover of its magazine.
And that claim is echoed by our guest this morning, model, actress, entrepreneur, just all around beautiful person, Lauren Hutton. Good morning, how are you?
LAUREN HUTTON, MODEL, ACTRESS, ENTREPRENEUR: Good morning. It's not echoed by me. They forgot to put quote marks on it. It was a quote from me.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: That came from you?
HUTTON: Yes. I remember when, you know, for my generation to turn 30 we were all very scared of it because it had done in our mothers.
HARRIS: That's right.
HUTTON: And turned out it was nothing.
HARRIS: So why do women still other about it?
HUTTON: I'm hoping 60 will be nothing, too. I think if you take care of yourself basically your brain gets better.
HARRIS: You know what? We have seen so much proof of that. People now a days -- I go work out regularly and I see people in the gym or running around Stone Mountain (ph). And I see people who are obviously much older than me kicking my butt. It's amazing to see the difference it makes when people actually take care of their bodies.
HUTTON: Yes, huge. Also keeps your arteries open and things like that.
I mean, but we do change, nonetheless. I had to start a whole makeup company when I went back to -- well I didn't start it then, I just started it in the last year. But when I went back to modeling at 46, which had never been done before, that's when the new J. Crew catalog, those pictures -- they are finally using me again.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: Smart move on their part.
HUTTON: But it was the worst lighting. This is a make-up thing that I did. And it's because our skin quality actually changes, and we get shadows -- the skin thins because it doesn't have water inside it anymore. So you have to get much lighter pigment, no mica, no shine, no pearl, no filler. There's a lot of things they put in regular makeup...
HARRIS: I must say...
HUTTON: ... terrible on an older person's skin.
HARRIS: I don't know nearly as much of that as my partner Daryn Kagan does.
HUTTON: Well in your new job you might. I have four colors and one of them is a great brown and you might use it because it looks great on men too.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Lauren, let me just jump in here...
HUTTON: Just call LaurenHutton.com, you'll be able to get it, Leon.
KAGAN: Let me -- this is Daryn Kagan. Let me just jump in here for a girl minute. I do have some of the makeup that we see in your kit there. And I'm looking at it, it's beautiful colors, it doesn't look different from the things that I have here and that we use here.
HUTTON: It is.
KAGAN: It is different. What's the biggest makeup faux pas that women make as they get older? That you're walking the down street and you're like, Oh, honey, I wish I had a tissue to clean you up.
HUTTON: They wear regular girl's makeup and it's very bright. The pigment, there's too much pigment. So even if you're being very careful you're going to look like a clown no matter what.
Also, the concealer is thick. It's got something called filler in it. I had to go and spend weeks in labs in Italy and Canada and America to learn all this.
But even when I was modeling I would get the thinnest and best stuff that I could find having had, you know, by then 30 something years experience in modeling which is rare.
HARRIS: Yes, it is.
KAGAN: So all we need some of this and you get to look like you?
HUTTON: Yes, LaurenHutton.com. No, you look like the best of you which is much better.
KAGAN: Oh, OK. Oh, I don't know.
HUTTON: Can you imagine if everyone looked one way? How boring and grotesque. I mean we wouldn't even make love anymore.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: You know, what I want to hear from you is how much you think the way a person carries themselves has to do with it.
HUTTON: You mean if they are optimistic and kind of happy and instead of...
HARRIS: Well how they think of themselves, how they comport themselves, how they carry themselves?
HUTTON: That's important. I grew up in Charleston when I was very young, South Carolina. And they were old Charlestonians. And I had to sit one hour a day in a straight back chair at the age of I think two. Can you imagine putting a two or three-year-old an hour every single day so you would have good posture?
HARRIS: That's interesting.
HUTTON: I made up for it, though. Don't worry. I escaped, as you can tell.
KAGAN: Well whatever it is you're doing, using, it's working because you look absolutely incredible.
HUTTON: It's really good. It's a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) too but it's not many stores. It's mostly just the Web site, LaurenHutton.com.
But it really is different because I couldn't have gotten back to modeling at 46. And like I say, it's great on anybody. My teenage god daughters use it because it's sort of invisible makeup. And that's the mistake women make. You shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
HARRIS: Let me ask you this...
HUTTON: And my effort is only six minutes this morning. Today it was 45 minutes.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: Well it paid off. I've got to ask you this. The reason why we wanted to talk to you this comment apparently attributed to you about the 60 being the new 30.
HUTTON: AARP should have put it quote marks. I had forgotten I said it. Diane Sawyer reminded me that I said it to her a year before and I completely forgotten, last year.
HARRIS: If that's the way is it nowadays, I'm curious what happens to you...
HUTTON: Wait!
HARRIS: Hang on a second. We'll give her some time to get her ear piece in. I've got ask her this question.
KAGAN: Are you back with us, Lauren?
HUTTON: I lost you.
KAGAN: Are you back with us?
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: We call that the CNN salute. When you do it like this that's the CNN salute.
But you know what I want to know is when's the last time some young guy hit on you?
HUTTON: I'm leaving for Paris in a week.
KAGAN: Oh la la. A French young guy.
HARRIS: You said a mouthful.
KAGAN: Not just a young guy, a French young guy.
(CROSSTALK)
HUTTON: You know, the problem is men my age, the great ones, they are married to great and sometimes greater women. So you can't -- that's not the thing to do.
But you know good guys, they are certainly not ones you would throw back, these are people over 30. But also men lie about their age.
HARRIS: Wait a second.
HUTTON: They say they are older. No, no, guys tell me they are older. So they lie about your age. You have to be a little careful there. I don't think too much.
KAGAN: Whatever they are doing it's worth it. Whatever you are doing it is working. You look great, thanks for taking the time and good luck with the new project.
HARRIS: Glad to have you with us today. Take care.
HUTTON: You, too, Leon. Have fun in the next joint.
HARRIS: Thank you. Sure will. You got it. We'll see you.
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Aired October 3, 2003 - 10:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: You know, a lot has changed since the so-called good old day not least of which the nation's image of growing older. Medical care, more active lifestyles share part of that credit as the baby boomers we know grow more gray. So the question is raised, is 60 the new 30? Well AARP declares it as fact on the cover of its magazine.
And that claim is echoed by our guest this morning, model, actress, entrepreneur, just all around beautiful person, Lauren Hutton. Good morning, how are you?
LAUREN HUTTON, MODEL, ACTRESS, ENTREPRENEUR: Good morning. It's not echoed by me. They forgot to put quote marks on it. It was a quote from me.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: That came from you?
HUTTON: Yes. I remember when, you know, for my generation to turn 30 we were all very scared of it because it had done in our mothers.
HARRIS: That's right.
HUTTON: And turned out it was nothing.
HARRIS: So why do women still other about it?
HUTTON: I'm hoping 60 will be nothing, too. I think if you take care of yourself basically your brain gets better.
HARRIS: You know what? We have seen so much proof of that. People now a days -- I go work out regularly and I see people in the gym or running around Stone Mountain (ph). And I see people who are obviously much older than me kicking my butt. It's amazing to see the difference it makes when people actually take care of their bodies.
HUTTON: Yes, huge. Also keeps your arteries open and things like that.
I mean, but we do change, nonetheless. I had to start a whole makeup company when I went back to -- well I didn't start it then, I just started it in the last year. But when I went back to modeling at 46, which had never been done before, that's when the new J. Crew catalog, those pictures -- they are finally using me again.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: Smart move on their part.
HUTTON: But it was the worst lighting. This is a make-up thing that I did. And it's because our skin quality actually changes, and we get shadows -- the skin thins because it doesn't have water inside it anymore. So you have to get much lighter pigment, no mica, no shine, no pearl, no filler. There's a lot of things they put in regular makeup...
HARRIS: I must say...
HUTTON: ... terrible on an older person's skin.
HARRIS: I don't know nearly as much of that as my partner Daryn Kagan does.
HUTTON: Well in your new job you might. I have four colors and one of them is a great brown and you might use it because it looks great on men too.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Lauren, let me just jump in here...
HUTTON: Just call LaurenHutton.com, you'll be able to get it, Leon.
KAGAN: Let me -- this is Daryn Kagan. Let me just jump in here for a girl minute. I do have some of the makeup that we see in your kit there. And I'm looking at it, it's beautiful colors, it doesn't look different from the things that I have here and that we use here.
HUTTON: It is.
KAGAN: It is different. What's the biggest makeup faux pas that women make as they get older? That you're walking the down street and you're like, Oh, honey, I wish I had a tissue to clean you up.
HUTTON: They wear regular girl's makeup and it's very bright. The pigment, there's too much pigment. So even if you're being very careful you're going to look like a clown no matter what.
Also, the concealer is thick. It's got something called filler in it. I had to go and spend weeks in labs in Italy and Canada and America to learn all this.
But even when I was modeling I would get the thinnest and best stuff that I could find having had, you know, by then 30 something years experience in modeling which is rare.
HARRIS: Yes, it is.
KAGAN: So all we need some of this and you get to look like you?
HUTTON: Yes, LaurenHutton.com. No, you look like the best of you which is much better.
KAGAN: Oh, OK. Oh, I don't know.
HUTTON: Can you imagine if everyone looked one way? How boring and grotesque. I mean we wouldn't even make love anymore.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: You know, what I want to hear from you is how much you think the way a person carries themselves has to do with it.
HUTTON: You mean if they are optimistic and kind of happy and instead of...
HARRIS: Well how they think of themselves, how they comport themselves, how they carry themselves?
HUTTON: That's important. I grew up in Charleston when I was very young, South Carolina. And they were old Charlestonians. And I had to sit one hour a day in a straight back chair at the age of I think two. Can you imagine putting a two or three-year-old an hour every single day so you would have good posture?
HARRIS: That's interesting.
HUTTON: I made up for it, though. Don't worry. I escaped, as you can tell.
KAGAN: Well whatever it is you're doing, using, it's working because you look absolutely incredible.
HUTTON: It's really good. It's a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) too but it's not many stores. It's mostly just the Web site, LaurenHutton.com.
But it really is different because I couldn't have gotten back to modeling at 46. And like I say, it's great on anybody. My teenage god daughters use it because it's sort of invisible makeup. And that's the mistake women make. You shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
HARRIS: Let me ask you this...
HUTTON: And my effort is only six minutes this morning. Today it was 45 minutes.
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: Well it paid off. I've got to ask you this. The reason why we wanted to talk to you this comment apparently attributed to you about the 60 being the new 30.
HUTTON: AARP should have put it quote marks. I had forgotten I said it. Diane Sawyer reminded me that I said it to her a year before and I completely forgotten, last year.
HARRIS: If that's the way is it nowadays, I'm curious what happens to you...
HUTTON: Wait!
HARRIS: Hang on a second. We'll give her some time to get her ear piece in. I've got ask her this question.
KAGAN: Are you back with us, Lauren?
HUTTON: I lost you.
KAGAN: Are you back with us?
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: We call that the CNN salute. When you do it like this that's the CNN salute.
But you know what I want to know is when's the last time some young guy hit on you?
HUTTON: I'm leaving for Paris in a week.
KAGAN: Oh la la. A French young guy.
HARRIS: You said a mouthful.
KAGAN: Not just a young guy, a French young guy.
(CROSSTALK)
HUTTON: You know, the problem is men my age, the great ones, they are married to great and sometimes greater women. So you can't -- that's not the thing to do.
But you know good guys, they are certainly not ones you would throw back, these are people over 30. But also men lie about their age.
HARRIS: Wait a second.
HUTTON: They say they are older. No, no, guys tell me they are older. So they lie about your age. You have to be a little careful there. I don't think too much.
KAGAN: Whatever they are doing it's worth it. Whatever you are doing it is working. You look great, thanks for taking the time and good luck with the new project.
HARRIS: Glad to have you with us today. Take care.
HUTTON: You, too, Leon. Have fun in the next joint.
HARRIS: Thank you. Sure will. You got it. We'll see you.
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