Profile: Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward is calling the shots

by:Megan Lehmann

From: The Weekend Australian Magazine 

September 14, 201312:00AM

 

Rachel Ward at her Birchgrove home: "There's much more ownership if your looks aren't involved." Picture: Brendan Read Source: Supplied

 

A TANGLE of boho-chic silver bracelets chimes merrily as Rachel Ward stretches and pulls at the skin around her lovely eyes in a way that would make a beautician sob.

"It's not going to make any difference to my life whether my cheeks are up here or down here," she says, demonstrating the options with more cavalier scrunching. "What's it going to change? I mean, I'm not trying to lasso some 30-year-old, you know, and I'm not going to lose a job over it."
It's easy to dismiss the significance of beauty when you have it, but to hear this one-time model and big-screen sex symbol tell it, ageing - she has just turned 56 - has set her free.

FULL STORY: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/rachel-ward-is-calling-the-shots/story-e6frg8h6-1226718544693