Demi Moore’s age-defying looks have sparked a fierce debate about the ‘unfair’ beauty standards placed on ageing women. 

The conversation kicked off following the 62-year-old’s appearance at the SFFilm Awards this week.

Before walking the red carpet, The Substance star’s glam team posted two photos of Moore with immaculate hair and makeup. 

Without a wrinkle to be seen on her flawless face, the actress looked decades younger than her actual age.

Journalist Paul Skallas posted the photos to X, lamenting the ‘tough standard’ that women are now faced with to look impossibly youthful until old age.

‘Previously women were just supposed to be hot in their 20s and 30s, but now the expectation is they have to be hot all the way up until they die,’ he wrote. 

‘That’s a tough standard,’ Skallas added. 

The post, which has been viewed almost a million times on X so far, drew a strong reaction.

Demi Moore’s age-defying looks have sparked a fierce debate about the ‘unfair’ beauty standards placed on ageing women

Journalist Paul Skallas posted the photos to X, lamenting the ‘tough standard’ that women are now faced with to look impossibly youthful until old age

‘Money gives you the ability to stay hot. If you don’t invest a thousand a month on your looks you will age,’ commented one.

‘And make no mistake, being hot long past your youth is not only time consuming but expensive. It’s really unfair to expect 50+ year old women to compete with 20 somethings on the dating market. No wonder people are depressed,’ added another.

A third wrote, ‘Celebrities are off-the charts extreme outliers. But everyone sees them 24/7, so they shape our perception of what is normal in a way that our forbears never experienced.’

Another commented, ‘Calling it now. In 10 years, there will be demand for natural aging and wrinkles. People will always chase novelty until it stops being novel.’ 

While catching up with People magazine earlier this month, Moore revealed that ‘over the course of my whole life,’ she found it normal to place ‘judgment against myself.’

‘I can look back and go at 20, at 30 I was finding things that weren’t good enough,’ she told the outlet. ‘My relationship with [aging] now is much more in a joyous acceptance.’ 

‘Of course there’s things that you go, “Oh I wish that was not that way,” but in terms of the whole, I see myself and the fullness of who I am as opposed to just the external idea of who I am,’ the mother-of-three added.

Coming to terms with the inevitability of aging is not the only emotional battle Moore has dealt with — earlier this month, she got candid about having developed an eating disorder amid her successful Hollywood career.

The conversation kicked off following the 62-year-old’s appearance at the SFFilm Awards this week

People online debated Demi’s looks and the tough beauty standards on ageing women

She told Elle Magazine about her ‘obsession’ with ‘working out’ that consumed her for ‘five years’ after she was ‘humiliated’ by producers who told her to ‘lose weight.’

Just weeks ago, she recalled the ’embarrassing’ moment, claiming one of her producers ‘pulled [her] aside’ telling her to lose weight ‘multiple times.’

‘I internalized it,’ she said of the exchange with the unnamed producer. 

‘It moved me to a place of such torture and harshness against myself, of real extreme behaviors, and that I placed almost all the value of who I was, on my body being a certain way.’

She explained that experience was ‘just one thing’ that fueled the ‘torment I put myself through when I was younger.’ 

Now, the brunette beauty she has healed that part of her life and is working on her insecurities — and she is grateful to have a career in acting thanks to her comeback role in The Substance.