Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of screen legend Tony Curtis, posed topless on the cover of U.S. magazine AARP earlier in the year in a bid to persuade older women they can remain beautiful if they take care of themselves.

The Trading Places star, who turned 50 this year, bares her shoulders and poses with grey hair on the front of the May/June (08) issue of AARP (American Association Of Retired Persons) magazine, although her nipples are kept out of sight.

She tells the publication, "I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

"I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then... Getting older means paring yourself down to an essential version of yourself."

Curtis also refuses to dye her hair.

She adds, "I've let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation."

Most fans will remember the eternally sexy Jamie Lee best for this scene in the hit film Trading Places, and with her co-stars in the same movie, Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd.  (c) tPC (c) WENN