I haven't dealt well with the ageing process: Sharon Stone

'Basic Instinct' star Sharon Stone says that ageing in the spotlight has not been easy.

The 55-year-old actress, who is on her way to turn sixty, said she has had her down days, reported Daily Express.

"There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way I look right now.'

"I examined my face in the magnifying mirror, and I looked at my body and I cried and I cried and I cried," she said.

Stone feels happy to overcome that phase of her life.
 

"I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman. I think there's a lot of sexuality and glamour, allure and mystery to being a women that you just don't have when you're young.