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Regina Hall is blaming bad lighting for making her realize that she has cellulite.
The One Battle After Another actress, 54, appeared on the Sept. 23 episode of the Good Hang podcast with Amy Poehler and opened up about the hilariously relatable moment. During the show, Poehler told her that she looks gorgeous before Hall joked that it’s because of the great lighting in the room.
“You know what I realized? I’m not aging, lighting is just getting bad,” Hall teased. “I have really good lighting in my bathroom, and in my bathroom, I’m something else. In my car, not so much. But in my bathroom, I’m like, ‘Mwuah!’ I’m chef’s kiss. So it’s the lighting.”
Poehler, also 54, then pointed out that whenever she goes into a dressing room, she’s shocked at how bad the lighting is and how she would probably buy more clothes if the stores had better lighting. Hall agreed that the lighting often is “horrible” before sharing the moment she first noticed her cellulite.
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“It was a dressing room where I honestly for the first time discovered the depth of my cellulite,” said the Scary Movie star. “That’s the truth, it was in a dressing room.”
“It’s when I started running. I started jogging,” she explained. “I was shopping with my boyfriend at the time, and I screamed. I’d never seen— I said, ‘Is this what someone’s looking at at night?’ But you know, they don’t notice. They just notice the legs, they don’t care.”
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Hall is often transparent about the beauty of aging gracefully.
In July, she joked about getting older when reminded during an interview with NewBeauty that she’ll be turning 55 in December.
“I don’t even like how that rolled off your tongue!” she told the outlet. “I feel a little violated by that number! I don’t know. Is it just me? Listen, I’m very grateful. I have a lot to be grateful for…and so I will embrace it. I embrace every day alive. That truly is the gift.”
Hall later admitted that she’ll simply view turning 55 as another regular day to appreciate.
“I don’t necessarily think of it as stages or decades. Each day and each year, I feel like I learn something,” she told Woman’s World. “I’m shocked that I’m in my 50s, not because I am, but because it goes so fast. I’m excited to make new memories with a different vantage point and a different wisdom in life. So I’m excited to see what that part looks like.”
