Jane Fonda Reveals Why Shopping Sometimes Makes Her 'Uncomfortable': 'I Basically Don't Go'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jane Fonda on Feb. 8, 2025.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

If there’s one place you won’t catchJane Fonda— it’s at the mall.

The80 for Bradystar, 87, shared in an interview withThe New York Timespublished on Tuesday, Feb. 18, that she avoids going out shopping to stores when she can.

“I basically don’t go shopping,” Fonda told the outlet. “Occasionally I will order something online if I’m on a trip and going into forests and need quick-drying pants and shirts — that kind of thing.”

“But I don’t like to shop. I feel uncomfortable,” she added.

“I would say 90 percent I’ve made peace with my body, but there’s still that 10 percent. It’s hard to stand in the fitting room and put clothes on and not like the way you look,” she said.

However, the one thing Fonda said she wouldn’t hesitate to buy is sneakers. She told theNYTthat she had “quite a lot” of sneakers that she had amassed over the years. She said she “started really getting into” them in her 40s when she started “running” and “working out.”

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Jane Fonda in May 2024.Lionel Hahn/Getty

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“Now that I’m 87, I don’t wear heels anymore because they throw my pelvis and my hips out of whack,” she said. “So low heels or almost flat shoes have become my thing — and sneakers that have sparklies on them.”

She also noted that when it comes to sneakers she doesn’t “throw them away” because she doesn’t “want them to end up in the ocean.” So, she has “many, many dozens” of pairs including “old colored Reebok high-tops” and “cute sneakers with sequins and sparkles.”

In 2019, Fonda famously vowed during a climate change protest on Capitol Hill that she wouldno longer buy new clothes. She told the crowd at the time, “I needed something red and I went out and found this coat on sale. This is the last article of clothing that I will ever buy.”

She has since upheld the vow, rewearing several outfits in her closet for events including the2020 Academy Awardsand at the 2021Golden Globes. While accepting theprestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award, she wore thesame sleek white suitthat she wore to the 1996 Shape Magazine Awards in L.A., and explained the choice of wardrobe onTheEllen DeGeneresShow.

“So I had to go through my closet and find out something that still fit me and I have worn before, and I found something. I’m all set,” she added.

source: people.com