Jane Fonda shows what it means to be an Icon on the cover of Harper Bazaar’s April “Reinvention Issue”

At 83 years old, Jane Fonda is still giving other models a run for their money. “At the age of 83, the actress, activist, and feminist is redefining what it means to be a bonafide icon,” Harper’s Bazaar wrote in a caption revealing the April cover, dubbed, “The Reinvention Issue.”

The award-winning actress was photographed by Mario Sorrenti wearing a dazzling black Ralph Lauren Collection sequin dress and silver-toned sleek short haircut and bangs. Throughout the magazine, she’s seen in a variety of other striking black and white images wearing chic looks from Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler and more luxury designers.

Fonda is obviously fabulous, so the inquiring minds at Harper’s Bazaar had to ask: Is she looking for a relationship right now? And the actor was happy to dish on what attracts her to a man. “Part of the reason I get into a relationship with a man is because I feel that he can take me down a new path. I’m attracted to people who can teach me things and whose lives are different from mine, and so I give myself over to that,” she said.

But at this point in her life, Fonda isn’t exactly eager to embark on a new romantic relationship. “I don’t want to be in a relationship, a sexual relationship, again. I don’t have that desire. Do I fantasize? Yes, here’s my fantasy. I’ll just put it out there. That I meet a professor or a researcher, somebody in that line who is really capable of loving, of cherishing a woman, so that I could test myself and see if I could show up. I think maybe now I could, but the problem is that, like a man, I would want a younger man,” she said.

The actor has also realized a few things about intimacy over the years and says it’s not something she’s not really capable of. “It’s not them. It’s me. If a guy had come along and said, ‘Come on, Fonda, show up,’ I would have run away scared. I was attracted to men who never would have done that to me because they couldn’t necessarily show up themselves. I didn’t know that at the time, but now I know,” she said.

You can read more of the interview and view the photos at harpersbazaar.com.

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