Sharon Stone in Los Angeles on Nov. 19, 2023; Dorothy Stone.Photo:Birdie Thompson/Variety via Getty; Sharon Stone/Instagram
Birdie Thompson/Variety via Getty; Sharon Stone/Instagram
Every day isMother’s DayforSharon’s Stone!
TheCasinoactress, 65, paid tribute to her mom Dorothy Stone on social media Tuesday, sharing a photo of the matriarch to bothher Instagram gridand Story.
In the snapshot, Dorothy, 90, issmiling at the camera, dressed in purple pants, a light-blue shirt and a dark-blue cardigan, accessorizing with a chic, loosely tied multicolored scarf.
“MOM, born in ‘33. Looking gorgeous,” Sharon wrote in the caption.
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Holland Taylorsaid, “Wow” in her own comment, while style mavenVera Wangleft a string of supportive emojis: “👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️😍🙏😌xxv.”
Dorothy appears to be doing well after facing health challenges in the past, includingan acute stroke in November 2021and at least one other before that.
“Say a prayer for Dorothy Marie Stone, my mom, who has suffered another acute stroke tonight,” Sharonwrote on Instagram at the time, posting a smiling shot of her lookalike mother. “Thx 🙏🏻🤍”
While theSliverstar did not disclose how many strokes Dorothy had to date, she shared in 2019 that her mother and grandmother had both suffered strokes in the past.
Dorothy and Sharon Stone in Beverly Hills, California, on Nov. 1, 2012.David Livingston/Getty
David Livingston/Getty
This family history — andher own near-fatal strokein 2001 — inspired her to advocate for greater awareness about brain-ageing diseases that “disproportionally affect women,” perVariety.
“This is why I do it: My mother had a stroke. My grandmother had a stroke. I had a massive stroke — and a nine-day brain bleed,” she told the outlet at theWomen’s Brain Health Initiativein 2019.
Sharon herself is a singlemom to three sons: Quinn, 17, Laird, 18, and Roan, 23, all of whom she welcomed viaadoption.
She added at the time, “We have a choice about what we teach our children — we have to stand tall and say yes to love.”
source: people.com
