Erin Murphy’s viral makeup-free selfie fights social media bullying

Erin Murphy never intended to go makeup-free or go without a facelift, but she felt it was important for her to post a recent bare-faced selfie to remind people: “If you’re going to write something, write something nice.”

“I think it was important because I’m a mother, a grandmother, and everyone’s on social media, and I think people tend to lead with something negative,” the 61-year-old actress, who played Tabitha in the 1960s. Sitcom “Enchanted” He told Fox News Digital.

Murphy said that she posted a picture of herself with her twin sister, and some people made negative comments that hurt her sister’s feelings, and “there were comments about me that may have been intended as a compliment, but they were not.”

She said people were saying the only reason she looked good was because she had some facelift.

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Erin Murphy, who played Tabitha on the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, is now 61. (ABC Photo Archive/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images; Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)

“This is why I posted it there,” she explained her Instagram post, writing in part: “This is 61…no plastic surgery, no makeup.”

“It wasn’t about saying anything except, you know, if you write something, write something nice. Maybe take a minute and think about it… but it seems very strange that people tend to be so negative,” Murphy told Fox News Digital.

She said she didn’t want to “be the face that doesn’t get a facelift. I definitely don’t want to talk about anyone who’s had a facelift. And that’s also something where the genre takes on a life of its own, where [people say] “Erin is completely natural and Erin will never get plastic surgery.”

While she said she doesn’t think she’ll get plastic surgery, she hasn’t ruled it out.

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“There is no shame for anyone who does this,” she stressed. “What I’m trying to say is that people can do whatever they want, people should feel good about themselves, and no one should let strangers tear them apart online.”

“So, it was more about bullies and using social media appropriately, which is why I put it out there,” she added.

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Murphy joked that she He loves makeup“And that’s the funny thing because I’m somehow now a face without makeup.”

Murphy as Tabitha in 1967. (ABC Photo Archive/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

She continued: “Obviously, I’ve been doing makeup since I was a kid and I’ve seen how it can change the other actors on the show. So, I mean, when you see someone come in without makeup in the morning and then all of a sudden, they look like a completely different person, there’s some magic in that.”

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The former child actress’s makeup routine is what she describes as a “five-minute facial,” and she said she uses “low- and high-end” skincare products.

“So, I wash my face with jojoba oil, which you can get — I get it at Trader Joe’s — but you can get it anywhere. So, it’s kind of figuring out what works for your skin because everyone’s different,” she said, adding that she also gets facials from time to time.

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She’s not big on doing anything cosmetic. “It’s mostly, you know, like topical stuff. I use good skin care,” she said.

Murphy uses Retin-A about once a month “Because it does great things for your skin… Plus, I drink more water than probably most people, so that makes a big difference.”

Speaking about the makeup, Murphy said it was interesting that she was cast in the series “Bewitched” because she looked more like her TV mother Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, suburban witch Samantha Stevens, than the actual actress.

Erin Murphy in Los Angeles in 2022. (Unique Nicole/Getty Images)

“She wasn’t someone who wore a lot of makeup like outside of the show,” Murphy explained. “People always say, ‘Oh my God, you look so much like Elizabeth Montgomery.’ I look more like Samantha than Elizabeth Montgomery, if that makes sense, because they hired me to look like her character.”

She continued, “She doesn’t look like Samantha off screen. Does that make sense? Like some people — me.” Wearing makeup To the grocery store. I like to dress up. It’s as if everyone is different in that way. She wasn’t really a fashion person. “She wasn’t really into all that stuff.”

Right now, she said her hair is “probably the easiest hair a woman can have,” and she hasn’t cut it in a year and a half.

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She added, “Sometimes I like to trim my ends myself and get highlights twice a year.”

said Murphy, a mother of six and grandmother of five Exercise routine It is “to be an active person”.

Murphy with TV mom Elizabeth Montgomery in 1966. (ABC Photo Archive/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

“I’m very involved in the little ones’ lives,” she said, adding that she loves taking them to the zoo.

She, who lives on the beach, said she doesn’t go to the gym, but she wakes up every morning to stretch and do a little yoga.

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“It probably takes 10 minutes of stretching and bending,” she said. “And I’m just active. I don’t know, I like to be outside… I think if I get out and get moving — at least, that works for me.”

As the holidays approach, Murphy said she’s eating “everything.”

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Murphy said she eats “everything” during the holidays. (Getty Images)

“I think the biggest mistake people make is going on a crazy diet where you limit yourself to one type of food or heavy this and heavy that,” she said. “I’m a big believer in moderation and everyone can have a cupcake. You can’t have the whole cake… Me I eat what I want in moderation“.

“This is one of the first years I’m not there Doing Thanksgiving She continued, “Me myself. I’ve spent, I don’t know, over 30 years at Thanksgiving and I love the whole meal myself. So, I kind of like to let the transitions change if you’re a parent, and as your kids get older, I let them do their thing.”

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Her favorite Christmas Eve tradition is handing out holiday pajamas that her loved ones can wear on Christmas morning.

“I love spending time with family and friends and navigating new traditions,” she added.