No More Risky Business: Rebecca DeMornay Shares Her Beauty Secrets at 50

Just take those old-fashioned records off the shelf!

We'll take some of that old-time rock n' roll ….and so will the woman who starred in a movie where Tom Cruise famously slid across a wood floor in his starch white undies.

The film was 1983's "Risky Business" and Rebecca DeMornay remember her after hour romps with Cruise while filming in Chicago. The following story is rated G for gluttony.

"Oh, it was deep dish pizza runs for Tom and I almost every single night," recalls DeMornay with a warm laugh. "We'd race around downtown Chicago after filming just hoping the pizza joints were still open. Oh my God, we loved that stuff."

DeMornay played the call girl with the heart of gold who even "made out" with Cruise on an El Train. Ask her about some frisky business and she is happy to share.  "Even sexier was the scene where I arrive at Tom's house in the middle of the night and take off all my clothes.

"I'm not sure how I found the confidence to be so powerful and just disrobe," says the now 51-year-old beauty. "I still think that's one of the most erotic scenes ever put on film and I'm proud that I found the freedom within me to do it."

Calling from the home outside of Los Angeles that she shares with her daughters, the timeless sex symbol needs to show up at our houses and conduct seminars on how to look …well, like Rebecca DeMornay.

First, she's a busy working mother who rarely slows down thanks to her kids, Sophia, 12, and Veronica, 9.

She does find some "me" time.

"My best beauty secret is I try to break a sweat as many times a week as I can. I love the stationary bicycle. There's something about breaking a sweat that really clears out your pores and I believe keeps your face looking so much younger," says DeMornay.

NO MORE RISKY BUSINESS

DeMornay says another tip to looking younger is to get rid of your vices – ASAP. "I love more than anything in the world to smoke cigarettes," she admits. "But I quit in 1992. That's really, really aging and unhealthy."

"I've also given up all fried foods. Sure, they're delicious, but they pack on the pounds and wreck your skin. My diet isn't so much restrictive, but I just try to add as many fruits and veggies as possible to my day. If you focus on those foods then they just push away the other foods that aren't so good for you."

THAT KISSER

DeMornay is known for her flawless skin. "None of the commercial products worked on my face," she laments. "Then I found Elemis in England. You can only get it online in America, but I love it because the line is made with marine algae and collagen.

"It's expensive but you literally feel it plump out your face," she says.

There is something new that she added to her face, but it didn't require a procedure. Yes, just like yours truly, she finally broke down and bought (sob) prescription glasses!

"I decided the heck with it. You can't squint forever," she says with a laugh. "I was holding everything at various lengths to see them.

"The key is you just pick a very, very cool pair of glasses. I had them custom made with the bifocals in the bottom.

"When I put them on, I look cool," she says. "It's not aging. It just looks like I added a fashion statement."

Mission accomplished…wait, that's a different Cruise film.

AN AMAZING CAREER

DeMornay, whose filmography also includes the hit "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" and the series "ER,"  is busy these days with films including the Rob Reiner coming-of-age drama "Flipped, now out on DVD.

She plays a '50s wife and mother in the film version of the beloved children's book. "This mom is lost in a sham of a marriage," she says. "It looks like they have a good, all-American family. She pretends everything is wonderful and it isn't."

This isn't the first time Reiner wanted to cast her in a film. "When I first came to Hollywood, I went up for this non-union, thing-a-ma-jig directed by a young man named Rob Reiner. It turned out to be the demo reel for a little film called 'This Is Spinal Tap,'" she says. "I was actually too young to be cast in the actual movie!"

DeMornay never allowed herself to be at Hollywood's whim. That's why she's also busy writing a novel. "Instead of sitting there crying the blues about not enough film roles out there, I realize that I have time now with my kids and the time to write. My biggest life lesson is to always find the positive even when something is negative," she says. "I've always been the type of person who sifted through the muck and said, 'Opportunity!'"

"The actor's life is so insecure and most actors get so neurotic from it and so terrorized," she says. "One of my greatest achievements is surfing this life and having fun with it."

It doesn't hurt to be beautiful, but she doesn't obsess.

She has one final anti-tip. "People say you're supposed to drink water, but I never do," she says with a laugh. "You can't do everything or you'll drive yourself nuts." 

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