Cannes [France], Actor Andy MacDowell, who has been attending the Cannes Film Festival for many years, made a surprising statement during an interview at the festival, telling PEOPLE how fashion and beauty at the event have evolved over the years. Talking about it, the mother of three shared, "I didn't come to Cannes to promote the 1989 film 'Sex, Lies and Videotape'. I had just had a child. I was scared. It is unknown which of her children she was referring to." However their son Justin was born in 1986, and their daughter Renee was born in 1990.She is also the mother of Margaret and all of her children with ex-husband Paul Qualley The Way Home star attended L'Oréal's Lights on Women awards ceremony. , "I am clearly indicating that she did not want to attend a major event like the Cannes Film Festival and expose herself to criticism for her postpartum personality," McDowell said at the time in Hollywood and elsewhere. Being "cruel" towards women used to be culturally acceptable, but notes that times have changed "because of our expectations changing and because we brought it out, that can't happen to us anymore," he shared, if She recently gave birth to a child and is coming to Cannes to attend her event. "Now I'm not afraid to come. At the time she did not attend the event, she explained, "I was breastfeeding, really big and She was a motherly figure and whatever, and I did not come. And that's a shame. It's really a shame."Now I embrace my female body. I think it's very sexy. But I think we can't feel sexy about ourselves because they're telling us we're not sexy," she added. But women are no longer accepting of that behavior, according to McDowell, "We've claimed it, and we've taken it back and we've said, 'But this is who I am as a woman.' Not girls, we're women,'" the Groundhog Day star tells PEOPLE.