Jamie Lee Curtis has expressed her candid thoughts on plastic surgery, reflecting on her own experience with the procedures at just 25 years old.
The topic of cosmetic surgery, though still somewhat taboo, has become more openly discussed among celebrities today, with many sharing their personal experiences and insights about going under the knife.
At 67, Curtis has elaborated on her decision to have plastic surgery in her twenties, an action she now views with regret. She believes it has significantly impacted society, saying it has ‘wiped out a generation’.
In an interview on 60 Minutes earlier this year, Curtis recounted how a cinematographer’s comments about her appearance on the set of the 1985 film Perfect influenced her decision.
“He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy.’ And I was 25, so for him to say that, it was very embarrassing,” the Freaky Friday actress remembered.
“So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery,” she admitted.
However, Curtis quickly ‘regretted’ the surgery, stating: “That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of sort of regretted it since.”
Now, Curtis is using her voice to advocate for other women who might be contemplating cosmetic surgery.
“I’ve become a really public advocate to say to women you’re gorgeous and you’re perfect the way you are. So yeah, it was not a good thing for me to do,” she explained.
In July, Curtis referred to the trend as ‘the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex’.
She shared with The Guardian: “I believe that we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human [appearance]. The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers – there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances.
She argued it is ‘aided and abetted by AI’ because ‘now the filter face is what people want’.
Curtis continued: “I’m not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it’s hard not to go: ‘Oh, well that looks better.’
“But what’s better? Better is fake. And there are too many examples – I will not name them – but very recently we have had a big onslaught through media, many of those people.”
On the US morning show TODAY, Curtis once again discussed her plastic surgery experience and the regret that followed.
“Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine,” she told host Hoda Kotb.
“Walk a mile in my shoes. I have done it. It did not work. And all I see is people now focusing their life on that.”
Curtis has advised her two daughters, Annie, 39, and Ruby, 29, to avoid altering their appearances.
In 2021, she sat down with Fast Company to discuss society’s obsession with beauty.
“The current trend of fillers and procedures, and this obsession with filtering, and the things that we do to adjust our appearance on Zoom are wiping out generations of beauty,” she remarked.
“Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”
Despite her current stance, Curtis disclosed in 2002 that she had previously undergone Botox and liposuction treatments.