Jamie Lee Curtis shared brutally honest opinion of plastic surgery she claims has 'wiped out a generation'
Jamie Lee Curtis shared her brutally honest opinion of plastic surgery after going under the knife at the age of 25.
While there is certainly still a taboo surrounding cosmetic surgery, a lot more celebrities these days have spoken candidly about the procedures they have undergone.
Curtis, 67, has opened up about having plastic surgery in her 20s - something which she now regrets. Heck, the actor feels it has 'wiped out a generation'.
Speaking on 60 Minutes earlier this year, Curtis said she decided to have plastic surgery after comments from a cinematographer regarding her appearance on the set of the 1985 movie Perfect.
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"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 star recalled.
"So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery."
Curtis soon 'regretted' the surgery however, as she added: "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."
So, the star is now spending her time being a voice for other women who may be considering plastic 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 said.
In July, Curtis called it 'the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex'.
The actor told 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 claimed 'it is aided and abetted by AI' as 'now the filter face is what people want'.
Curtis added: "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."
Curtis previously spoke to TODAY about having plastic surgery and the regret that has followed in the years since.
"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 since told two daughters, Annie, 39, and Ruby, 29, not to 'mess with your face'.
Back in 2021, the Hollywood star sat down with Fast Company to talk about society's seeming 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 said.
"Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back."
Despite her opinion about plastic surgery now, Curtis revealed back in 2002 that she underwent Botox and liposuction treatments.
Topics: Jamie Lee Curtis, Celebrity, Hollywood
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