Why Jamie Lee Curtis Regrets Getting Plastic Surgery at 25
isn't claiming to be perfect.
The Freaky Friday actress detailed how a comment made by a cinematographer on the set of her 1985 film Perfect costarring John Travolta pushed her to undergo plastic surgery.
"He was like, 'Yeah I'm not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy,'" Jamie Lee recalled in a May 11 interview with 60 Minutes. "I was 25. For him to say that was very embarrassing. So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery."
"Not well," she added when she was asked how it went. "That's just not what you want to do when you're 25 or 26. I regretted it immediately and have kind of, sort of regretted it since."
The Oscar winner added that she has "way" more remorse for her decision now.
That's because, as Jamie Lee explained, "I've become a really public advocate to say to women, 'You're gorgeous and you're perfect the way you are,' so... oh, yeah. It was not a good thing for me to do."
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The 66-year-old had previously revealed that Gordon Willis, an Oscar-nominated cinematographer who died in 2014, was behind the devastating comment and pinpointed it as a the moment that her struggles with addiction began.
"Right after that movie I went and had an eye job," she told The New Yorker in 2019. "That's when I found Vicodin, and the cycle of addiction began with that."
The Everything Everywhere All At Once star told 60 Minutes that she's 26 years sober now before further elaborating on her substance abuse issues.
"I became very enamored with the warm bath of an opiate," she said. "You know, drank a little bit, never to excess, never any big public demonstrations. I was very quiet, very private about it. But it it became a dependency for sure."
Jamie Lee also called attention to the iconic scene from Perfect where she wears a leotard while teaching a fitness class.
"Of course, I look really good in a leotard," she noted. "Believe me, I've seen enough pictures of me in that leotard where even I go like, 'Really? Come on.'"
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