Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals Plastic Surgery Regret After Getting Cosmetic Work in Her 20s
The incident took place when a cinematographer on her 1985 film, Perfect, allegedly refused to film the actress over how her face looked.
'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,' Jamie Lee, 66, explained during a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday, May 11. 'So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.'
The Oscar winner wasn't happy with her decision.
'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,' Jamie Lee shared.
As a result of her experience, the Halloween Kills star has embraced aging gracefully.
'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 added about her cosmetic work.
Jamie Lee played an ultra-fit aerobics instructor in Perfect, where she starred opposite John Travolta.
The Freaky Friday star previously revealed in a 2021 interview how after getting plastic surgery, she developed an addiction to painkillers.
'I tried plastic surgery, and it didn't work. It got me addicted to Vicodin,' she told Fast Company. 'I'm 22 years sober now.'
"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. Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back," Jamie Lee said about beauty standards.
It wasn't just plastic surgery that caused Jamie to become "an advocate for natural beauty," as she described herself during an October 2021 appearance on the U.K. talk show Lorraine.
Jamie Lee said she decided to go with a super short hairstyle after years of "humiliating" experiences dealing with her locks.
"I tried to do everything you can do to your hair," she explained. "Personally, I felt it humiliating. I would go into a hair salon, the smell of the chemicals, the feeling of that color on my hair, the wearing the things, sitting under the hair dryer, I was like, 'For what?'"
"So very early on in my career, I had a perm and then had to dye my hair for a movie, and it burned my hair off my head. And the first time I cut my hair short, I went, 'Oh, oh, my God. Oh wow, I look like me,'" she shared.
Jamie Lee revealed how she decided to stop coloring her hair and embraced going gray.
"Since then, I also stopped dyeing it and then I've also been an advocate for not f--king with your face," she told host Lorraine Kelly.
"And the term anti-aging. What? What are you talking about? We're all going to f--king age. We're all going to die. Why do you want to look 17 when you're 70? I want to look 70 when I'm 70!" Jamie Lee declared.
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