After warning that “a generation of women have been disfigured” by cosmetic procedures, Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis is unapologetically embracing her natural beauty and urging others to do the same.
Jamie Lee Curtis has long been outspoken about the pressures placed on women to conform to unrealistic beauty standards.
In a July 2025 interview with the Guardian, the 67-year-old Everything Everywhere All at Once star didn’t hold back in her criticism of the cosmetic surgery industry.
She revealed she once underwent plastic surgery herself – an experience she quickly came to regret. “It was not a good thing for me to do,” she admitted.
In the interview, she is also pictured wearing oversized red wax lips, which she described as her “statement against plastic surgery.”
Baggy eyes
Curtis, who rose to fame in the late 1970s, traced her decision to get surgery back to an incident on the set of the 1985 film Perfect.
During a segment on 60 Minutes, she recalled how a cinematographer refused to film her because “Her eyes are baggy.”
“I was so mortified and so embarrassed and had just so much shame about it that after that movie, I went and had routine plastic surgery to remove the puffiness,” Curtis told Variety, per CNN, about her decision as a 25-year-old.
‘Plastic figurine’
But the results left her disillusioned. “I did plastic surgery. I put Botox in my head. Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine,” she told TODAY in 2023.
“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.”
Her message to others became direct and personal: “Don’t mess with your face.”
‘Disfigured’ women
Since then, the Freaky Friday star has become a passionate voice for women, especially younger generations, speaking out against what she calls the damaging influence of the beauty industry.
In her Guardian interview, she warned of what she calls “the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves.”
“I’ve used that word for a long time,” she said of using “genocide.” “I use it specifically because it’s a strong word. 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,” the Halloween star explained.
‘Filter face’
Curtis also pointed to modern digital tools as worsening the issue.
“It is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want,” she said. “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.”
She warned that these shifting standards carry real consequences. “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.”
‘You can’t get it back’
This isn’t the first time the actress has expressed concern over society’s fixation on appearance.
In a 2021 interview with Fast Company, per CNN, she voiced similar thoughts. “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 shared. “Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”
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