Iconic Actress, 66, Says Plastic Surgery ‘Disfigured’ a ‘Generation of Women’ originally appeared on Parade.
Legendary actress Jamie Lee Curtis is not backing down when it comes to her thoughts on plastic surgery. The Oscar winner, 66, opened up about how she feels plastic surgery has “disfigured” a “generation of women,” and even went as far as to call this a “genocide.”
“I’ve been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves,” the Halloween star told The Guardian through an email via her publicist for a recent interview with the outlet.
Curtis posed for a photo shoot to accompany the feature and she posed specifically wearing a pair of wax lips, telling the outlet the choice of prop “really sends it home” when it comes to her point about elective surgeries. She then focused on explaining her use of the word “genocide.”
“I’ve used that word for a long time and I use it specifically because it’s a strong word,” the iconic nepo baby told the outlet. “I believe that we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human [appearance].”
She went on to even invoke her feelings on AI and how those things coincide to warp perception. “The concept that you can alter the way you look throughchemicals, surgical procedures, fillers — there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances. And it is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want,” Curtis said, noting that filters are “better” to some, but “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,” the Freakier Friday star noted before adding that she doesn’t blame anyone who has undergone elective surgeries. “It doesn’t matter. I’m not proselytising to them.”
She added, “I would never say a word. I would never say to someone: what have you done? All I know is that it is a never-ending cycle. That, I know. Once you start, you can’t stop. But it’s not my job to give my opinion; it’s none of my business.”
At the end of the day, it’s clear Curtis’ heart is in the right place because she herself was affected by societal beauty standards on a job, which caused her, too, to undergo cosmetic surgery. “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,” she explained of her experience with a cinematographer on the 1985 film Perfect while appearing on an episode of 60 Minutes in May.
“So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery,” Curtis revealed. “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.”
Curtis can be seen on screen next in Freakier Friday, a sequel film to the 2003 Freaky Friday remake that starred herself and Lindsay Lohan.
Iconic Actress, 66, Says Plastic Surgery ‘Disfigured’ a ‘Generation of Women’ first appeared on Parade on Jul 28, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 28, 2025, where it first appeared.
