Jamie Lee Curtis was 19 when she made her film debut in Halloween in 1978. In a recent interview, the actress, 67, opened up about the pressure to have plastic surgery, admitting she felt “not pretty” compared to others. Keep reading to find out more about her experience in Hollywood and why she thinks it’s all “fakery.”
Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Bittersweet Family News
Jamie Lee Curtis has been married to screenwriter Christopher Guest since 1984. They share two daughters. The actress was a guest on Michelle Obama’s podcast and spilled some bittersweet family news that she’d been keeping secret for months.
One of her daughters, Annie, had a baby in December, making Jamie Lee Curtis a grandmother. However, the birth was at a heartbreaking time for the family and the entertainment industry. The baby was born a week after Rob and Michele Reiner were murdered in their home. The movie director and his wife’s son, Nick Reiner, was arrested. He’s in jail awaiting trial on murder charges.
To make the situation even sadder, Rob and Michele Reiner are Annie Guest’s godparents. “They died on her birthday. My beautiful daughter, who loved them, as we all did, managed to be able to metabolize that grief and sadness as we all have had to do,” Jamie Lee Curtis said about the heartbreaking loss.
With her daughter’s permission, Jamie Lee Curtis broke the baby news on the former First Lady’s podcast.
Actress Admits Feeling ‘Not Pretty’ Amid Multiple Plastic Surgeries
Jamie Lee Curtis starred in seven Halloween movies, earning the nickname “Scream Queen.” But her impressive film credits go beyond the horror movie franchise. Her sexy and funny striptease in True Lies is iconic. But the actress admitted on the IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson podcast that she was “never pretty.”
“Now, I’ve never been pretty. And I’m saying it out loud … I wasn’t pretty like that. I wasn’t pretty the way girls are pretty … And that’s very important for me because that was never the thing I relied on,” she said.
The actress candidly admitted that she “succumbed” to plastic surgery. “I’ve sucked the fat, I’ve cut the fat. I’ve tried to do the things that people do that everybody’s doing, and it doesn’t work.”
Jamie Lee Curtis said plastic surgery doesn’t work because you’re still the same person after the surgery. She added, “I think it actually makes you feel fraudulent, and I think that it creates self-hatred. And for me, accepting that I look the way I look is part of self-love.”
Now that she’s seen the light, she blasted Hollywood’s “fakery.” “It’s what we used to call airbrushing is now just filtering. It’s all fakery,” the actress said.
Jamie Lee Curtis tried plastic surgery and didn’t like it. She now embraces her looks, earning major praise from fans for aging naturally.
Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger
