At 64, Jamie Lee Curtis Slams Retouching and ‘Filters’: ‘We Are Not AI’

• Jamie Lee Curtis reveals thoughts on AI and image retouching in Hollywood.

• The 64-year-old shared her thoughts on Instagram in response to singer Karol G’s latest GQ cover, in which the Colombian singer says her appearance was altered.

• “We are human beings. We are not AI and this genocide against what is naturally beautiful is alarming and needs to be talked about,” Curtis wrote.

Jamie Lee Curtis has long been outspoken about what she calls an ongoing “genocide” on natural beauty. The actress laments the societal pressure to undergo cosmetic procedures and filter selfies just to keep up with youth-centric beauty trends—especially in Hollywood—which is why she’s impressed to see “younger” celebrity Karol G share her point of view. In a recent Instagram, the Colombian singer called attention to her April/May GQ Mexico cover, claiming the image used misrepresents her, and Curtis applauded the 32-year-old for speaking up.

“I’m so happy that @karolg is bringing awareness to an issue I have been concerned about for a long time,” Curtis wrote, resharing the GQ cover. “We are human beings. We are not AI and this genocide against what is naturally beautiful is alarming and needs to be talked about.”

Curtis continued, praising her fellow advocates Andie MacDowell and Justine Bateman for being comrades in the celebration of natural beauty. “There are a few people being very vocal like @_justinebateman_ and @andiemacdowell and myself and I’m very encouraged that a younger person is joining the chorus of disapproval,” the 64-year-old wrote. “The cosmeceutical industrial complex wants you to look in the mirror and hate yourself and then buy their bullshit.”

Curtis’ followers rallied behind her in the comments section. “What is wrong with being your natural self?” one person commented. “I cannot fathom why ANY edits were needed,” another added. “Natural is beautiful,” someone else wrote.

This mentality of Curtis’ goes hand in hand with her impassioned pro-aging stance. She is a firm believer that the term anti-aging “has to be struck,” as she put it during a conversation with Maria Shriver last year, and she is staunchly against procedures like Botox and plastic surgery.

In fact, in a 2021 interview with Fast Company, Curtis claimed that plastic surgery specifically is “wiping out generations of beauty,” adding: “Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.” Last year, she told Today that she tried Botox once and doesn’t plan on revisiting it. “Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine,” she quipped.

Even in her own spotlight photoshoots, Curtis has bared it all, posing nude in a recent New York Times shoot, as well as wearing fishnet tights and a one-piece swimsuit with no intention to hide her flaws. In the accompanying interview, she discussed her mission not to conceal her body on-screen, either, particularly for her Oscar-winning role as Deirdre Beaubeirdra in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

“I said I would like to not be sucking my stomach in for the entire movie, because I’m a 64-year-old woman,” she said, referring to Beaubeirdra. In a March 2022 Instagram, she elaborated on the intent, writing: “My instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.”

And that’s natural beauty. It really is that simple.

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