Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, Criticizes Botox: ‘You Look Like a Plastic Figurine’
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Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, criticized Botox in a new interview.
“Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine,” she said.
The actress has previously spoken out about being “pro-aging.”
We already know that Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, is pro-aging all the way—meaning she has no tolerance for beauty standards that aim to erase evidence of life, like wrinkles and lines. So it comes as no surprise that the actress isn’t a fan of Botox. She recently spoke to Today about her experience with the procedure, and the advice she gives to her daughters about aging.
“I did plastic surgery,” the Halloween Ends actress said. “I put Botox in my head. Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine.”
She hopes her experience will set an example for not just her daughters, but other people younger than her. “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,” she added.
In March, Curtis shared a similar sentiment with Maria Shriver for the Radically Reframing Aging Summit presented by Sounds True and Shriver Media. “This word ‘anti-aging’ has to be struck. I am pro-aging,” she said. “I want to age with intelligence and grace and dignity and verve and energy.”
She continued: “I don’t want to hide from [my age] as if it’s a bad thing. We’re all learning that people are on fire from it. It’s an inside job, we’re so confused on the outside, but the joy of being my age is an inside infrastructure.”
To counteract the pressure to age a certain way, Curtis chooses to focus on making a difference—for instance, with her non-profit My Hand in Yours, which donates all proceeds to Los Angeles’ Children’s Hospital. And she encourages others—including her daughters—to do the same.
“I want them to be satisfied,” she said, referring to her family. “I want them to feel that what they’re doing matters, that what they’re doing has value.”
Curtis herself has proven there’s value in age by defying her Hollywood “sell-by date” and acting in some huge successes over the last few years, including Halloween Kills, Knives Out, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
“I have a motto now, as I am past that sell-by date, which is, ‘If not now, when? If not me, who?’ I say it to myself every single day,” she told InStyle in January. “And after more than 40 years in the business, I am busier today than I have ever been in my entire life.”
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