Like many celebrities, Jamie Lee Curtis fought her natural looks to fit Hollywood’s expectations. However, as she got older, she learned a valuable lesson: fans commended her on social media.
At the peak of Jamie Lee Curtis’s career, she was one of Hollywood’s beauties. However, some things that made the actress think she was that way included experimenting with her body and appearance.
Even though she was already beautiful, she wanted an unattainable standard chased by women in general because of society’s expectations. During her October 12, 2021, appearance on “Lorraine,” she touched on some of the things she’s done to beautify herself.
Curtis confessed to the host that she’d had plastic surgery, but it didn’t work, and she “I hated it. It made me feel worse!” than before. She also revealed how she’d tried all procedures that could be done to the hair, but:
“Personally, I felt it was humiliating.”
The star hated the chemical smell in hair salons, the feeling of the coloring on her hair, the worn garments, and sitting under the hair dryer! Early in her career, she sported a perm but had to dye her hair for a movie, which got burnt.
In a March 2022 Instagram post, Curtis also shared how she’d started sucking her stomach at age 11. That was when she began becoming conscious of bodies and boys; plus, during that time, jeans were made to be “super tight.”
In 2002, the star was featured in More magazine, where she unashamedly showed off her body – “flaws” and all. She admitted to having huge breasts and a fat, soft stomach saying she wasn’t “glam Jamie, the perfect Jamie, the great figure.”
Curtis said the image presented about her in the media was a “fraud,” and she was the one who was perpetuating it. The actress revealed how she had some fat taken from under her eyes because she looked puffy in a movie.
She had the procedure done around 1992 before other people did the process. Curtis recalled the camera complaining that he couldn’t shoot her because of how she looked, leaving her “mortified.”
The star said she’d had some liposuction and Botox before but felt none of the procedures worked and were frauds. However, a defining moment led her to become a body positivity advocate.
The first time she cut her hair short because it burned, Curtis was pleasantly surprised and felt she finally looked like herself! That’s when she stopped dying it and became an advocate of having a natural face; and shared how she didn’t understand the hype about anti-aging products, adding:
“And the term, anti-aging… what? What are you talking about?”
The actress felt the term and products didn’t make sense because we would all age at some point and die no matter what! The Hollywood star was baffled by the whole idea, stating:
“Why do you want to look 17 when you’re 70? I want to look 70 when I’m 70.”
In March 2008, Curtis revealed to People magazine that she preferred natural hair. Her crown started going gray in her mid-40s, but it surprisingly gave her more confidence than ever!
The actress explained that she believed she’d finally found what she hoped was beauty for her. Christopher Guest, her husband, once noted how Jessica Tandy, dressed in a simple dress and gray-haired, was the most beautiful woman among the spruced-up celebrities, and Curtis agreed.