Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery
Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery originally appeared on Parade.
Helen Mirren may be an icon of Hollywood, but the legendary actress has dealt with the same ridiculous requests as the rest of the women in her industry.
Mirren, 79, sat down with several other heavy hitters like Keri Russell, Parker Posey, and Kathy Bates for The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress Roundtable, and recalled being told that she should go under the knife for plastic surgery when she was younger.
"I was told to have a nose job in my 20s," Mirren told her fellow actresses. "Someone said, 'You'll never get work if you don't have a nose job.' I said no. I didn't want to be a pretty actress anyway. I elected to be not so pretty."
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The other stars, including Cristin Milioti and Niecy Nash-Betts, jumped in to tell Mirren how stunning she is.
"First of all, too late. Because you are," Nash-Betts replied.
Bates also joined in the conversation about terrible advice, noting that she was once advised to hide her cancer diagnosis.
"I had ovarian cancer in 2003, and my agent said, 'Don't tell anybody. You don't want to be the poster child for ovarian cancer.' I think if I had come out at that point, maybe it would have helped some people. Because when I had breast cancer in 2012, speaking up helped people. I regret not doing that 'the first time.' Because I went underground," she recalled. "I was on the board at the Academy, and I called them and said, 'I can't come to any of the meetings.' I just hid for a whole year. So it was bad advice, career and personal."Helen Mirren, 79, Recalls Being Told To Have Plastic Surgery first appeared on Parade on May 30, 2025
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