Why Jamie Lee Curtis Had Plastic Surgery At 25

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17-05-2025

Warning: Discussion of substance abuse.
You know Jamie Lee Curtis.
You might know her from the Halloween franchise, Freaky Friday, or her Academy Award-winning performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once. It all depends on which generation you most identify with, doesn't it?
I'm sure you've seen this questionably spicy scene on your timelines before, too?
It's from Jamie's 1985 movie, Perfect.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Jamie revealed what prompted her to undergo a plastic surgery procedure while working on this movie, and the reason is rather painful.
The two-time Golden Globe winner said in the interview that she had plastic surgery at the age of 25 after a comment from a cinematopgrapher on the set of Perfect. "He was like, 'Yeah, I'm not shooting her today," Jamie said. "Her eyes are baggy."
"And I was 25, so for him to say that, it was very embarrassing," Jamie explained in the interview. "So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery."
Jamie said the surgery didn't go as planned, and it's something that she regrets now. "That's just not what you want to do when you're 25 or 26. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of sort of regretted it since," she said.
Her regret lies in the fact that today, she's an advocate for embracing your natural beauty. "I've become a really public advocate to say to women you're gorgeous and you're perfect the way you are. So yeah, it was not a good thing for me to do."
In the interview, Jamie also revealed that she developed a dependence on painkillers following her plastic surgery. 'Well, they give them to you!' she said. "I became very enamored with the warm bath of an opiate. You know, drank a little bit … never to access, never any big public demonstrations. I was very quiet, very private about it, but it became a dependency for sure."
This isn't the first time Jamie spoke about her past with addictions and plastic surgery. In 2021, she told Fast Company, "I tried plastic surgery and it didn't work. It got me addicted to Vicodin," she said at the time of the interview. "I'm 22 years sober now."
"The current trend of fillers and procedures, and this obsession with filtering, and the things that we do to adjust our appearance on Zoom are wiping out generations of beauty," she continued. "Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back."
Look, Jamie's been in the game for a minute, and one thing she's going to do is keep it real about her journey and experience, and that's why she's held it down from '80s scream queen and beyond.
Watch the full interview here:
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