Jamie Lee Curtis had plastic surgery at 25 following comments from cinematographer
In a new interview, Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she got plastic surgery at 25 in response to a cinematographer who refused to film her because he didn’t like her face.
On the set of the 1985 movie Perfect, starring John Travolta and directed by James Bridges, Curtis was told by the cinematographer, “I am not shooting her today because her eyes are baggy.”
Curtis said in a new interview with 60 Minutes that she took the movie “very seriously” as an actor. In it, she plays an aerobics instructor who meets a journalist (Travolta) during his investigation into fitness clubs. In response to the cinematographer’s comments, she got plastic surgery as soon as the shooting wrapped. “For him to say that was very embarrassing,” she stated.
The Freaky Friday actor said the surgery did “not [go] well.” She elaborated: “That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26. I regretted immediately and have regretted it since. [I regret it] way so now because I’ve become a really public advocate to women to say, ‘You’re gorgeous and perfect the way you are.’ It was not a good thing for me to do…”
She continued recalling the experience: “They give you pain killers. I became very enamoured with the warm bath of an opioid. Drank a little bit. I was very quiet and private about it. But it became a dependency for sure.” The actor has been sober now for 26 years.
In January, the Academy Award-winning actor donated $1 million to tackle the wildfires that raged across Los Angeles. She said then: “My husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million from our Family Foundation to start a fund of support for our great city and state and the great people who live and love there.”
Curtis is soon set to reprise her role in Freaky Friday alongside Lindsay Lohan. The film, Freakier Friday, will arrive before the end of 2025 in cinemas worldwide.
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