Jamie Lee Curtis has spoken about a choice she made in her twenties that still hangs over her—having cosmetic surgery after a brutal remark on a film set made her feel embarrassed. The award-winning actress has said the experience had a lasting effect, one she still regrets.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Curtis described how the comment arrived while filming the 1985 movie Perfect. "(The cinematographer) was like: 'Yeah, I'm not going to shoot her today. Her eyes are baggy.' And I was 25?" she recalled. "So, for him to say that was highly embarrassing. So as soon as the film was over, I ended up getting some plastic surgery."
When asked what happened, she did not hesitate. "Not good. That's just not what you don't want to do when you're 25 or 26," she replied matter-of-factly. "And I instantly regretted that and have kind of sort of regretted it since… Way too so now because I've become a very public spokesperson to say to women: 'You're beautiful and you're perfect the way you are.' So oh, yeah I. it was not a good thing for me to do."
The recovery from the surgery also followed a more sinister turn. Curtis spoke of it as opening up her door to painkillers, which soon turned into a full-blown addiction.
"They give them [pain killers] to you. I grew enormously fond of the warm bath of an opiate," she admitted. "You know, (I) took a little bit … never to excess, never any big public demonstrations, I was very quiet, very private about it but it became a dependency for sure."
Though she freely discussed addiction, Curtis laughed and said that at one time, she worried more that performing as a spokesperson for Activia yogurt would damage her career than the reality of her own struggles with drug use.
"I think I was more concerned that selling yogurt that makes you was gonna ruin my career than for me to say that I had an addiction. I crack the joke. It's a funny joke but it's the truth," she joked.
However, Curtis thinks that those TV commercial jobs were not for naught. They made her to concentrate on what mattered most—her family.
"For the most part (those jobs). they let me work from home and have my children," she said. "So. I am not a perfect, you know, working mother because no perfect working mothers are perfect … We find a way. We think we've done it. The reality is we do feel guilty.".
Reflecting back on her experience, she added, "But I know how much time away from them I spent in pursuit of my own creativity."
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