Jamie Lee Curtis believes cosmetic procedures are wiping out 'a generation of beauty'

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By Nika Shakhnazarova

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Jamie Lee Curtis has criticized the increase in women getting plastic surgery in a desperate bid to meet beauty standards.

Speaking to Fast Company, the Halloween star shared her own experience of going ahead with a cosmetic procedure in the past.

"I tried plastic surgery and it didn't work. It got me addicted to Vicodin. I'm 22 years sober now," she revealed.

What's more, Curtis slammed the popularity of altering one's appearance, adding: "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.

Watch Jamie Lee Curtis open up about her past addiction to Vicodin:

"Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back," she added.

Curtis also described social media as "a real danger to young people".

Elaborating on her comments, she said: "It's like giving a chain saw to a toddler. We just don’t know the longitudinal effect, mentally, spiritually, and physically, on a generation of young people who are in agony because of social media, because of the comparisons to others.

"All of us who are old enough know that it’s all a lie."

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Curtis also said that she prefers to stay off websites such as Twitter and Facebook: "I use social media to sell things and amplify things I care about. Period. The rest is cancer. I never read one comment."

In 2019, she was featured in Variety's Recovery issue and said she had "routine surgery" after a cameraman said: "I'm not shooting her today. Her eyes are too puffy."

"I was so mortified and so embarrassed and had just so much shame about it that after that movie, I went and had routine plastic surgery to remove the puffiness," she said, before explaining that she'd had puffy eyes since childhood.

"They gave me Vicodin as a painkiller for something that wasn't really painful."

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