Appearing more youthful than you really are is not something Jamie Lee Curtis is interested in.
The Halloween star opened up about the pressure women face to keep up appearances, especially in Hollywood, as she admitted to disliking the term "anti-aging".
Speaking on British morning show Lorraine, the actress, 62, said she's been a long-time advocate for natural beauty after succumbing to plastic surgery in the past.
"I have been an advocate for natural beauty for a long time, mostly because I've had the trial and error of the other part," she said.
"I did plastic surgery — it didn't work. I hated it. It made me feel worse. I tried to do everything you can do with your hair."
"Personally it felt humiliating. I would go into the nail salon, the smell of the chemicals, the feeling of that color on my hair, the wearing the thing, sitting under the hairdryer. I was like, for what?"
Curtis has certainly experimented with her hair over the decades - going from brunette to a long blonde hairdo, before finally landing on her signature short cut.
"Very early on in my career, I had a perm and then had to dye my hair for a movie and it burned my hair off my head," she explained.
"The first time I cut my hair short, I went, 'Oh! Oh my god. Oh, wow. I look like me.'"
Since then, she's also stopped dying her hair brown — pivoting away from her iconic look made famous in 1994's True Lies, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I've also been an advocate for not f***ing with your face," Curtis added. "And the term 'anti-aging.' What? What are you talking about? We're all going to f****ing age. We’re all gonna die. Why do you want to look 17 when you're 70? I want to look 70 when I'm 70!"
It comes as the actress 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."
"Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back," she added.
