Lindsay Lohan Details Freakier Friday Reunion With Jamie Lee Curtis (Exclusive)
After growing up in Hollywood, Jamie Lee Curtis has no problem leaving the industry behind.
In fact, the Oscar winner—the daughter of the late Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh—revealed she's been "self-retiring for 30 years," only choosing roles that truly pique her interest.
"I have been prepping to get out, so that I don’t have to suffer the same as my family did," Jamie Lee explained to The Guardian in an interview published July 26. "I want to leave the party before I’m no longer invited.”
She continued, "I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age. I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone. And that’s very painful."
Now 66, Jamie Lee considers herself to be an "old lady," joking to the outlet, “I’m going to die soon."
And that's why the Freakier Friday star quipped that she's "become quite brusque" these days when it comes setting boundaries about her work schedule.
"I don’t give a s--t any more," Jamie Lee said, adding that she also has "no problem saying, ‘Back the f--k off.’”
Likewise, she has the same approach when it comes to beauty standards.
"There are many, many actresses who love the dress up, who love clothes, who love fashion, who love being a model. I. Hate. It," emphasized Jamie Lee, who has been vocal about her regret to get plastic surgery during her 20s. "The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers—there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances."
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But that's not to say she's against other women who choose to go under the knife. As she put it, "I’m not proselytizing to them. I would never say a word. I would never say to someone: what have you done?"
"All I know is that it is a never-ending cycle," Jamie Lee added. "Once you start, you can’t stop. But it’s not my job to give my opinion; it’s none of my business."
For more celebrities sharing their thoughts on aging in Hollywood, keep reading...
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Heidi Klum
"I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's okay. Life is about change," she told Self.
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Cameron Diaz
"There's no such thing as anti-aging. We're all aging, period. Women take it as something personal that they are getting older. They think that they failed somehow by not staying 25. This is crazy to me because my belief is that it's a privilege to get older—not everybody gets to get older," she told Access Hollywood.
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Kate Beckinsale
"Historically when women have made strides of some type, culturally things rise up to oppress them. Right now I feel like we've made a lot of strides, but nobody's allowed to age or look pregnant. I feel all of that stuff has gotten worse. It's a brilliant way to keep people enslaved, by having them horrified by themselves. Well I refuse to feel shame about being human," she told the Los Angeles Times.
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Jennifer Lopez
"When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting," she told Harper's Bazaar.
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Cindy Crawford
"I'm actually happier with my body now… because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's," she told Popsugar.
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Drew Barrymore
"Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They're a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart. If my breasts fall down to the floor and everything starts to sag, becoming hideous and gross, I won't worry," as she told Bustle.
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Madonna
"F--k you. I'm 50. That's what I'm going to say when I turn 50. Sorry," as she told Popsugar.
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Diane Keaton
"Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets," as the told PopSugar.
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Helen Mirren
"When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it," she told Bustle.
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Jennifer Garner
"I do think about ageing. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much," she told Marie Claire UK.
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Celine Dion
"There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty," she told Ok! Magazine.
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Penelope Cruz
"Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead," as she told MarieClaire.
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Kate Winslet
"I'm baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves," she told Net-a-Porter Magazine.
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Oprah Winfrey
"People who lie about their age are denying the truth and contributing to a sickness pervading our society—the sickness of wanting to be what you're not.... I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life," she wrote in O Magazine.
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Diane Von Furstenberg
"Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.... In my older face, I see my life. Every wrinkle, every smile line, every age spot. There is a saying that with age, you look outside what you are inside. If you are someone who never smiles, your face gets saggy. If you're a person who smiles a lot, you will have more smile lines. Your wrinkles reflect the roads you have taken; they form the map of your life. My face reflects the wind and sun and rain and dust from the trips I've taken. My face carries all my memories. Why should I erase them?" she told Vogue.
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Reese Witherspoon
"But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin," she told Glamour.
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