Overview

• On July 28 Jamie Lee Curtis posed for The Guardian’s Saturday magazine wearing oversized wax lips to dramatize her protest against the cosmetic surgery industry.
• She declared that surgical and chemical beauty procedures amount to a “genocide of a generation of women” by erasing one or two generations of natural human appearance.
• Curtis warned that AI-driven beauty filters have intensified the obsession with physical perfection by promoting a “false” ideal of beauty.
• The actress drew on her own experience of eye-bag removal surgery at age 20 and subsequent opioid addiction to highlight the personal costs of altering one’s appearance.
• Reflecting on Hollywood’s ageism, she cited her parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as examples of industry pressure that drove women to pursue cosmetic alterations.