Overview

• Curtis accused the cosmeceutical industrial complex of committing a “genocide of a generation of women” through surgical and chemical alterations that replace natural features.
• She linked the rise of AI-powered facial filters to the growing normalization of plastic surgery and injectable treatments.
• In the Guardian interview’s photoshoot, the 66-year-old Oscar winner used oversized red wax lips as a visual protest against beauty mandates.
• Reflecting on her immediate regret over a procedure at age 25, Curtis has become a public advocate for natural aging and self-acceptance.
• Drawing on her parents’ experiences with industry ageism, she reaffirmed her three-decade “self-retiring” plan to exit Hollywood before bias sidelines her.