Embracing AGE

IN A SEA OF SMOOTH FACES, SOME STARS REFUSE TO GIVE IN TO UNREALISTIC BEAUTY STANDARDS

JAMIE LEE CURTIS

The actress, 64, has admitted she began tinkering with her face in her twenties (after a cameraman told her she had puffy eyes), but now she says she’s pro-ageing. “I did plastic surgery,” Curtis said in October. “I put Botox in my head. Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine. Walk a mile in my shoes. I have done it. It did not work. And all I see is people now focusing their life on that.”

She went further in an interview with Fast Company, lamenting “the current trend of fillers and procedures, and this obsession with filtering” and warning it’s “wiping out generations of beauty. Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”

NAOMI WATTS

Having launched Stripes, a beauty brand focused on tackling the symptoms of and stigma around menopause, the Australian actress and entrepreneur, 54, says she’s inspired by those who embrace their age. “I look at women like Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon – multiple fantastic, talented, intelligent people and I’m just so impressed by them.”

For Watts, getting any cosmetic enhancements isn’t a priority … yet. “I’ve done plenty of research and have gotten close at times and thought about doing it,” she has admitted to InStyle. “And that’s not to say that I won’t one day. If I knew I could look great and just like myself but less tired, I’d happily do what needs to be done.”