Lee Curtis on Hollywood PS

[Guest guest]

hits out at Hollywood's 'botox aliens'

by HENRY MELLER, Daily Mail

She isn't the first Hollywood star to take on the aliens.

However, Lee Curtis is declaring war not on extra-

terrestrials, but on her fellow actresses - who she says look less

than human because of plastic surgery.

" It is an epidemic which is out of control, " declared the 46-year-

old. " The way they are injecting things and freezing things. People

are looking like aliens. "

Miss Lee Curtis herself is no stranger to surgical enhancement -

having in the past had Botox jabs and liposuction. But the star of A

Fish Called Wanda, Trading Places and True Lies swears she would

never do it again.

" It didn't work when I tried it because it didn't work emotionally -

it felt fraudulent, " she said. " It felt like the act of doing it

made me feel ashamed of myself that I would even try. "

It was not just the psychological effects of plastic surgery that

left her unimpressed. " I tried the lipo and that comes back in other

places. And I tried the Botox and that doesn't work because you have

no expression. All these actresses now have foreheads like Madame

Tussaud's wax museum.

" There is an actress who many consider one of the most beautiful and

you look at her and you think, 'What did she do to herself?' She

doesn't look like herself any more. I would never try it ever, ever

again. "

Although she refused to name the actress, she could take her pick

from a host of contemporaries including Meg , Goldie Hawn and

Demi - all of whom have noticeably altered their appearance on

the operating table.

Miss Lee Curtis tells how her husband and fellow actor

Guest gave her the best perspective on Hollywood beauty.

" He said to me at the Golden Globe awards one year, 'Do you know who

the most beautiful woman in the room is?' and of course I wanted him

to say me. And he said, 'Her' and pointed over to a table and there

was Tandy.

" She was 82 and she looked beautiful. He was absolutely right. I

have taken that to heart. "

In 2002, the actress attempted to highlight the myth of the perfect

Hollywood body by posing for a photo-shoot in a sports bra and

briefs, without the benefit of makeup or airbrushing.

Saying she did not want " the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the

world " to be deceived, the star who played a stunning aerobics

instructor in the 1985 film Perfect and did a famous striptease in

True Lies, said of the resulting images: " I don't have great thighs.

I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got

back fat. "

Her criticism of cosmetic procedures follows an American Medical

Association report which revealed that plastic surgery among young

people in the U.S. has reached record levels.

Meanwhile, men have overtaken women in the vanity stakes, according

to research.

More males than females now feel that time spent on their personal

appearance is important. But at the same time, they are still

determined to remain macho, according to independent market analysts

Datamonitor.

It found 73 per cent of European and U.S. men feel that spending

time on personal appearance is 'important' or 'very important' to

them, compared with 72 per cent of women.

But analyst Bone said even though men are becoming

more 'metrosexual' many still 'don't want to be seen to be trying

too hard' when it comes to anything perceived as vaguely effeminate.

The European and U.S. male personal care market will be worth around

£21billion by 2008.

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