Drew Barrymore Says She's "Never Messed With My Face" And Wants Women To Know "Aging Is Safe And Awesome"
Just about every celebrity we see in Hollywood has altered their face in some way, and there are even people who have gotten work done on their face as young as 18 years old. But Drew Barrymore, 47, is going against the grain and encouraging other women to do the same.
It's all too easy these days to find women who have had lip fillers, Botox, or even a nose job. Women in their 20s are even getting treatments done on their face under the premise of preventing aging. But Drew Barrymore wants women to consider aging gracefully. In an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, she sat down with Jamie Lee Curtis to speak about the anti-aging culture that surrounds women today. They both spoke about the power of allowing yourself to look natural as you get older.
Drew Barrymore Says She's "Never Messed with My Face" and Wants Women To Know "Aging Is Safe and Awesome"
Jamie has always spoken out against the obsession with anti-aging, and she explained to Drew why she doesn't even like using that term. "There's a genocide of natural beauty out there, and I don't need to point fingers or... but there are charlatans and fakers and people who are selling BS to unsuspecting women who are old enough to know better, and teens who aren't," she says. "Because we have lost touch as a society about what is beauty. Beauty has become something that can be doctored and filtered and injected and peeled and stripped away, and the truth is you can't."
There's certainly a lot of truth to this, and ironically, the women who get all the procedures done on their face actually end up looking older than they actually are. Kylie Jenner doesn't look 25 years old, for example. Even worse, all of the women who get the fillers and injections done end up looking exactly the same. It's difficult to find women who embrace their natural beauty without feeling the need to alter their face.
Jamie told Drew a story of attending the Golden Globes with her husband, Chris Guest. She said she was feeling insecure and was trying to pose and look good for the camera and the people around her. Chris pointed out that Jessica Tandy, who was 80 years old at the time, was the most beautiful woman in the room. Jamie looked over and saw that she was wearing minimal makeup with pink lipstick, and she just seemed comfortable and content with herself. And that's where she believes the real beauty comes from.
"I've never messed with my face," Drew says in agreement with Jamie.
"I can tell!" Jamie says.
"I don’t want to fight nature. I’m raising two daughters, and we were raised in an industry where that was desired to drink off the fountain of youth, and I just never subscribed to it. So I appreciate everything you said. And I think men just need to let women know aging is safe and awesome," Drew says.
Drew is one of the few celebrities in Hollywood, arguably along with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jaime Lee Curtis, and Jennifer Lopez, who still looks like herself. You would never have trouble recognizing Drew today compared to what she looked like when she filmed Never Been Kissed. Even Courteney Cox has candidly admitted that all the procedures she had done on her face left her "looking really strange," adding that she wouldn't have done all that to herself if she could turn back time. Perhaps there's something we can all learn from watching women like Drew age naturally.