Jamie Lee Curtis Recalls Going Makeup-Free in a Magazine 22 Years Ago (Exclusive)

Jamie Lee Curtis shared a susceptible however highly effective message by going makeup-free and stripping down for {a magazine} shoot greater than twenty years in the past. 

In 2002, the Oscar winner, 66, made the daring determination to pose on the cowl of More journal with none make-up and carrying nothing however a sports activities bra and underwear. In this week’s subject of PEOPLE, Curtis explains why having “fallen prey” to unrealistic magnificence requirements influenced her determination to strip down for the photograph shoot, which was additionally printed with none retouches.

“I said, ‘I will do it if you do a picture of me with no makeup, no clothes, no styling, no hair, nothing,” says Curtis. “And then you do me completely dressed up, fully made up, glammed out, and you tell how long it took, how much money it costs, how many people it took to get me to look like that.” 

In doing this, the actress needed to showcase the “energy of telling the reality.” 

“I have been a vocal critic, and we’ll go to my grave with it, that there is a cosmeceutical industrial complex telling women they are not enough without this bulls— idea of face augmentation, fillers, injections, lifts, all of the glow-ups that these women are doing.” 

She clarifies that anybody is “free to do whatever the f— they want” on the subject of their look, however hopes that folks can really feel equally empowered with out touch-ups. 

It’s why Curtis fully resonated with Pamela Anderson when she launched into a journey of going makeup-free at Paris Fashion Week in September 2023.

“I started sobbing because it’s exactly what we should be doing,” Curtis stated of Anderson, who impressed her to submit a bare-faced selfie to Instagram on her 66th birthday this previous November. “I respect her a lot for it,” provides the Halloween star.

Anderson, who has continued going bare-faced for the promotion of The Last Showgirl, which additionally stars Curtis, tells PEOPLE that she’s felt “spiritually” liberated since embracing her pure magnificence within the public eye. 

“I was always creating characters in my personal life for protection or dressing for other people to make them happy. I went back into my garden, peeled it all back, put one of my sun hats on and looked in the mirror and I thought, ‘It’s good enough.’” 

For extra on Jamie Lee Curtis and Pamela Anderson, choose up the brand new subject of PEOPLE.