I regret having plastic surgery, says Jane, 80
JANE Fonda has admitted she regrets having plastic surgery and says she now loves the look of ‘older, lived-in faces’.
The 80-year-old American actress, who has a long history of cosmetic surgery including Botox and facelifts, said she is unhappy that she felt the need to change her appearance ‘to feel OK’.
‘I am glad that I look good for my age, but I’ve also had plastic surgery. I’m not going to lie about that,’ she says in documentary Jane Fonda In Five Acts, by US broadcaster HBO.
‘On one level, I hate the fact that I have had the need to alter myself physically to feel that I am OK.
‘I wish I wasn’t like that. I love older faces. I love lived-in faces. I love Vanessa Redgrave’s face. I wish I was braver. But I am what I am.’
The Oscar- winner previously revealed that her long history of cosmetic surgery may have been a ‘mask’ to hide the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Speaking to the Observer magazine in May she said: ‘I feel very sad that so many girls are abused all over the world and that men don’t understand what it does to them.
‘It’s not something that happens lightly – it can alter a person. And then you have to be very intentional about getting back into your own skin. But it can be done.’
Linking plastic surgery to sexual abuse, she said that when she sees the face of ‘a woman who has made herself into a mask, I always think to myself … I wonder, I wonder’.
In 2006 she told an interviewer: ‘I’m going to try to organise other women in my profession and my friends to say “No” to the duck lips and getting rid of the wrinkles.’ However, four years later she revealed she had had surgery on her chin, neck and under her eyes.