The quote
“I had a routine plastic surgery because of a cameraman. I naturally had puffy eyes.”
Context
A cameraman on the 1985 film Perfect refused to shoot her because her eyes were puffy. She had the eyelid surgery after the film and says the Vicodin prescribed for it was the start of an opioid addiction.
Sources
- Variety, Recovery Issue interview, 2019-11-05 (variety.com)
- Yahoo Entertainment, 2025-05-14 (quotes the Variety interview and her 2019 New Yorker line "Right after that movie I went and had an eye job") (yahoo.com)
Both pages read 2026-09-30.
The procedure
Upper eyelid surgery
In Jamie Lee Curtis' words: “Upper eyelid surgery”
Upper blepharoplasty removes excess skin from the upper eyelid, with or without a strip of orbicularis muscle and some fat (PMID 40152471). Redundant upper lid skin can narrow the upper field of vision and cause lid heaviness, headache and tearing (PMID 42693598).
Procedure page: Upper blepharoplasty
Procedure pages and surgeons
Others on record
People who named the same procedure, most in common first, then the newest statement.
| Person | Year |
|---|---|
| Denise Richards “He did everything. He did the neck, the lower face, the upper, the brow lift. The only thing he didn't do…” | 2026 |
| Jessi Ngatikaura “I went in for a lower bleph and then I asked about an upper bleph and ended up getting that. Did not want…” | 2026 |
| Ramona Singer “So I really did it because I had 'a little hood,' ... my eye was a little droopy... I had a little excess…” | 2023 |
| Dawn Ward “I had excess skin on my upper lids. I'd try to mask it as much as I could with lots of makeup.” | 2018 |
| Tamra Judge “I did a lower facelift, where they pull from the neck and the lower jaw. ... Since he would have to cut…” | 2017 |
| Phyllis Diller “I decided to do the whole thing, neck, up above the eyes, below the eyes, whole new nose.” | 2006 |
Questions
Did Jamie Lee Curtis have upper eyelid surgery?
By Jamie Lee Curtis' own account, yes. The statement is in Variety, Recovery Issue interview, 2019-11-05, and yahoo.com reported it.
What did Jamie Lee Curtis have done?
In Jamie Lee Curtis' words: “Upper eyelid surgery”. Sorted into the procedure library as upper eyelid surgery.
Who was Jamie Lee Curtis' surgeon?
The statement on record does not name a surgeon. A surgeon is listed only when the patient named them.
How was the record checked?
The quote was copied verbatim from the source page, a second outlet was found reporting the same statement, and both pages were checked 2026-09-30. Rumor and comparisons of photographs are not recorded. The rules are in the method.