Legendary actress Helen Mirren has some advice for young people who are considering getting facelifts.
The Oscar winner revealed a cheaper alternative for social media influencers who are under pressure to look beautiful on TikTok and other streaming apps.
“If women or men are seriously diminished, defeated, or depressed when they look in the mirror and are brought down by what they see, and they have the financial ability and the mental ability or whatever to change it, fine,” she told Elle magazine.
Mirren continued, “I do think because of social media and what apps can do, you look at the reality and you get literally depressed. I think that’s a very, very sad state of affairs.”
She shared a simple tip for looking younger in livestreams and photo shoots. Mirren urged people to try her advice before going under the knife.
“Before contemplating anything, get really good lighting in your bathroom so that whenever you look in the mirror, you are lit beautifully and look great,” she said. “It’s a lot cheaper than getting a facelift.”
She continued:
“I am serious about the good lighting in the bathroom. Bad lighting is so depressing. I think it would be a terrible mistake to get plastic surgery when you’re in your twenties. Your face changes. I don’t like to criticize or attack people for doing what makes them happy. But to trying to look like a fake picture of yourself would be terrible.”
Mirren won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in the film “The Queen.” She posed with fellow Oscar winners (L-R) Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, and Alan Arkin at the Kodak Theater on February 25, 2007.
