Teri Hatcher, 60, Denies Plastic Surgery, Criticizes Women Who Lie About Cosmetic Work

Teri Hatcher has insisted that she’s not gone under the knife after showing off her super-smooth, tight visage in recent months.

The former Desperate Housewives star and Bond girl, 60, addressed speculation during a candid discussion about cosmetic surgery – admitting she’s furious with famous women who lie about work they’ve had done.

‘Being a woman is hard… Ageing is hard,’ she told The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show podcast.

‘So I have no judgement about how anybody feels good about themselves in their life. I don’t love when people aren’t truthful about it.’

She continued: ‘When you’re famous and you lie, you’re making the rest of us feel bad about ourselves, because we look at you and we go, “I guess I’m not drinking enough water.” And that is unfair.’

The star, who rose to fame opposite Dean Cain in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, has shown off a very smooth complexion in recent months, including at Cannes Film Festival in May this year.

She said she understands the pressure many women in the industry face to look young, but believes dishonesty only worsens insecurities for everyone else.

‘You’re balancing it against people deserving their privacy,’ she added. ‘I get that. But it just doesn’t make the rest of us feel great.’

Teri added that she feels proud to represent what she calls ‘a real 60-year-old woman’ on screen, even if it means ageing naturally in front of the camera.

‘I’m excited about people being able to look at me on screen and be like, “That’s a real 60-year-old woman. That’s a 65-year-old woman. That’s a 70-year-old woman. I want to look like that.”’

And as for whether she’s ever gone under the knife herself, Teri insisted she hasn’t – though she doesn’t rule it out completely. 

‘I’m only on my side of it, meaning that for now, when I look in the mirror and I think, what is lacking, what am I still struggling with, what would I like to be better at, how can I find peace… my answer is not a facelift,’ she explained. 

‘My answer to myself is internal work. It’s intellectual work. It’s emotional work.’

She added: ‘If I felt like my answer was in not having wrinkles in my neck, then I would probably do it. I have no judgement about it. 

‘But my instinct isn’t that the answer is in plastic surgery, which is why I’m not doing it.’

The actress, who became a household name when Desperate Housewives premiered in 2004, has long resisted Hollywood’s obsession with staying youthful.

In 2010, after years of speculation, she posted bare-faced selfies on Facebook to prove she hadn’t had Botox or fillers, writing at the time that she wanted to show ‘the real me – no surgery, no implants, no Botox, no fillers’.

Fifteen years later, she’s still holding that line. But she admits the double standards between ageing men and women in the industry remain as stark as ever.

‘I just think the world is positioned more kindly towards ageing men than it is toward ageing women,’ she said. ‘You see businessmen that carry on into their 70s and 80s – I mean, look at our politics. I just think there is always a harsher lens on women.

‘Men don’t have to make that choice. They’re still the sexiest man alive at 67.’

Teri added that she’s encouraged by a shift in attitudes, with more women embracing natural ageing. 

She said: ‘I do think we’re chipping away at it. I mean look at Martha Stewart. Let’s all just bow down, shall we? We need more of that.’

Instead of focusing on her appearance, the actress said she channels her energy into health and fitness.

‘My whole thing is about trying to age well,’ she said. ‘And that includes what I’m eating, how I’m exercising, how I’m learning, what I’m doing with my brain in a way that I don’t think my parents considered.’

She revealed she works out with a trainer twice a week, lifts weights for bone health, does sprint intervals on the treadmill and hikes three to four miles in the hills near her home.

‘I try to focus on what I can do, not what I look like,’ she explained. ‘That’s a mental trick I do with myself because if you’re not augmenting your face, you are going to look in the mirror and be like, “Oh, those wrinkles.” 

‘Like, that’s not great. I don’t love that I necessarily look like that because it’s not how I used to look – but oh well. 

‘Because I can still take my big heavy suitcase and shove it in the overhead bin as I’m travelling to France for my vacation. That’s what’s important to me.’

The star, who shares daughter Emerson, 27, with actor ex-husband Jon Tenney, said she avoids heavily edited posts and prefers to show her unfiltered self.

‘I actually have a makeup artist friend who once said, “Why don’t you ever put any beautiful pictures of you on Instagram?” Because I look like s*** in all of them!’ she laughed. 

‘Once in a while, I’ll put photos from when I went to Cannes – all the makeup, fake hair, boob lift, Spanx – and that’s fun. But the real me is not that. 

‘I put those things out there because I want people to feel okay about just being themselves.’

Her daughter, Emerson, has also sworn off social media entirely.

‘She just took it off her phone three months ago,’ Teri said. ‘Every time I see her, she’s like, “I’m so happy. I’m so glad I did that.” It’s such a waste of time.’

She added: ‘I think it’s tough because women in Hollywood have to make a choice – are they going to try to continue to look young, or are they going to give that up?’ she said.

‘I’d consider myself in the lane of not fighting that physicality, and hopefully growing into the stories of a mature woman or a grandmother or whatever comes next.’