Jamie Lee Curtis on the Gift of Valuing Yourself for Who You Are

As a second generation Hollywood star JAMIE LEE CURTIS knows a lot about game playing, but the kind of games she prefers to play are board games, so no one was more thrilled than she to be selected as the spokesperson for Hasbro classic games, such as Monopoly®, Clue® and Guess Who?®.

"If I'm anything in the world, I'm a game player," she tells ET's JANN CARL. "I think games, [Hasbro's], are kind of an old-fashioned idea, but they're a very modern gift. To me they are the quintessential family game and all other toys go out the window."

Jamie thinks the long-term success of board games is that they're able to bring together disparate groups of people. For example, she plays board games with her husband CHRISTOPHER GUEST, who is 10 years older than her, her 18-year-old daughter and her nine-year-old son in the evening, or when she's on location.

"Games make great presents," Jamie enthuses. "Housewarming, hostess gift -- what better hostess gift? I don't bring alcohol, flowers die, but games last forever. They're great baby gifts. You have a baby, you give the game of Life®. Or give two because they suck them, you know? You're having a fight with your husband? Bring home Battleship® and say, 'Let's do this and not fight.'"

There is a great deal of knowledge that comes with being a second generation Hollywood baby, and the outspoken star of such films as 'Halloween,' 'True Lies' and 'Christmas with the Kranks' isn't afraid to weigh in on subjects, such as the rampant plastic surgery in Hollywood.

The 47-year-old star also talks to Jann about aging gracefully in a superficial industry and delivers her candid opinion on the plastic surgery trend that has become alarmingly too common in recent years.

"I think more than ever it's an epidemic that's out of control and it seems like people are under a drug," says Jamie Lee. "What's so sad to me is these people are completely ruining their faces, their beautiful God-given faces, and they look like aliens, and yet it's as if nobody is saying anything."

Jamie Lee is not exempt from the growing number of actresses, socialites and everyday people who have tried everything from Botox to liposuction and more.

"I fell prey to the whole thing too," she admits. "First, it didn't work emotionally. You know what I mean? It felt fraudulent. The act of going through with it made me feel ashamed of myself. I don't do anything anymore. I now realize it didn't work for me."

As for Botox specifically, Jamie Lee says, "You know what? You don't have an expression! All these actresses have these foreheads that look like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum!"

Concerned that people in Hollywood will devastate their lives by making radical changes using surgery that was once used solely for major defects and injuries -- or for minor corrective measures -- Jamie Lee observes, "There's an actress who many people consider one of the most beautiful people, and you look at her and go, 'What did she do to herself?! She doesn't look like her anymore. What happened?' And I think that's a terrible, terrible thing to have happen, and I think it's really going to ruin people's lives."

"Everything begins with the inside," concludes Jamie, "and it really has to do with appreciating and recognizing yourself internally, and that takes hard work."

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