Dame Helen Mirren's Advice for Avoiding Cosmetic Surgery: Bathroom Lighting
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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80 year old Helen Mirren has some sage words women of all ages need to hear! First, she said she doesn’t call it “growing old”, instead Mirren calls it “growing up.” As Amy and T.J. discuss the pressures on young girls and aging women to look a certain way, Mirren asks women to consider changing one very important thing before contemplating plastic surgery.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey there, everybody. |
| 0:14.4 | It is Saturday, January 17th. |
| 0:18.2 | And wow, I saw an article this week that I was so impressed with you love Helen |
| 0:24.5 | Mirren by the way she's one of your absolute favorite actresses you talk about her |
| 0:29.0 | quite a bit I mean that sounded creepy but yes I'm a fan Jesus she is one of those women I |
| 0:36.1 | think a lot of us women look up to. |
| 0:39.3 | She's 80 years old. |
| 0:41.3 | She's aging beautifully and aging very differently than a lot of women we're seeing that are in the spotlight. |
| 0:48.3 | Certainly actors and actresses. |
| 0:49.5 | And I will say, babe, as a woman, knowing that a man can look at someone who's 80, who has chosen not to do |
| 0:58.1 | anything surgically to her face, and she talks about all of this, that you can find her |
| 1:04.0 | sexy and appealing and strong. And I'm telling you, hearing you say that actually is, |
| 1:12.1 | this makes sense comforting to women who are aging, |
| 1:15.9 | like, wow, you can be beautiful, you can be sexy, embracing your age. |
| 1:20.3 | Don't listen to me. |
| 1:21.4 | I mean, don't listen to me about it. |
| 1:22.6 | Unfortunately, folks too often, a man and men and women look to outside forces to validate to make them feel |
| 1:28.1 | good about what they're doing or how they're looking and Heather Mirren for me is it's not just |
| 1:32.5 | her appearance and I think she is regarded as classically beautiful in a lot of circles she's an 80 year |
| 1:39.3 | old woman and my crush probably started certainly after she was 60 but she's absolutely one of my celebrity crush, without a doubt. |
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