Keri Russell, 49, slams Hollywood plastic surgery trends: ‘I like the way I look’

Felicity has learned from her haircut. 

Keri Russell, 49, is speaking out about the pressure to get plastic surgery in Hollywood. 

“It’s something my girlfriends and I talk about all the time. Plastic surgery is having such a moment right now — men, women, 20-year-olds. I mean, it is around,” she told People in an interview published Sunday.

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“We’re inundated with these movie stars,” she explained, without naming names. “Even though they might be 50 or 60 years old, they look amazing.”

Talking about watching herself on her Netflix political drama “The Diplomat,” she added, “I watch this show and I’m like, I do not look like that, you know. I like the way I look on the show, and it’s amazing that I feel like that’s strange, like that’s a unique thing to look like that, but it is.”

The actress has been in a relationship with her “The Americans” co-star Matthew Rhys, 50, since 2014. The pair share son Sam together. She’s also mom to kids River and Willa with her ex-husband Shane Deary.

“It’s such a weird thing being a woman,” she told the outlet. “Everyone has an opinion about the way you look, the way you dress, the way your hair is. It’s just the nature of our society.” 

Her show “The Diplomat” addresses such topics.

“I like how cranky she is about it, and how she’s always trying to fight people about it, and is rude about it. I love it. I find it delightful,” she said, referring to her character Kate. “It’s like a fun thing to play.” 

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Russell is no stranger to stirring up conversation about her appearance. When she was starring on “Felicity” from 1998 to 2002, she infamously cut her long curls, causing public controversy. 

In a July interview posted on Imagine Entertainment’s Instagram, she recalled that series creator JJ Abrams called her to tell her, “We have this idea that the boyfriend breaks up with you, and then, like college girls do… you go and cut your hair. Would you be willing to do that?’ I said, ‘Yeah, of course.’ And so we did it, and there was this crazy backlash.” 

“I did not expect all the hysteria,” she said. “Strangers did come up to me on the street and say things like, ‘You were so pretty before you cut your hair.’”

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“The Diplomat” Season 3 even included a reference to the public conversation about her hair. 

During the fourth episode, Kate gives a stern talking-to to a Secret Service agent who is supposed to be her double. 

“It’s not like I don’t wash it. I do. And I comb it,” she said onscreen, referring to her tousled hair.

“It’s a style. That style is: not looking like you spend hours [doing your hair], because some people have more important things to do. It’s not: couldn’t get the top up on the convertible.”

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Russell told People, “People like to talk about my hair. I don’t know what to say. People care about my hair.”

Referring to “The Diplomat” poking fun at it, she said, “Oh my God, I love it. I think it’s great.”