Jennifer Grey Opens Up About Her Lack Of Chemistry With Patrick Swayze While Filming ‘Dirty Dancing’, Her Plastic Surgery & More
18.04.2022 - 16:49
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Jennifer Grey opens up about her lengthy career and incredible life in a candid new interview with People.
The actress, who famously starred as Baby Houseman alongside Patrick Swayze’s Johnny Castle in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing”, talks to the magazine about no longer wanting to be “in a corner,” as quoted in the much-loved film.
The 62-year-old says of wanting to take up as much space as possible: “That’s a new feeling. To take myself out of the corner — and to recognize that I have been putting myself there, through story, through narratives that weren’t giving me the best life.
“The story I was telling myself about how I got here was not a great story. And not entirely true. I hadn’t seen the ways in which I’d made choices.”
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Grey, who is set to release her memoir Out of the Corner on May 3, also discusses her rhinoplasty in the tell-all chat.
She says of Michael Douglas not recognizing her at a premiere after her second nose job: “That was the first time I had gone out in public. And it became the thing, the idea of being completely invisible, from one day to the next.
“In the world’s eyes, I was no longer me. And the weird thing was that thing that I resisted my whole life, and the thing I was so upset with my mother for always telling me I should do, my nose, I really thought it was capitulating. I really thought it meant surrendering to the enemy camp. I just thought, ‘I’m good enough. I shouldn’t have to do this.’ That’s really what I felt. ‘I’m beautiful enough.'”
Grey adds of her mother, Jo Wilder, suggesting she got a nose job from very early on in her life: “She loves me, loved me, always has, and she was pragmatic