Julia Fox Talks Women Being Open About Cosmetic Procedures (Exclusive)

Julia Fox thinks it’s great that more women have been speaking openly about the cosmetic procedures they’ve had done.

While speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the North American premiere of her new film The Trainer at the Tribeca Festival at SVA Theatre in New York on Saturday, June 7, Fox, 35, discussed the “new wave of women” who have been open about the procedures they’ve undergone.

Fox, who has herself spoken openly in the past about the cosmetic surgeries she’s had, tells PEOPLE, “I love it. I think we should be honest.” 

“Women set the bar for each other and I feel like if you’re setting an unrealistic bar [if you’re not honest]. That’s really great for you, but what about all the girls that are so impressionable and feeling like ‘Wait, why don’t I look like that and what’s wrong with me?'” the actress adds.

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Fox continues, “It’s like, girl, none of us look like this, you know what I mean? Like we all look really different without the surgery and without the fillers and without the makeup and all the things we do and the face tapes and the wigs and the tanning creams. The list goes on. On and on and on.” 

The Uncut Gems actress, who stars as Bee Luciani alongside actors including Vito Schnabel and Bella Thorne in The Trainer, insists women should know their self-worth.

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She says she thinks it’s “really important” to tell “girls there’s nothing wrong with you, like you’re perfect the way you are and this is all smoke and mirrors, sweetie, you know … it’s such a beautiful message.”

Fox previously revealed she’d had liposuction and Botox in a February 2023 interview with Elle, insisting at the time that, although she wouldn’t shy away from going under the knife again, she was embracing her natural body.

“I’m, like, saggy—like, things are not sitting the way they used to. But it’s like, I am not gonna do a damn thing about it,” she told the outlet.

Fox had also previously shared her thoughts on aging in a 2022 TikTok clip, saying it was “f—ing hot.” 

She told her followers, “Aging is fully in — like fully,” adding, “Dirty girl, ugly [and] not wearing clothes that fit your body type” to the list of looks that she also thought were in.

She went on to criticize anti-aging products, suggesting they perpetuate an unrealistic standard of beauty for women.

“If I see another product that says anti-aging on the label, I’m suing. I’m going to sue,” Fox said in the TikTok clip. “I’m going to sue because I’m going to age regardless of if I put that f—ing $500 serum on my face, and you all f—ing know it and we know it so let’s stop lying to ourselves.”

She continued at the time, “Getting old is f—ing hot. It is sexy. It is probably the sexiest time in life actually because being pretty and hot in your twenties is the f—ing trenches and I’m not going back there.”