The 'Dirty Dancing' star opens up, in her new book, about feeling 'upset' with Jo Wilder for telling her to do rhinoplasty under the notion she's 'too hard to cast.'

• Apr 19, 2022

AceShowbiz - Jennifer Grey bares it all. The actress famous as Frances Baby Houseman in "Dirty Dancing" got candid, in "Out of the Corner", about her regret listening to her mother's appeal for her to get a nose job.

Before releasing the book, Jennifer opened up to PEOPLE about Jo Wilder's influence which resulted in her undergoing two rhinoplasty procedures and being unrecognizable. "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," she told the outlet.

The 62-year-old continued, "I really thought it was capitulating. I really thought it meant surrendering to the enemy camp." She went on saying, "I just thought, 'I'm good enough. I shouldn't have to do this.' That's really what I felt. 'I'm beautiful enough.' "

Jennifer's admission came when a topic in her book that discussed Michael Douglas failing to recognize her at a premiere was brought up. "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," she said.

During the discussion, Jennifer revealed that she was actually against nose job. She explained, "When I was a kid, I was completely anti-rhinoplasty. I mean it was like my religion. I loved that my parents did it [underwent rhinoplasty]. I understand it was the 50s. I understand they were assimilating."

Jennifer went on saying, "I understood that you had to change your name and you had to do certain things, and it was just normalized, right? You can't be gay. You can't be Jewish. You know, you can't look Jewish." She eventually did her nose because she was "just trying to fit into whatever is the group think."

On how her mother's coaxing managed to change her view, the 62-year-old actress divulged, "She loves me, loved me, always has, and she was pragmatic because she was saying, 'Guess what? It's too hard to cast you. Make it easier for them.' And then I did and she was right." She further added, "It wasn't like, 'You're not pretty.' It's like, 'Guess what? If you don't want to be an actor, okay. But if you wanna be an actor...' "

In the memoir itself, Jennifer shared how it felt like being shunned by Hollywood after her rhinoplasty. She wrote, "I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was banished from the kingdom. That's a lie. I banished myself."