Jamie Lee Curtis Speaks Out About Not Sucking in Her Stomach for New Role

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Jamie Lee Curtis is done hiding her body, and it's never felt more liberating.The 63-year-old actress posted a picture on Instagram dressed in character as the IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdra for her new film, .

She's seen like never before in the picture posted Thursday, and that was intentional for Curtis, who said she had been sucking in her stomach since she was 11.«In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things,» Curtis wrote in the caption. «Concealers.

Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are.»So, when Curtis signed up for the science-fiction film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, she had one caveat.A post shared by Jamie Lee Curtis (@curtisleejamie)«And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything,» she continued in her caption. «I've been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight.

I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal.