Justine Bateman feels 'sad' for younger women who feel they need plastic surgery

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Justine Bateman is getting candid about younger women feeling the need to get plastic surgery to alter their appearance. During her appearance on "Today" on Monday, Bateman, 57, said that the desire for plastic surgery in younger generations boils down to one thing: fear. "I think that everybody has a completion to this sentence: 'I'm afraid if people think I look old then therefore …,' and for different people, it's different things," she told co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb. "Some are afraid they'll lose their job or never get a job or not get a mate or no one's going to listen to them or whatever," Bateman continued. "My position is: That fear existed before your face started changing.

So, it's an opportunity to take care of that fear so it's not leading you around by the nose and making you make other decisions that are not you, taking you off track," she said.

Bateman said that younger women who are considering having work done on their face might not specifically be trying to avoid looking older but rather trying to avoid feeling how some older people may feel about their looks. "They see all these older people going, 'Oh, I've got to change this, I've got to change that, I'm so afraid, I'm so afraid,'" Bateman said. "And I think the young women are going, 'I don't want to feel like that.

I don't want to feel terrified that my face is getting older.'" In March, the "Family Ties" star was a guest on "60 Minutes Australia" where she said she feels "sad" for younger women who feel the pressure to change how they look. "When you say, ‘Is there beauty in aging?’ aren’t you really saying, ‘Do you think it’s possible for other people to find aging beautiful?’" Bateman said. "And like, I just don’t give a s---.".