Drew Barrymore Says She Hasn’t ‘Done Anything’ to Her Face in Heartfelt Message About Aging

Drew Barrymore told a studio audience she hasn’t “done anything” in terms of cosmetic surgery — and she hopes to keep it that way.

During the Friday, April 25, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the host was asked if she has any tips for aging gracefully.

“I haven’t done anything and I wanna try and stay that way,” she responded, as captured in a video of the exchange shared via Instagram that same day. “But I also am like, do whatever works for you. I know this woman who went through so much stuff in her life and she just did something that made her feel so good about herself and it changed her whole perspective.”

Instead, it’s more important for the talk show host and actress to focus on not judging others. “We’re all on our own path and we have to support each other. I see a lot of like, turkey neck or sometimes I go, wow, we’re there now. I don’t really have a tip necessarily other than I want to tell myself not to be so mean to myself,” Barrymore continued.

For Barrymore, it’s all about treating ourselves with compassion and love, and “the kinder, more patient, more resilient, more loving, more embracing, less dismissive that we can be, the better it is for our mental game and spiritual game, which affects the face.”

“A smile is better than any lipstick you’ll buy,” she continued. “And an internal dialogue that isn’t so eviscerating of ourselves. And so quick to catch a flaw. Who says that’s the flaw? By the way, that might be someone else’s favorite thing about you. How ironic. It isn’t how you look, it’s how you feel.”

Barrymore celebrated her 50th birthday in February 2025. She shared ahead of time that her plan was to have a sleepover with her daughters, Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10.

“We’re the three sardines, and we’ll get into our can,” she told Us Weekly at the time. “I’ve always spent the night with them on my birthday and their birthdays. We have a tradition, so I’m doing a night or two of sleepovers leading up, and then I’m doing a sleepover with my daughters on my 50th. 
But the whole theme of 
the 50th birthday is sleepovers. Sleepovers should never go away.”

The conversation was a two-way street, and afterward Barrymore texted to say the interview made her reflect on her sometimes turbulent past in a positive light. “You made me realize that my two most challenging decades (teens and 40s) were my absolute favorites,” she wrote. “And how happy the revelation makes me.”