Amber Tamblyn questions getting plastic surgery as a preteen despite being a 'fiery young feminist'

Amber Tamblyn admitted she went under the knife erstwhile she was 12 years old.

After dealing with bullying astatine her schoolhouse successful the Southern California area, the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" histrion had her ears pinned backmost astatine a young age, Tamblyn elaborate successful a portion for The New York Times.

At the time, she considered herself a "fiery young feminist who raged against the patriarchy," but besides questioned her ain hypocrisy successful succumbing to disapproval and changing her assemblage for the involvement of idiosyncratic else's ideals of beauty.

"As a small miss I had ears that stuck retired similar large butterfly wings," she wrote. "Some kids astatine my schoolhouse successful Los Angeles would marque amusive of them, and I’d often look astatine myself successful the reflector wishing my ears would laic level against my head."

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Amber Tamblyn underwent integrative country astatine 12 years old. (Getty Images)

"But it wasn’t until landing my archetypal large relation connected a TV amusement astatine property 12 that I opted to acquisition ear-pinning surgery, a determination I’ve ne'er made nationalist until now." 

Tamblyn began portraying Emily Quartermaine connected "General Hospital" successful 1995, a relation she carried connected for six years and 57 episodes.

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"But it wasn’t until landing my archetypal large relation connected a TV amusement astatine property 12 that I opted to acquisition ear-pinning surgery, a determination I’ve ne'er made nationalist until now." 

She had written a poem astir desirable esthetics successful the amusement industry, which was aboriginal published successful her archetypal publication and described the lengths women went done to enactment young and desirable, but post-surgery near them with "noses similar dormant poodles."

Amber Tamblyn began moving connected "General Hospital" successful 1995. (Getty Images)

Tamblyn recovered fame for her starring relation alongside Blake Lively, America Ferrera, and Alexis Bledel successful the 2005 flick, "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." (Getty Images)

"Yet successful changing my ain body, I was besides a hypocrite who gave successful to it — due to the fact that however could anyone not?" she wrote. "Going nether the weapon felt similar choosing a limb I could wield successful self-defense against my ain disposability. It showed the satellite I understood the duty of assimilation — that I could bash immoderate it took to acceptable in, ne'er basal out, the mode my ears erstwhile did."

Tamblyn, 41, related to Demi Moore's latest film, "The Substance," wherever Moore's character, an aging actress, takes an experimental cause with the committedness of being reborn into a new, younger body.

"Would I beryllium little blessed if I had fought against the tendency to get my ears pinned back, if they inactive stuck retired today? I don’t cognize — but I bash deliberation astir it often, and astir my willingness to align myself with the industry’s expectations," she wrote. "My experience, and ‘The Substance,’ are not conscionable Hollywood stories. 

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"These are cosmopolitan realities for immoderate woman, nary substance her inheritance oregon profession. The subtle messages of sexism are passed down to america arsenic generational wisdom, astir from birth."

Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore prima successful "The Substance." (Getty Images)

Tamblyn hoped there's inactive clip for a antithetic mentation of "The Substance" to beryllium 1 day, wherever Moore's quality doesn't person to "chase youth, and alternatively learns to emotion her aging self, nary substance however overmuch the remainder of the satellite whitethorn not."

"That mentation of the communicative whitethorn consciousness excessively extremist for the satellite conscionable yet; a reminder of however overmuch further we inactive request to spell successful centering self-acceptance and imperfection astatine immoderate property successful our storytelling," she wrote. 

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"I don’t apologize for what I’ve done, oregon for what I haven’t. My narration to my assemblage has changed, healed even, arsenic I’ve go much protective, compassionate and honest. The connection successful ‘The Substance,’ for women everywhere, is clear: that sometimes, if we’re not careful, our committedness becomes the consequence. And determination tin beryllium an untapped, corporate powerfulness successful not giving up connected not giving in.