Jamie Lee Curtis retires from acting

Hollywood actress Jamie Lee Curtis has no intention of making any more movies, and will instead concentrate on her picture book career.

The star recently published her seventh children's book, Is There Really a Human Race?, and is no longer interested in being in front of the camera.

"No," she said "I don't want to be somebody else anymore."

Her change of heart may have something to do with what she regards as society's obsession with keeping thin at the expense of remaining healthy, labelling it "sick".

The 47-year-old actress is also disgusted by plastic surgery, despite having undergone liposuction and Botox injections a few years ago.

However, Curtis told US TV show Access Holywood she will never go under the knife or have any enhancements again.

"It's sick what's happening," she said. "Younger and younger people are changing the way they look. Nobody looks good, everybody looks freakish, everybody's talking about it and nobody's saying it to their faces.

"I think there's something pervasive that is in every area of showbusiness, maybe in every area of society period, that you are not enough, that you have to inherently change who you are in order to compete."