“Grease” Actress Didi Conn, 74, Reveals Unfiltered Opinion on Plastic Surgery and Injectables (Exclusive)

Hedy PhillipsSat, June 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

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Didi Conn tells PEOPLE that she's grateful for the aging process

She recalls being inspired by friend Olivia Newton-John to be grateful to age

Conn also shares one of her favorite memories of her late friend

Didi Conn is happy to age gracefully.

The actress, 74, tells PEOPLE that while she'd never judge anyone for trying out plastic surgery or injectables, it's simply not a route she wants to go down.

"It's putting something foreign into your face," Conn says of Botox. "It scares me."

Didi Conn in 'Grease'Credit: CBS via Getty

Similarly, she says she sometimes wishes she could just "lift" her face to appear a certain age, but it's not something she'd actually do. Instead, she's been letting herself age as nature intended.

"My mother had beautiful skin, and I have to say, I inherited her skin," she says. "I never had acne. She had just the softest, most beautiful skin, and as I got older, people said, 'Oh, Didi, you look so great.' Then I hit menopause and there was a pause to, 'Didi, you look so great.'"

She said she, like many, had to "reconcile" with the fact that aging happens.

"I have so, so much to be grateful for, honestly," she says. "I learned this from my friend Olivia [Newton-John] about gratitude for what you have and God knows she struggled through a lot of things, so that's what I do now. And you know what? It blesses you when you think of it. Your heart pumps and you look better, I think, when you can feel how grateful you are."

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Conn and Newton-John starred together in 1978's Grease, where Newton-John played Sandy and Conn played Frenchy. Conn, who spoke to PEOPLE while promoting a new partnership with Laura Geller Beauty for the brand's Root Touch Up product, also shares that she remained "very good friends" with her costar up until her death in 2022. She recalls her fondly when asked.

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"Whenever I think about Olivia, I think about when I would see her go to her concerts, because she'd always do a Grease set at the end of her concert," Conn reveals, adding that there was a time she called out for her in the crowd while she was in attendance. "She'd talked to the audience and she'd say, 'Sometimes in life you make a friend and then you have that friend your whole life and. Ihave one like that here today.'"

Conn says the venue went "nuts," and she'd go on stage and become a "rock star for five minutes" while they performed Grease songs together.

Tearing up as she finished her story, Conn says, "Then I would stand off stage and watch her to her last song, which was 'I Honestly Love You,' and she'd stand there and sing ... [and say to her fans] 'I honestly love you.' And she really meant it. She meant it with all her heart."

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