Charlize Theron responds to critics who think she had a facelift and denies getting 'bad plastic surgery'

• Charlize Theron spoke about aging in an interview with Allure published Friday. 
• Theron denied rumors that she got a facelift or plastic surgery.
• She also criticized the double standard women and men face when aging. 

Charlize Theron pushed back against speculation she got "bad plastic surgery." 

On Friday, Allure published an interview with Theron that discussed her thoughts on aging in the public eye. During the interview, she swatted down claims she went under the knife. 

"My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging," she told the outlet. "But people think I had a facelift. They're like, 'What did she do to her face?' I'm like, 'Bitch, I'm just aging! It doesn't mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.'"

The "Fast X" star also touched on the double standards that men and women face while aging. 

"I've always had issues with the fact that men kind of age like fine wines and women like cut flowers," Theron said. "I despise that concept and I want to fight against it, but I also think women want to age in a way that feels right to them. I think we need to be a little bit more empathetic to how we all go through our journey. My journey of having to see my face on a billboard is quite funny now." 

Theron noted in the article that some fans might not accept that she's aging, leading her to talk about how getting older has affected her approach to films. 

"I will never, ever do a movie again and say, 'Yeah, I'll gain 40 pounds.' I will never do it again because you can't take it off," she told Allure. "When I was 27, I did Monster. I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I missed three meals and I was back to my normal weight."

She added: "Then I did it at 43 for Tully, and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, 'I think I'm dying because I cannot lose this weight.' And he was like, 'You're over 40. Calm down. Your metabolism is not what it was.' Nobody wants to hear that."

Theron also noticed it takes longer to bounce back from injuries now.

"The thing that really bums me out is that I make action movies now and if I hurt myself, I take way longer to heal than I did in my 20s. More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow," she told Allure. "Now, if I don't work out for three days and I go back to the gym, I can't walk. I can't sit down on the toilet. It's all those very real moments."

Theron is known for her physicality in action films, including "Fast X." In March, Michelle Rodriguez told Variety that she and Theron shot a fight scene without a director.