'Dirty Dancing' star Jennifer Grey says she became 'invisible' after her nose job and even Michael Douglas didn't recognize her

• Jennifer Grey recalled to People how she became "invisible" after getting nose plastic surgery.
• Grey said she was even unrecognizable to fellow film star Michael Douglas at a premiere.

Jennifer Grey told People that she became "invisible" following plastic surgery on her nose at the height of her career in the 1990s.

Grey starred in the hit 1987 movie "Dirty Dancing" alongside Patrick Swayze after her breakout role as the unlucky older sister in 1986's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" starring Matthew Broderick. However, after the release of "Dirty Dancing," Grey decided to do two rhinoplasty surgeries to alter the appearance of her nose, which she discusses in her upcoming memoir "Out of the Corner."

In an interview with People, Grey recalled the aftermath of the second nose job where movie star Michael Douglas failed to recognize her at a premiere.

"That was the first time I had gone out in public," Grey said. "And it became the thing, the idea of being completely invisible, from one day to the next. In the world's eyes, I was no longer me."

Grey added that she had "resisted" trying to get a nose job for many years after her mother suggested it to help the actor get cast in more roles.

"I really thought it was capitulating," Grey, now 62, told People. "I really thought it meant surrendering to the enemy camp. I just thought, 'I'm good enough. I shouldn't have to do this.' That's really what I felt. 'I'm beautiful enough.'"

She told People that both her parents had undergone rhinoplasty to assimilate themselves.

She continued: "But when I was a kid, I was completely anti-rhinoplasty. I mean it was like my religion."

According to the Independent, Grey speaks further about the impact of the surgery on her life and career in her memoir.

"I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was banished from the kingdom. That's a lie. I banished myself," she writes in her memoir, according to the Independent. "Overnight I lose my identity and my career."

"Out of the Corner" is out on May 3.