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wow, she's unrecognizable. Why do people feel the need to do that to themselves?
We are so close to hunger games style of extravagant.
Everyone just has to look more than everyone else.
That's what she looks like these days? My gods. Just be cool with aging, FFS.
If only it were so simple, particularly in a profession that is historically ageist. It's a fuckin shame what she did to her face, but there was no small amount of pressure from a number of angles that caused her to do that.
This. I do not understand the aversion to aging. We are all human.
Your face probably isn't your moneymaker, then
Nobody's making a dime in that face.
It's like someone tried to clean up a chemical spill with an ice pick and a vacuum.
You think she is only worth her face? Perhaps I begin to understand.
No, but the industry in which she works gives people, especially women, less work if they'll aren't at peak attractiveness. Less work means less money. I don't really know her acting beyond her Underworld movies, but it's less than compared to Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, Emma Thompson, and Helen Mirren. Those ladies have lasted because of their fantastic acting, despite letting their age show.
I'm not saying I agree with the industry's choice. I actually think naturally aging women are really beautiful and hate the fake looks. I'm just saying if she wants to be competitive in her industry, she may feel she needs to do it. Also, she might like looking young. I try not to judge people for it, it's just not my preference.
It's a picture comparing faces with comments talking about faces. Faces on actors are an important aspect. Faces do the talking. This isn't your "gotcha" moment unless your goal is to debate in bad faith. Holding someone to your beauty standards is no different than someone adhering to someone else's beauty standards
You use a term like "beauty standard" as if this is a real thing that applies to everyone and not something manufactured by an attention-based industry.
If people believe she is only worth her face, then I guess she is. Except, I don't think everyone thinks like that, even if people (especially those trying to exploit her labor) have made her feel like they do.
You should see Jessica Simpson now.
Going for the “MAGA face” fad! WOW!
None of us are in her orbit, she does not interact with an average person.
All the women in her circles look like that, and we all (to varying extents) want to look like the people around us. You don't even realize it, but it's a thing.
Now, what makes high level cosmetic surgery so bad, is that it is insanely expensive and done by world class surgeons. So rich women started out doing things that made them conventionally more attractive in subtle ways.
Poor people want to be like wealthy people. So they got the same surgeries done at a lower quality.
But older wealthy people want to look like current younger people they see. And for Hollywood that means young women who couldn't afford good cosmetic surgery but felt they had to get it and didn't want for their faces to finish growing first.
What were flaws then become intentional, and since it's easier and still being done by the literal world's best, the result comes out almost identical regardless of the face that went in.
We've went thru that cycle a couple times. But there's no signs it's stopping, shits gonna be real weird in a nother couple decades.
I call this the Jersey Shore Effect. Something starts out as an object of ridicule but through media saturation people are exposed to it so much, for so long, that it becomes normalised and then aspirational, purely through conditioning; it's in people's brain all the time so at some point they decide they like it.
It's the same way that music worked back in the days of radio: play something enough and undiscerning people just start liking it, because its in their head all the time.
because she started her career young and pretty, displacing older actors, and now she's terrified of it happening to her.
What fuck, it got to be mental illness. She was gorgeous, why did she fuck her face up? Does she seriously look in the mirror and thinks this makes her look young?
Yep. Smokin' to broken.
Sad times.
That's not wildly different. Different hair, plumped lips, heavier eye makeup, a decade of age.
Stung by bee lower lip
Not to be hypercritical of people's appearances but the lip procedures always make people look crazy and talk weird.
The poorly executed ones do. You aren't going to notice when someone has them done well unless you knew what they looked before.
Stop the presses! She got some lip filler!
/s
--She's 52 years old and frankly, looks fantastic.
Everyone's getting blepharoplasties lately. Her lips are looking like Kylie Jenner's now, too (nerve damage leaving one side higher than the other)
Yikes and I thought Lindsay Lohan looked worse. Has anyone seen what she turned into? It's out on display on that Freakier Friday cover.