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To think that a lot of genuinely beautiful people ruin themselves with plastic surgery etc?

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BeTheRabbit · 22/01/2020 17:47

As a self confessed utterly ugly bug I just can't understand it... There are truly beautiful women out there who do it to themselves time and time again and end up almost caricatures of themselves.

Just a thought after seeing the latest pics of Catherine Zeta Jones who was incredibly gorgeous. Not a caricature yet, but perhaps in danger of going there.

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Thisisnotreallymyname · 05/09/2021 23:13

I’m going to throw Joanna Lumley into the mix. Suddenly got a very tight jawline, swears she cuts her own hair …….. really ?

Owl55 · 05/09/2021 22:06

I find it really sad that young girls now feel the need to have synthetic lips and Botox , teenagers feel ugly and want these treatments , so many young women look like clones with big lips , big breasts and flat faces😱whatever happened to women’s lib !!!!

Bertiebiscuit · 05/09/2021 22:04

I agree - most plastic surgery just looks weird and creepy in the flesh - I often see quite young women with mouths like Donald duck - I can't imagine anyone finding that attractive

Bebethany · 05/09/2021 20:45

Chosennone, I had a gastric bypass so once I’d dropped 10stone I felt amazing and could breath normally, run with my grandchildren and sleep without snoring or stopping breathing! So I had my loose skin nipped and tucked an eyelid lift etc… I think and actually so does everyone else, look gorgeous!

starlilly88 · 05/09/2021 20:33

Joan Collins - amazing for 88
Pricey - turning into Catwoman

So sad that women can't just look their age. Men go grey and get called distinguished but when women do, they get called old by both men and women. I don't care if I look my age, that's my age!

Evan456 · 05/09/2021 20:14

I think one procedure is ok but its knowing when to stop, a lot all look the same

mamabear715 · 05/09/2021 20:11

Phew. Thank goodness I'm naturally gorgeous.
Just short-sighted. ;-)

Mistique33 · 05/09/2021 20:07

Today is so vulgar and obsessed with ourselfs appearance, children are being rammed with ‘perfection’ down their throats at every opportunity. There’s nothing more beautiful than a woman/girl who loves herself truly the way she is. Can’t blame children for what there being brain washed in, my niece who is only 17 has turned round and said she wants lip fillers, needless to say she watches crap like love island where these people are paid to indorse these big companies products such as fillers, Botox ect……..disgusting

Darlingx · 05/09/2021 19:58

The Swan in the US . Where some woman has a loser boyfriend who has dumped her . A team work on her . Credit card swipe cleavage check , tits bigger than a bouncy castle, hair extensions, lips plumped to labia glossed proportions , fake tan, weight loss , lazer eye surgery then they present her in front of the ex boyfriend ( out of the bandages) Would you consider going back out with her. He nodding enthused at how they have pimped his ride and then they have a prom reveal of friends and family Q close up of teary eyes. I can only watch and think wasn’t this part of Goebells masterplan and it looks like the plastic surgeons just carried the mantra . Every Surgeon seems to ignore their own advice and are allowed faces with Character. There is a Sebstian Tellier film set in the future where everyone is homogenised with surgery . It’s called Steak . As they say don’t over egg the pudding sometimes I think that it must be addictive like doing up the house. You have new floors now the cupboards look shit . It could just never end and I suppose a captive consumer is the ideal

Binting · 05/09/2021 19:56

@RantyAunty

This entire thread is sad. If you were more happy and fulfilled in your own life, you wouldn't feel the need to criticize other women.
Hear, hear… this is a horrible thread, being snarky about other women (and some unsuspecting men) and posting pictures of them to “prove” how horrible people think they look.
MargotsBumpyNight · 05/09/2021 19:54

It's a weird trend in Hollywood that when you reach a certain age you look like you're wearing a mask of your former self.

Bbq1 · 05/09/2021 19:50

@EmeraldShamrock

I think Jesy from lm looks great actually. Oh no she has ruined her face she is 30 but looks like Joan Collins. I saw a snap of her without filters and she better have a great surgeon or stop soon. Katie Price looks like Jessica Alves too.
I agree. Poor Jesy. Her face is all out of proportion, she looks like a skull. The saddest thing of all is she thinks she looks amazing Hmm
Chicchicchicchiclana · 05/09/2021 19:45

This is honestly one of the things that truly mystifies and floors me.

I mean, who does Madonna think she's kidding. Everyone on the planet knows she's well over 60. What is in her mind?

And everyone else who has bought into this madness - there are thousands of examples.

OhWhyNot · 05/09/2021 19:17

I think we are becoming accustomed to seeing so many women especially on TV that are heavily Botoxed that standards of what looks normal is changing

Gwen Stefanie her skin looks ridiculously tight and Chris Jenner’s

Ten years ago looking this way we would have all said they look a bit ridiculous now it’s well they don’t look quite as bad as xyz so they look quite good

Ddot · 05/09/2021 19:12

I need a bit doing
Eyelids
Lower facelift
Brow lift
Neck lift
Nose job
Teeth
Lip plumper
Knee lift
Liposuction
Boob job
😉

EmeraldShamrock · 05/09/2021 19:08

I think Jesy from lm looks great actually. Oh no she has ruined her face she is 30 but looks like Joan Collins. I saw a snap of her without filters and she better have a great surgeon or stop soon.
Katie Price looks like Jessica Alves too.

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Grapewrath · 05/09/2021 18:48

I think Jesy from lm looks great actually. I also think Kris Jenner does
Katie price has gone too far using foreign clinics and illegal substances- looks unwell
I’m not opposed or for, your face and your money

Ddot · 05/09/2021 18:42

I can understand a tweak here and there, but some go way too far.
Barry manilow 😱

Blooboi · 05/09/2021 18:12

@Gooseysgirl

Wow Shock
You should watch a program called prodigal son. It just finished the second season on sky. Catherine Zeta Jones plays a baddy and some of the close ups of her are just strange
HollowTalk · 05/09/2021 15:18

Nobody looks 30 years younger. I don't think many people can even look 10 years younger. People's faces are of their era - it's impossible to get past that.

IcedPurple · 05/09/2021 14:03

@PrincessHoneysuckle

Christie Brinkley looks 30 years younger than her age imo.
No she doesn't. She may look like that from a distance or with a very soft-focus lens, but close up she looks like a caricature of her younger self. She's clearly finding it very hard to accept ageing, and I find that rather sad.
IcedPurple · 05/09/2021 13:51

Definitely don't agree that plastic surgery never looks good - look up Blake Lively's nose job(s).

And the rest. The face we see was basically bought. Same with Megan Fox.

MorganKitten · 05/09/2021 13:50

[quote rosegoldwatcher]**@GrumpyTerrier* - As an aside, I don't believe there are any women celebs over 40 who havent had anything one. It is completely the culture in that world.*

Kathleen Turner is on record as saying, "Faye Dunaway once told me that if I did not start plastic surgery by the time I was 40, it would be too late. And I said, 'Well fine, I won't do it then.' I don't want to be a Cher, where my face never changes or moves."

She's late 60s now and looks as she should. But here's the thing; she still sounds like the sexiest woman imaginable and her interviews are insightful, witty and interesting.[/quote]
Kathleen Turner had an eye lift a few years ago and has spoken about considering more work.

IcedPurple · 05/09/2021 13:44

@MaxNormal

I suspect Helen Mirren has, she's got a very good jawline. But whoever did it did a bloody good job, and she's sensibly steered clear of the overfilled, over Botoxed look.
Yes, Helen has a jawline that a woman in her 50s (me!) let alone her 70s, would envy.

I think what's she done wisely is to not go overboard on Botox or fillers, although I'm sure she's had some done, and instead have jaw and eye lifts. She does look her age, and she does have wrinkles, but imo it's sagging and jowliness, not wrinkles, which are much more unattractive.

Ditto Sharon Stone. She's clearly had work, but it's been good work. Susan Sarandon is another.

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