To think Michelle Keegan has incredible genes

100% this. Women like MK are basically saying that their own natural beauty is not good enough and all this does is raise the bar for other women who will never look like that without the means to do so. At the same time we’re trying to teach our children that they are good enough. She will have to have some interesting conversations with her own daughter on this one day, when the daughter is old enough to notice the complete difference in her before and after photos and I wonder how she’ll play it.

Yes, yes I am.

Had to stop watching Ten pound Poms because her face and look is so incongruous with the period. She just looks too artificial and modern. Not convincing at all, to the point of being annoying to watch.

Can't see how anyone thinks she's gorgeous with an obvious worked on face. She was nice looking before all the work but now just average woman you'd see in the street with lots of make up. Nothing special.
No I'm not jealous before anyone says,😃 I hate plastic surgery and botox shite unless there is a medical reason.

@Porcelainpig

The general consensus I get from this thread is yes she is beautiful, but she has had a lot of surgery and non-surgical procedures. I don't think that's vile or unkind, it is just being honest about how she has got that beauty.

Why is it the most noteworthy thing about her though?

Seven pages of incredibly dull and non-illuminating comments about whether a woman in the public eye has had surgery or is naturally attractive? It's not that it's vile or unkind its just highly depressing that this is the most interesting thing people can find to comment upon about Michelle Keegan.

She may or may not have had surgery and various other procedures to augment her looks and enable her to work longer and make money (and possibly feel better about herself). Hold the front page. Women in showbiz have been doing this for nearly a century. Why is it worthy of this much comment?

I don't know much about Michelle Keegan (other than that her husband is a massive bellend) and I don't have strong feelings about her or her looks, she's a pretty girl, I couldn't really care less whether her looks are totally natural. But she is a competent and successful actress who has worked her way up from fairly humble beginnings for which she deserves credit. Can we really not find anything more interesting to say about her?

She wasn't naturally ugly though, she was pretty, and didn't need the surgery imo @Arraminta Hopefully she won't get anything else done.

How unbelievably shallow.

Do you think so?

I often wonder if I would prefer to have an old looking face or a weird alien plasticky surgery one. I always feel I would rather grow old naturally. But then the ageing process hasn't been too unkind to me. Yet.

When I look at friends I have known since we were children and see how much older they are, the ageing process seems rather beautiful. I suppose it's because I also see the child behind the ageing mask. it is so lovely.

Yes, it is an unobtainable look for young women, who are comparing themselves against the surgically enhanced pics, then feeling inferior, because they don't naturally look this way. They need to be aware that this isn't genetic.

There are women who are naturally very beautiful, and MK was pretty before of course.

I hope she doesn't get anymore work done, and overdo it. So many celebrities don't know when to stop, especially as they get older.

She was naturally very pretty when she started Coronation Street but she’s just another (of far too many) cosmetically altered celebrity faces.

The general consensus I get from this thread is yes she is beautiful, but she has had a lot of surgery and non-surgical procedures. I don't think that's vile or unkind, it is just being honest about how she has got that beauty. I think she's stunning too, but it's a bit unfair to try and convince people it is all genes and taking care of herself, particularly for other women who are feeling insecure about their looks.

Better to be beautifully fake than naturally ugly.

Of course MK is not bothered @Arraminta. Neither are most people by what we say on MN.

She's had work done.

However, I'd assume from that picture she takes after her dad. Her mother is not what I'd classify as pretty.

The women you mention are examples of cosmetic surgery done well. Blake Lively is another.

I don't think the same is true of Michelle Keegan. She looks 'fake' in a way that these women don't. My first impression on looking at her is that she's had a ton of work done, which really shouldn't be the case. If you notice the 'work' rather than the face, then it's too much.

Getting surgery and good makeup/ clothes is now an achievement?
I feel that way about the S and B board too where posters are receiving congratulations for face lifts.
And no, I am not jealous. Can afford surgery. Don't want or need it.

Nothing that can’t be fixed……😁

MK is the product of excellent genes further enhanced by excellent surgery and tweakments. She looks absolutely stunning.

I suspect she's not remotely bothered that some wimmin on here are desperately disparaging her looks.

If we had her bank balance we'd all look pretty good too. We'd all also look very similar with no character. My partner hates this look because of it. Nothing stands out amongst these women who go for full on cosmetic enhancements.

It's very much an achievement because she's worked on her looks and got surgery/good makeup/great clothes etc.

As many of the before and after pics in this thread shows, it's not all genetics.

To be fair though, I don't know why people are so obsessed.

Surgery etc can be good if it's subtle and well done. But it's an addiction, and before you know it, you look like Katie Price or Sharon Osbourne. It's so sad.

Okay. Surgery and starvation.

(Sorry! I couldn't resist it. Sorry Michelle. I don't mean it).

What a horrible phrase

One of DDs friends has just got lip filler. Like us, she is Indian. She doesn't need filler; she has naturally full lips like most S Asians.
It's migrated and gone all lumpy. She was a naturally gorgeous girl who now looks like a goldfish.
I really hate that these are the role models we have for women.

Yes, I'm also wondering just quite what the OP is aiming for here. Has she been back?

Michelle Keegan was pretty in a fairly 'average' way at the start of her career. Nice-looking, but you wouldn't pick her out as a stunner. Now she's basically bought herself a whole new face. Personally I wouldn't consider her to be beautiful now either. She looks very generic 'footballer's wife'. She looked better before.