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Renee Zellweger. Is this really her?

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BatsCantTwerk · 21/10/2014 10:43

Here

How different does she look!

She could walk past me in the street and I wouldn't bat an eye Confused

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Birdiegirl · 21/10/2014 18:24

I can't believe how different she looks. It took me ages to realise that that was her in the pictures as I was just reading it online on the phone so I thought it was a picture of some random celeb (that I didn't know!). You would pass her on the street now and not realise it was her. Don't get me wrong she does look lovely, but she's lost all the features that made her her - if that makes any sense!

Truelymadlysleepy · 21/10/2014 19:10

I feel a bit sorry for her. The pressure on these actors to maintain their youthful looks must be horrendous.
no slobbing about in trackie bottoms eating Minstrels

goldvelvet · 21/10/2014 20:46

I've just seen her, it's so sad her eyes are what made her recognisable and unique from all the other cookie cutter blonde hollywood types.

She looks like Sarah Jessica Parkers sister to me I think it's he elongated chin.

crumpet · 22/10/2014 12:35

Well, she was never going to look as she did for Bridget Jones as she had to put on a ton of weight for those films, whatever else she might or might not have decided to do. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1383640/Bridget-Jones-Bridget-Bones-Renee-Zellweger-just-decide.html

chockbic · 22/10/2014 12:37

Her forehead looks to be frozen yet she still has the eye crinkles at the side.

A weird combination. Leave yourself alone Renee!

queenceleste · 22/10/2014 13:31

I think plastic surgery is the ultimate proof of the law of unintended consequences.

She was partly so attractive because of the eyes she thought so ugly that they needed to be changed. Oh the irony of that.

I think she appears to be a fragile personality in terms of her love life. she married that country singer for a week or something didn't she? And she seems to have spent years going out with troubled musicians/artists like

Jack White (brilliant but not necessarily optimum husband for a sensitive gal material) and

Damian Rice (Lawksamercy! she didn't need to tap into his bleak darkness while husband shopping!)

Jim Carrey (Oh Renee, that was never ever ever going to be a sane choice)

Kenny Chesney (married for five minutes... hmmmmm.... reason for split 'fraud')

Bradley Cooper (hmmm, not good for fragile lass)

Now back with some huge haired loon from her high school days or past?
Much better Renee, finally a small change of real happiness!

Bonsoir · 22/10/2014 13:38

The only real difference I can see in her appearance, apart from wrinkles (so I expect she has stopped the Botox) is that her eyebrows are au naturel these days.

Lweji · 22/10/2014 14:19

It's mostly the eyes. I suppose it depends on which part of faces we tend to look at the most.

Bonsoir · 22/10/2014 14:21

The slit-eyed, puffy-cheeked look that Renée Zellweger used to sport is the hallmark of excessive Botox etc (look at Carli Bruni when she was young and now for a great example of how horrible that look is). I think Renée Zellweger has just stopped doing all that - hence the "new" look which is actually the real her (and I think she looks a million times better now, personally).

OttiliaVonBCup · 22/10/2014 14:31

The eyebrows are really different.

She looks good though.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 22/10/2014 14:53

I don't think she stopped doing botox,I think she's got that 'disappearing eyes' thing like Amanda Holden has. The forehead becomes the prominent feature rather than the eyes.

NorbertDentressangle · 22/10/2014 15:01

I reckon it's not her, just some random woman posing as her to see who falls for it / to see how much a person can change appearance before other people refuse to believe it's them - it's a big experiment for a TV programme!

Grin

(and I'm only half joking!)

Wonc · 22/10/2014 15:13

I have hooded eyes. My GP has mentioned having surgery in the future due to possible vision impairment.
This has put me right off though. Not because I don't think she looks good. I do. I think she is beautiful inside and out, but I don't want to look like a completely different person.
I'd rather keep my smallish eyes thank you.

LilAnnieAmphetamine · 22/10/2014 15:19

I think she looks great and very natural. Her skin tone isn't hidden by thick make up, she has ageing around her eyes and she has rejected the over Botox and filled look from her younger days.

Obviously this is just a photo BUT she doesn't look bad- just different.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 22/10/2014 16:49

I think she looks anything but natural!

LilAnnieAmphetamine · 22/10/2014 16:57

How? She has lines and wrinkles, her skin tone and texture shows too alongside the shine from heat. Her mouth is EXACTLY the same. The other photos are studio stills and digitally altered.

She has probably had some filler in her cheeks but the rest is the skin and features of a woman of her age.

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noddyholder · 22/10/2014 17:10

I had a round fuller face when I was in my 20s and am 49 now and it is much slimmer and does look more haggard Grin I think she has just had her eyes done the more I look. Plus undefined brows unusual nowadays

Nancy66 · 22/10/2014 17:15

I don't see any difference with her mouth, chin or cheeks like some people are saying.

It is just the eyes being wider.

LilAnnieAmphetamine · 22/10/2014 17:22

I don't either Nancy. I think she looks fine and actually age congruous w/ regard to what passes for the mid forties in Hollywood these days.

VenusRising · 22/10/2014 17:36

I think even Charlotte Rampling has had an eyelid lift/ fat removal.

She definitely looks better now than a few years ago.

Nars make up and better lighting? perhaps, but she's kept her signature hooded eyed look.

Renee Zellweger. Is this really her?
Renee Zellweger. Is this really her?
TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 22/10/2014 17:45

Personally I think she'd look the exact same if she'd painted on her eyebrows. I don't think her skin / face looks weird. She just looks older and thinner to me in the same way that many people have more defined features in their 40's

It's laughable comparing a photo taken this week with a Bridget Jones pic taken in 1998. FFS - we'd all look unrecognisable 15+ yrs ago.

VoyagerII · 22/10/2014 17:50

I don't agree, most people don't look unrecognisable from themselves 5-10 years ago, which is what has happened here. Yes, your face changes a lot but things like the shape of your eyes and mouth are what do make you still recognisable, through weight change, ageing etc.

Tauriel1 · 22/10/2014 17:59

I read somewhere that she wants to adopt. I know she's 45 but maybe she's had a hysterectomy or health problems in the last few years.

Of course she's had eyes done too

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 22/10/2014 18:01

I just don't see it. She looks exactly the same to me just older especially her mouth if you look past the lipstick painted over the edges of her lipline.
Clearly I need to pay more attention to sleb twaddle Grin I just don't see it.....