Are celebrity faces getting bigger?

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I've been noticing for a while now that when watching something, and i'ts mainly US actors but are their faces growing or am I losing my mind?
I've looked at photos a then and now comparison but I can't see much difference though photos are easy to alter. Two I've noticed recently are Nicole Kidman and Kristen Bell. (I've been watching Undoing and The Good Place) It's very distracting when trying to watch I keep comparing the faces between the staring cast and support cast.

Is this the natural result of using fillers? Does everyone's face get larger as they age? Or am I mad and no one else has the foggiest what I am on about.

I would have thought that due to collagen loss when older, faces would get smaller rather than larger, I assumed that’s why we think our noses and ears have got bigger, they haven’t, our faces have just shrunk with age. If a face has got bigger with age I would imagine it would be weight gain or fillers or a combination of both. I agree with you OP ,but it’s not just older men and women, I saw a clip advertising Towie and the young women’s faces were so full of filler they actually looked heavy, like they were filled with cement.

Yes this is so true

Goldie Hawn always had a big face and a tiny body, like a parking meter.

We are just watching the Christmas Chronicles with Goldie Hawn and get face is huge yes! But I googled her and she's 75, she must have had so much work done.

It’s got to be fillers. Humans are (mostly) naturally very attuned to how other humans look and if something seems off, hence the uncanny valley effect. While fillers can only realistically be a adding a few millimetres of padding to a face we perceive it as making their face look huge.

@motorcyclenumptiness

Fillers and Botox and more fillers? I'm struggling to follow the plot of the Undoing because Nicole Kidman's face is so distracting. Nothing moves with the muscles provided for the purpose - she seems to be operating her enormous top lip with her hamstrings. Meanwhile Hugh Grant - all glorious wrinkles and wonky teeth - looks like the portrait in her attic, but at least he doesn't have to throw his head back to open his eyes.

I couldn’t agree more!

I’m watching The Undoing and it is ruined by Nicole Kidman. She has only one expression! Something exciting happens, a plot twist, they pan to Kidman and....... absolutely nothing. It’s giving me the rage because this is well written, grown up TV and it’s like having a marionette at the heart of the story.

There was a big reveal at the end of the last episode, something horrifying and her expression was so fixed, it looked like she was trying to choose from a selection of cheeses at the supermarket. 🙄😱

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Re: Nicole Kidman's expressions in The Undoing--"something horrifying and her expression was so fixed, it looked like she was trying to choose from a selection of cheeses at the supermarket."

That made me properly LOL! You're definitely not wrong there.

when ally mcbeale was on, I remember people talking about lollipop heads, as in people that were so thin and small that it made their heads look oversized

You've spent too long in lockdown OP, your brain has started to eat itself.

(Having read the whole thread I am starting to agree with you though)

There was a big reveal at the end of the last episode, something horrifying and her expression was so fixed, it looked like she was trying to choose from a selection of cheeses at the supermarket. 🙄😱

This has made me laugh so much.

BUt I totally agree with the OP - I was I was transfixed by Nicole Kidman's jaw in the last episode of the Undoing - it just looked so big and out of proportion to the rest of her face.

Its to do with camera lens changes over the years. This link shows you someone's face through various different lenses, it really makes a huge difference.

nofilmschool.com/2011/11/lens-choice-affects-subjects-appearance

There was a big reveal at the end of the last episode, something horrifying and her expression was so fixed, it looked like she was trying to choose from a selection of cheeses at the supermarket

When the script calls for her to express an emotion all she can do is twirl her eyes furiously like she's trying to contact the spirit world.
It's so weird and sad and wrong that women especially are expected to look like eternal teenagers.

@motorcyclenumptiness

There was a big reveal at the end of the last episode, something horrifying and her expression was so fixed, it looked like she was trying to choose from a selection of cheeses at the supermarket When the script calls for her to express an emotion all she can do is twirl her eyes furiously like she's trying to contact the spirit world. It's so weird and sad and wrong that women especially are expected to look like eternal teenagers.

Yes that’s right, motorcycle whirling eyes and mad blinking 👀

Hugh Grant looks every minute of his age and that’s fine for the Male lead! Such double standards, and to be fair to Nicole, her choices probably protect her income in a savage industry.

It’s the first time I’ve noticed ‘work’ to the detriment of what I am watching.

I was quite shocked more recently at a few of the reality series like the housewives of this or that state in the USA how very big their faces looked in proportion to their tiny bodies, especially the older ladies. Madonna looked like a different person in recent photos, its really like trying to inflate a balloon to smooth out wrinkles, when on earth did wrinkles become bad? Are there no age appropriate roles on TV or in movies??? Who tells these people they look good?