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

[BeTheRabbit]

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.

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

Felt a real pang reading your opening lines.

Have a hunch that those 'beautiful women' you see out there probably feel like an 'utterly ugly bug' too, hence the attacks on their faces.

How we see ourselves is so rarely how other people see us.

Same goes for you too, OP.

I wonder where it will end? It seems to have become fairly commonplace for very young women to have fillers etc. At some point will society reach peak plastic and the ‘natural look’ come back in again? Or will the desired look become more and more extreme?

It looks freakish and everyone knows it's fake, whether your a celeb or a lass working behind Boots counter.

It is NOT a good look.

I'm amazed how ordinary lasses afford their physical upkeep. Country must be sinking in debt.

I just looked up the pics of CZJ.... What's going on with her earlobes?!

Boob jobs are no longer fashionable are they?

I'm trying to lose weight to get rid of my boobs. Hate it. Looks matronly and unfashionable with current trends.

Does she look like this?
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Men can look just as bad.

I think the trend for massive lips is ridiculous. I won’t mention names but so many of them look actually grotesque.

I actually think Michelle Keegan still looks amazing.

Jane Fonda is the only woman I can think of who looks amazing having had "stuff" done. She looks better than me and is over 30yrs older!

Cheryl has also ruined her looks.

Wow

CZJ looks like a waxwork but I’ve seen much worse. The Geordie Shore crew have totally ruined themselves - they look like 50 year olds trying to be 20 year olds - it gives the complete opposite impression of youth.

@LEELULUMPKIN for me I think although it’s not been admitted, Jennifer Aniston has probably had work done and she looks AMAZING. I’d be seeing her doctor.

If you had any idea how many people get stuff done and say nothing, you would be astonished. When it is well done and subtle, you don't notice much but the person looking well. I guarantee there are a few people in your office who have had something, guarantee.

We mainly notice those who have had a lot done and seem a bit distorted.

Lots of people actually want that fake look, massive lips etc.

It's good to talk about the reasons women don't feel good enough about themselves and want to always 'look better/younger/thinner' etc. There's a fine line between tweaking things in order to feel good, and where tweaking things due to not feeling good enough.

Sat in a meeting today with a beautiful young woman with an obvious lip filler job. It looked so strange and obvious and I just thought what a shame she felt the need to do that. At that age nobody seemed to do that when I was younger. I guess there's a 'look' that I just don't appreciate, but it often looks really weird.

I always think of Courtney Cox when I see/hear this question.

She was SO incredibly pretty - beautiful, really - throughout most of Friends.

I can only assume that with her bone structure she would have grown into an incredibly beautiful older woman - but obviously Hollywood doesn't 'do' older women.

It's such a shame, looking at her now, that she felt the need to stretch and plump her stunning natural features as she has done. I think she's almost unrecognisable now. But she really was genuinely beautiful before she had whatever work she's had done.

Haven't seen her lately but Demi Moore's previous plastic surgeries have been great.

The worst for me was Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Baby. I was so distracted by her face I couldn't enjoy the film.

I think the issue is that we compare how the surgery has gone wrong against youth and perfection, forgetting that time hasn’t always been kind in between. I suspect a number of people have had a series of minor surgical operations in between and think they weren’t noticed and also really like how they look afterwards. Then they do one too many and then another one to try to rectify it etc.

Now this IS great plastic surgery!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7908227/Girl-15-bullied-looking-decades-older-rare-condition-gets-new-face.html?ito=video_player_click

I saw Carol Vorderman on something earlier and it took a while to recognise her.

@HepburnKNotA Agree.

Helen Mirren has had plenty done but in a lovely subtle way.

Oh God re CZJ.

I find it distressing looking at Rupert Everett and Tom Cruise now. I'm sure they care.

@CrazyToast ah your post made me laugh. I work in IT with 4 men (that is our whole company) and I know for a fact none of them have had any work done (we're a very open office) but now I'm picturing them all with 'celeb' style cosmetic surgery and I'm giggling like mad.

I think the 'natural' look did come back into fashion slightly when the thicker brow became fashionable. People stopped waxing eyebrows to one hair thick and started to embrace a bushier brow, then it just went the other way and now we have crazy, crooked, Sharpie looking brows everywhere.