Actresses - Feel so cross - ruined by plastic surgery

[Thisisnotreallymyname]

Feel so sad - been watching TV and why is it that women ( in the main ) feel the need to absolutely ruin their faces with fillers, Botox, face lifts, to the point where they look deformed, or like they are wearing shiny masks.
Felicity Kendal last night on Graham Norton, Fern Britton on Mastermind, Sally Thomsett on Pointless Celeb........
Do they not see what we see when they look in the mirror ?
I’ve nothing against PSurgery, but my God, please know when to stop !

IABU - they look fine
IANBU -they look awful .

Because it's almost impossible to get work as an actress after the age of 40, unless you are playing a dying grandmother.

@gnomeisland

Actors. Female or male actors.

Pedantic and PC. We all know what OP means.

I just watched her on the Graham Norton Show and she didn't looked too altered. It's obvious she has had work done but it doesn't look weird.

The still photos in the newspapers OTOH make her look awful. They come from the same show, but they must have been altered in some way or a deliberate choice was taken to choose the most unflattering shot to make her look as bad as possible as, clickbait. Imagine how she feels today.

Our press are shameful.

I wonder if they regret it. I can't always tell if it is someone I haven't seen for a few years, but I saw Fern Britton earlier this evening and thought she looked strange.

There's a lot of things women do that don't make sense to me. Wearing shoes that hurt and that they can't walk or run in, wearing clothes that don't keep them warm or dry, having long fake nails that make doing things difficult, spending hours plastering their faces with make up, injecting shit into it. I'm not an ornament and I'm not going to disable myself in the name of looking good.
I doubt they care that I don't get it. I do find it all a bit depressing though.

It makes me really cross.
Not at all with those who do it but with our youth worship culture that means people feel under pressure to undergo plastic surgery and fillers and injections and whatever other nonsense. Old is not ugly.

@gnomeisland
...but there are still individual Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor, how does that work?

Felicity Kendal looked awful. Her top lip seems to have disappeared and she couldn’t pronounce her words properly.

I’ve been Googling Sally Thomsett as I thought she’d been struck down with something.

Watching Felicity Kendall, you remember her wonderful voice and great hair, neither of which have changed. I think it's a tragedy that women feel they need to do this

LindyLou2020

Nope. "Actresses" is a patronising belittling outmoded job description that implies a subset of the profession of actor.

Oysterbabe So true,agree with your every word

Yanbu op. I find it all very disconcerting and dystopian. And whilst I agree it is mainly women who are doing this damage to themselves, I was struck by how "done" David Schwimmer looks on a recent tv ad.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Fuck knows.
All the female actors in the UK I know loathe the term actress.
But hey, I just herd sheep....

I think it's really sad actually, although I can well imagine the pressure and if you move in circles where everyone is doing it it must be tempting.

I really like seeing celebs over 40 who (I don't think) have had any. Naomi Watts looks lovely and like she is aging, but looks really healthy.

@MistleTOEboughski

I think we are still judging them on appearance which is what created the need for plastic surgery in the first place. Stop being so judgemental of looks.

Daft comment.

I also find it really sad, and so distracting. It’s just so unnatural, particularly when there are fillers to the upper lip.

@OutComeTheWolves

I'm more cross that there still exists a culture which encourages this. If women didn't feel the pressure to barely look like they'd aged, less would resort to Botox, fillers etc.

Absolutely.

When I watched a recent tv series with Nicole Kidman her plastic surgery really distracted from her performance as it was impossible for her to make any normal facial expressions. It's such a shame, particularly as she was playing the part of a late forties lady which is roughly her actual age.

Actors (male & female) both do this (as do many non actors). Sad to think that even successful people feel the need try and conform to what society considers beautiful.

@MamaNewtNewt, When I watched I see you and first saw Helen Hunt I honestly thought that they had made her look old as part of the plot. I was then waiting for flashbacks to see her looking 'normal'. I just saw Sally Thomsett on Pointless and just thought, God she must be ill. Saw Felicity Kendall pic in today's paper and thought she looked a bit 'rubbery'. Blimey ladies just grow old gracefully (like I have had to do!)

They really can't win. Just look on threads on here about people choosing to grow their grey hair out, they're full of posters saying how ageing it is, as if looking your age is a bad thing. If people who aren't in the public eye are getting this advice imagine the pressure being in the public eye.

If you try and look younger you get slated, if you don't do anything to make yourself look younger you get slated.

See I reckon that looking unnatural is the desired look for some, as it means that no one else will look like them (unless they have the money...), so it creates an exclusive club almost, and helps keep them on a pedestal of unachievablity. I also don't think that true natural beauty can be matched by surgery, so it's almost better to go the other way.

Plastic surgery imo is only good if it's truly what the person getting it wants, and they don't feel societal pressure, or aren't working on insecurities that won't be fixed by surgery. Obviously it's hard to untangle those from each other!

@ladyslattern

I saw the beautiful Helen Mirren doing a Christmas charity appeal. Her face didn't work properly. Tragic

It really is sad. We've been watching Teen Wolf (late to party!) and we loved Alison Argent played by Crystal Reeve. She's absolutely gorgeous in it but again distinctive (as is Holland Rosen). DD googled her this week and I'm sure she's had work too. She looks so generic.

It's such a fucked up industry

Because (for example) in 1988 Sally Field played Tom Hanks' love interest in Punchline. Less than 10 years later, in Forrest Gump (1994) she played his MOTHER. That's why female actresses are terrified of ageing...

I feel more sad about the younger girls who have overdone the fillers and tattoos tbh.