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 .

I wonder if, because plastic surgery has become so normalised within certain groups you would feel odd if you haven’t, or you forget what people are supposed to look like. It must skew your perspective.
I do imagine it can be addictive as well.

The blow up doll look seems to be lauded (massive lips and boobs, surprised eyebrows) and again, if all your friends look this way that’s your normal. Out of nosiness if you have a lot of fillers in lips and cheeks do you have to keep them up? What happens if you stop, would the skin stay stretched? Does it take even more work to maintain?

There are a couple of young women I work with who’ve had lip fillers and it’s ruined their faces, they really were very attractive before but now they look sort of out of proportion and sore. So in that sense I’m sad that celebrities do it because it normalises it for everyone else.

Thing is, if older ladies like Felicity Kendall continue to attempt to look younger and bring their looks into the equation, rather then talent, it keeps that particular ball rolling..
The likes of Judy Dench and Dame Maggie Smith continue to get roles without pissing around with their faces.

The trend for younger ladies i find really weird, as they all end up looking like clones, where's the individuality or character?

Why are you cross with the actors? They are victims of a society that treats older women like shit. You're blaming them for the sexism they experience.

But if famous successful people can't push against this who can?

@gnomeisland

LindyLou2020

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

A ‘subset’? Give over

@SelkieQualia

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

You do know this is complete and utter bollocks, don’t you?

One of the hardest working actresses around is Judi Dench - over 80 and untouched face. Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton - shall I go on?

I wondered if Sally Thomsett was on steroids. She had the typical balloon face and her abdomen looked very swollen, to the point where I wondered if she has ascites or a tumour.

Another contestant - Lindyanne something - on the other hand, had obviously had a gallon of Botox and was rigid from the eyes up.

I don't like to name names but some people have such severe plastic surgery they end up looking like the joker from Batman with their mouth stretched.
It's their face , so their choice but sadly , it's not an improvement to an already beautiful face.

@gnomeisland

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

I agree with @purpleraindance FFS give over!

What a load of rot. I will always say ACTRESSES for women. And ACTORS for men. No amount of naff, PC, finger-wagging is going to make me call them all actors. It sounds ludicrous.

Even some actresses hate it. Maureen Lipman said in an interview (last year,) when someone called her an actor 'I'm an ACTRESS, a fucking ACTRESS! Not an actor!'

Whatever makes them happy to be honest. It's their face after all!

MissLucy so I'm supposed to feel sorry for mega rich A-listers whose future Hollywood role options might be slightly more curtailed? There are plenty of great (female) actors who haven't gone down the plastic surgery route. Those that do contribute to a toxic culture for all women and girls. We all have choices to make.

Lip filler should be illegal. It’s the worst thing people have done. So distracting and unnatural.

I think Courtney Cox is the worst example of bad cosmetic surgery. She literally ruined her beautiful face. How is that hanging onto youth? To make yourself look older and stranger? I don’t get it. I know she was pregnant in the last season of Friends but her face looks completely different.

YANBU especially because it creates body dysmorphia in young teens and adults. More for girls than boys, but boys are catching up as more actors resort to plastic surgery. Actors and Actresses are now more often used than models to advertise magazines, and products to young people. They see their “look” from a very young age and imitate it...but that “lip plumping” gloss isn’t going to give you lips that have filler like your teen idol actress has. So these vulnerable youngsters end up thinking they are abnormal and ugly. When they aren’t at all. It’s terrible the impact of all the plastic surgery has on them.

@PracticallyFloored

MissLucy so I'm supposed to feel sorry for mega rich A-listers whose future Hollywood role options might be slightly more curtailed? There are plenty of great (female) actors who haven't gone down the plastic surgery route. Those that do contribute to a toxic culture for all women and girls. We all have choices to make.

Name one.

Some may look more natural than others, but they've all had work done if they're over 45.

I saw Felicity Kendall in newspapers yesterday referring to her looking stunning at 74 and was absolutely horrified at how she looked. She doesn't look younger - she does look deformed as a PP stated. I also agree about Simon Cowell looking awful. So many of the people who have work done look far better beforehand. The worst are those that have their lips plumped up ridiculously big. It is as if they really have no concept of what they have done to themselves.

Name one.Some may look more natural than others, but they've all had work done if they're over 45

Just did RTFT.

Not just women, Billy Crystal looks like a really bad waxwork of himself.

As PPs have mentioned, Nicole Kidman in the Undoing just had an expressionless mask for her face whereas Hugh grant has wrinkles, grey hairs & a paunch.

The recent photos of Demi Moore are actually frightening, I can't fathom what she's done or why.

It's such a double standard for men vs women & so unfair for women to feel under so much pressure.

I watched Pointless tonight too and thought Sally Thomsett looked very strange and very different. I wondered, due to her face and the fact that she was sitting down, if she's been unwell but I think a lot of her 'look' is down to surgery and fillers. It's a shame as she was very pretty before.

Tentimes if you read the thread other posters have already named more than one for you

@picklemewalnuts

Felicity Kendal has always been so beautiful! I'm sad she's done that. I watched a film recently, brilliant female cast- Julia Roberts, Gwynneth Paltrow etc. I barely recognised them. They no longer look like themselves.

I'd say Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow don't look like they've had obvious work done. What film was it? I might be missing something.

Some may look more natural than others, but they've all had work done if they're over 45

I suspect Charlotte Rampling and Catherine de Neuve probably haven't had work done.

They look like attractive women in their seventies.

I wonder if it's more a French thing to grow old with style?

Where are our middle aged or older female heros in books or films? The 40 something Katniss, the 50 something Bond? Warrior Queens? Older women, of different nationalities playing the lead heroic roles, and I don't mean done up in a wonder woman or cat woman suit.

I hate the fact that women are carving up their faces whereas men age without any pressure whatsoever.

This is partly biological but mainly social pressure. It’s appalling

@CookEatRepeat

I feel sad that Felicity Kendal has done it. She is such a natural beauty it is a shame she can't feel comfortable with ageing.

She's been doing this for years and years. She said "I'll have to stop when bits of me don't match".

I don't know the science but logic suggests to me that if I had fillers, when they wore off, the skin would sag?