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To think Michelle Keegan has incredible genes

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namechangeagain4 · 22/03/2025 23:17

I mean, her mum is nice looking, for sure. But Michelle is next level!

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14510279/Michelle-Keegans-mother-Jackie-silence-birth-grandchild.html

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Realityofinvisibility · 23/03/2025 08:42

NotHavingAFunTime · 23/03/2025 08:38

Agree. It’s almost as if the thread was started just so everyone could jump on with the ‘she has had work done’ comments and pics. Nasty thread.

I don’t understand why people judge women for having Botox/fillers/surgery etc. it’s their choice it doesn’t affect anyone else ? Why so much judgment?

ThereWillBeGold · 23/03/2025 08:42

Bakedpotatoes · 23/03/2025 08:32

This woman has recently given birth and is getting ripped apart for her looks. So what if she's had some surgery - she looks incredible in my opinion.

Post partum is hard enough and if she were to come on here incognito to look for some advice and saw this thread, I'm sure she'd be upset. Sometimes this place is utterly horrible and this thread is a great example.

Exactly what I'm thinking. Thinking back to when I had my children, how emotionally and physically affected I felt after. If I'd read nasty comments about me, I'd have been really upset.

I always thought Michelle was stunning when I first saw her in Coronation Street years ago.

Tabitha005 · 23/03/2025 08:45

FancyNewt · 23/03/2025 04:36

She's a good actress and done well for herself. I think that's all that needs to be said.

I’ve watched a couple of series with her in them and thought she’s a very average actor. She was particularly awful in the series where Joanna Lumley played her MIL. Mind you, there’s precious few really bloody great actors around these days!

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Bakedpotatoes · 23/03/2025 08:48

NorthernGirl1981 · 23/03/2025 08:31

I imagine a lot of women on this thread have thought for a very long time that Michelle’s face and her looks are just a result of plastic surgery and that sadly she had ruined her natural beauty.

Why does the fact she’s had a baby mean that those opinions now have to change?

They don't have to change but post partum is a very vulnerable time and I don't really understand why people need to voice every last opinion especially on a woman who has recently given birth and is likely emotionally and physically exhausted. The old saying, if you don't have anything nice to say, should apply to a lot more things.

Realityofinvisibility · 23/03/2025 08:49

Bakedpotatoes · 23/03/2025 08:48

They don't have to change but post partum is a very vulnerable time and I don't really understand why people need to voice every last opinion especially on a woman who has recently given birth and is likely emotionally and physically exhausted. The old saying, if you don't have anything nice to say, should apply to a lot more things.

I agree completely. I’ve actually reported this thread as some of the comments are vile and so unkind

WhereIsMyJumper · 23/03/2025 08:50

Whether it’s genes or whether she has had work done doesn’t really matter to me. I find her so beautiful that I feel like it should be illegal to look that good 😂

Bathnet · 23/03/2025 08:54

She was never unattractive but she’s had LOADS of work done to her face

Tagyoureit · 23/03/2025 09:01

This thread is awful.

I like Michelle Keegan, I think she's beautiful and has always carried herself well with grace.

Her husband was a bit of a wally when younger but who wasn't? They both have worked for what they have so good luck to them.

notacooldad · 23/03/2025 09:01

The headline though!
Michelle’s mother Jackie ‘ breaks her silence’😂
What a load of cobblers!

brettsalanger · 23/03/2025 09:02

She’s had incredible surgery to make her look naturally beautiful

ssd · 23/03/2025 09:03

I didn't realise she's had so much work done. Bit like kyle jenner, very average looking girl, spent thousands getting plastic surgery, now she's gorgeous. Bella hadid is similar.

doodahdayy · 23/03/2025 09:03

She was always very pretty. This thread is very mean spirited when she’s just had a baby. Quite a lot of deluded posters thinking they looked similar in attractiveness to her pre surgery

PrettayGood · 23/03/2025 09:04

She’s had loads of very good work done. She was not particularly attractive before.

Wakemeupbe4yougogo · 23/03/2025 09:06

I see a desperately insecure woman who has completely changed her face to conform to a society definition of beauty. And the saddest part is that she already had it. I'd also guess she's so insecure still even after all that work that she hid herself away during pregnancy or covered herself with a huge coat unless she released a heavily photoshopped image or photo. When your entire reason for being is based on what you look like in the media, I'd say it's a pretty sad existence overall.

Sunnytoday01 · 23/03/2025 09:06

Tbf people are only commenting because the op started a thread which says Michelle Keegan has incredible genes when in fact she doesn’t!

Titasaducksarse · 23/03/2025 09:06

Everyone at work was going on about how stunning she is...yes she's lovely but boring looking in my opinion.

RosesAndHellebores · 23/03/2025 09:07

I think she looked better before the work.

strawlight · 23/03/2025 09:08

Hang on. OP said “she’s so pretty due to great genes” and people have replied “yes she’s pretty but it’s not just down to genes”. Why is that mean or unkind? It’s factual, no?

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 23/03/2025 09:10

I'm no stranger to a tweakment and I look better for them. Michelle Keegan was naturally pretty and after all the excellent work she has had done she is an absolute beauty.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/03/2025 09:10

Yes she's obviously had some work done , just compare the before/after pictures .
But she's a world away from the plastic looking women on Reality/Social Media TV ( looking at the TOWIE women -and men- in particular )

The Coronation Street era photos she was earlies 20s , they are very much give us a smile 'Chelle type she looks a bit gauche .
Now she's definately posing , using all the tricks of angles. lighting , making her face more elongated etc.

She was really good in Brassic , I watched "Missing You" but mainly 'cos I liked the coat she was wearing . Grin

Any photos now where the Papparazzi will be out trying to get a shot will either be "First time Mum looks knackered " or "Stylish Michelle Keegan showcases tiny tot in xyz (pick designer) pram" (ie she takes her baby out )

They court the Press , so they will need to expect some intrusion.

TeacherLily · 23/03/2025 09:11

She’s had work done.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that at all.

But it isn’t genetics.

BeFluentNavyBee · 23/03/2025 09:13

I think that Michelle looks beautiful and that whatever work she may have had done (and it seems quite a long list if the posts above are correct!) was obviously her choice.

It just sets such an unattainable standard for everybody else. I wish that I was as beautiful as she is, and it makes me sad about how I look. Which I know is silly but that's the truth 😢

NorthernGirl1981 · 23/03/2025 09:19

BeFluentNavyBee · 23/03/2025 09:13

I think that Michelle looks beautiful and that whatever work she may have had done (and it seems quite a long list if the posts above are correct!) was obviously her choice.

It just sets such an unattainable standard for everybody else. I wish that I was as beautiful as she is, and it makes me sad about how I look. Which I know is silly but that's the truth 😢

I agree - all it does it make some other women not feel good enough about themselves.

People express such concern about the famous female role-models we have in the media, that portray to our teenage girls and young women that looks are everything, they are what defines them, and that you can’t be deemed beautiful unless you spend thousands of pounds having surgery to change how you look.

The idea that looking like this is to be aspired to is so damaging to our young daughters, teenagers and vulnerable women.

All Michelle does is perpetuate this beauty-driven crap and she is then ironically being applauded for it on here.

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