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To be appalled at Catherine Zeta-Jones' face?

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Supercompetitivesibling · 06/08/2025 19:21

We've been waiting to watch season two of Wednesday and when we saw it today we were all really shocked at the state of CZJ's face. My children struggled to recognise her!
She's obviously had a facelift between S1 and S2, but it was really badly done. Her lips are all stretched out and her eyes are pulled up to her hairline. She looks like she is heading into Jocelyn Wildenstein territory.
It's really sad, because she was always such a pretty woman and it was good to see an older woman (not 20-something) looking amazing in a TV show.

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2021x · 07/08/2025 00:35

Arlanymor · 06/08/2025 22:48

What? It's a normal action to call someone's alleged face alterations 'appalling' - what world do you live in? I'm not her PR by the way, just a normal person who doesn't believe in being nasty.

Its very clear that the OP is saying that the work that has been done is appalling not that her face is appalling. CZJ is an objectively attractive women, and a surgeon has acted in a way that reduced that attractiveness.

Only someone trying to create a drama would think that the OP meant anything different.

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:37

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JackGrealishsBobbySocks · 07/08/2025 00:38

Weaponised kindness. I thought that shite had died out with Jacinda Ardern.

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:38

Arlanymor · 06/08/2025 22:48

What? It's a normal action to call someone's alleged face alterations 'appalling' - what world do you live in? I'm not her PR by the way, just a normal person who doesn't believe in being nasty.

Yes, when they objectively reduce the attractivenss of a very attractive person, but making them look less human like.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:40

She looks fine she has gotten older that's all. The same thing happened with the other actress who is in the film Bridget Jones Diary. It's as if people can't get over the fact that women do age. People claimed she had surgery and she didn't.

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:41

JackGrealishsBobbySocks · 07/08/2025 00:38

Weaponised kindness. I thought that shite had died out with Jacinda Ardern.

Tell me about it. "A different kind of power.... " give me a break.

She was a great leader, and a politician why does she have to portray herself as anything other than that.

Kind people don't talk about 'kindness' they talk about distress and discomfort but demonstrate kindness. Brave people talk about fear and demonstrate bravery etc..

Judge others by their actions not their words.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:41

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She looks fine to me show me a photo of your face and let's scrutinise it.

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:42

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:41

She looks fine to me show me a photo of your face and let's scrutinise it.

As I have said, I have chosen to not go into an industry that requires me to show my face to sell films.

Therefore your argument is pathetic and baseless.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:45

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:42

As I have said, I have chosen to not go into an industry that requires me to show my face to sell films.

Therefore your argument is pathetic and baseless.

She looks fine she's a woman in her 50's how do you want her to look? She's going to age should she look the same forever.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:46

I want to see some photos

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:47

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:45

She looks fine she's a woman in her 50's how do you want her to look? She's going to age should she look the same forever.

The argument is about the cosemetic surgery she has had done that has changed her face. This was unnecessary and has caused her to look less human like and has had the opposite effect that was intended.

It is not about her face as a 55 year old woman.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:54

2021x · 07/08/2025 00:47

The argument is about the cosemetic surgery she has had done that has changed her face. This was unnecessary and has caused her to look less human like and has had the opposite effect that was intended.

It is not about her face as a 55 year old woman.

She looks fine and it's up to her what she has done she doesn't need your approval.

BadDinner · 07/08/2025 00:55

I think she looks great! I think she can probably still walk into a room and draw attention, perhaps more attention in fact than an averagely pretty younger woman in the same room. I'd certainly notice her.

Catherine Zeta Jones is one of those women who unfairly was gifted the entire package, in my opinion she never was just face-pretty, she also has an attractive bearing and energy. When a woman has that she can be 80 and you still know the woman in question was a knock out in her youth because you can still see it.

When we use the term that a woman is 'loosing her beauty' we are predominantly talking about the overwhelmingly forceful sexually beguiling beauty associated with fertility.

But it's not that a woman 'looses' her beauty. They are often still beautiful. If you measure them more appropriately against women in their age group you see they often haven't actually 'lost' anything and are still beautiful.

It is this ridiculous and totally impossible fantasy that a woman of 50 should still compete with a woman in that peak fertility zone of attractiveness in their 20s/30s that leads to aging women feeling huge pressure to eliminate of all signs of age or desperately trying to prevent it from ever showing. An ultimately futile endeavour. I never used to care but it's been totally shocking to see minor non-celebrity influencers I follow, routinely having fillers under their eyes to vanish circles etc. It even started making me feel insecure. Overall I'm glad I just missed this current train by a couple decades. The pressure is awful.

I now look at beauty over time as a standard, meaning that for me, the most beautiful woman in the room is now often a much older woman whom you can see still has that 'something'

Honestly when you look it at it that way you start seeing so many beautiful older women and you just see them as beautiful without qualification.

I was on the bus the other day, heading into central London. A lady got on the bus, dressed simply in green scrubs. Looked like hospital garb, she had her lanyard round her neck, hair back in a bun. She looked to be in her 60s. She was gorgeous. Beautiful facial structure, lively eyes, elegant poise, only jewelry was a pair of gold studs. She had that intangible 'something'

Besides myself, there were some teens and a few twenty something's on the bus. She eclipsed us all. Unfortunately she got off the bus before my stop and couldn't give her a compliment.

That's not to say I think it's wrong to point out when an actress has had so much work done that they no facially no longer resemble what they used to or it's totally distracting (Meg Ryan...why😩?) But I don't think CZJ fits into that category...yet.

CyanMaker · 07/08/2025 00:57

I saw her on live tv show just yesterday and she looked absolutely beautiful. One of the young men sitting next to her during the conversation looked spellbound by her.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:59

CyanMaker · 07/08/2025 00:57

I saw her on live tv show just yesterday and she looked absolutely beautiful. One of the young men sitting next to her during the conversation looked spellbound by her.

Morticia has confused them

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:00

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 00:54

She looks fine and it's up to her what she has done she doesn't need your approval.

Its not approval.

Its an observation, and a poor reflection on the industry that someone that is so objectively attractive feels the need to have such extreme intervention that has detracted from her beauty and her talent.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:08

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:00

Its not approval.

Its an observation, and a poor reflection on the industry that someone that is so objectively attractive feels the need to have such extreme intervention that has detracted from her beauty and her talent.

Her talent hasn't disappeared and beauty doesn't last forever.

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:09

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:08

Her talent hasn't disappeared and beauty doesn't last forever.

But the surgery that she has elected to have on her face has detracted from her talent, and has made people focused on the beauty "that has been lost".

It has been lost because of the surgery not from her age.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:14

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:09

But the surgery that she has elected to have on her face has detracted from her talent, and has made people focused on the beauty "that has been lost".

It has been lost because of the surgery not from her age.

I just watched an interview her face doesn't look stiff. She was smiling and happy she looks gorgeous and I hope I look that good when I turn 55. I can't wait to watch the new series of Wednesday with my children.

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:16

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:14

I just watched an interview her face doesn't look stiff. She was smiling and happy she looks gorgeous and I hope I look that good when I turn 55. I can't wait to watch the new series of Wednesday with my children.

You see this is a PR answer.

Not addressing the central issue, and "spinning" it to promote a positive angle.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:19

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:16

You see this is a PR answer.

Not addressing the central issue, and "spinning" it to promote a positive angle.

Just accept she's getting older

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:20

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:19

Just accept she's getting older

This is about the surgery not about her age.

People are reacting the way they are because of the surgery, not because of her age.

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:24

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:20

This is about the surgery not about her age.

People are reacting the way they are because of the surgery, not because of her age.

What surgery has she said she's had?

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:33

Falseknock · 07/08/2025 01:24

What surgery has she said she's had?

Ahhh... the classic denial about surgery because it was all day procedures and she was never put under anesthetic.

I hope Management 360 are paying alot for the overtime.

The feedback for your bosses is the following

CZJ has had several noticeable interventions on her face in which it has changed her face so much that all that is being discussed. The general population of women are fed-up about being patronised by the male dominated entertainment industry about what makes an attractive middle-aged older women.

Examples of female perfomers that have managed to stay attractive to audiences but no extreme and obvious interventions allowing the audience to still engage are; Joanna Lumely, Angela Basset, Jodie Foster, Carrie Fisher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosario Dawson, Halle Berry and I am sure there are others..

2021x · 07/08/2025 01:36

Oh and Gillian Anderson... stunning in the Salt Path

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