I dunno, seems a lot of the changes here are makeup- lighter lips, lighter foundation and more natural eye makeup. Less blush and less eyebrow fill.
Plus, her face is “public property”. Her face is one of the reasons the public embraced her as an actress. We have every right to be bitchy with regards the results of her trying to improve her looks by artificial means. I wouldn’t say anything to her in person about how bad she looks(not that im likely to ever get that chance). However, I do reserve the right to be bitchy about it on an internet forum.
It’s a pity really. She seems quite a nice person. I can think of dozens of other celebrities I would prefer to have seen plastic surgery go wrong on.
Wow Cat Whisperer, that’s horrifying. I wonder if these people who get so messed up react to it like we do? Even the ones who just get a little sumpin sumpin done should know people are going to notice. (Isn’t that why they do it in the first place?) I don’t have a cite, but I remember Jennifer Grey saying her nose job almost cost her her career. Whoever mentioned branding earlier is right; it’s not that I think Rene looks bad exactly, she just doesn’t look like herself anymore.
You guys, it’s not plastic surgery.
Rene Zellweger responds:
So there you go. All she needed was some much needed rest.
When other people suffer an allergic reaction and their face gets bloated, they do tend to look like Renee Zellwegger. Then they recover and go back to how they used to look. An example is Julia Stiles. Maybe Renee has come out the other side of a lifetime of allergic reactions or some equivalent thereof.
Oh pooh, I have a friend I’ve known from childhood, who has the same Nordic features and has a similar heritage (she is a Sami and proud of it). She has looked the same from teen to 60s, she has aged very well, she was never fat although she gained a little during the years when she was pregnant a few times and then lost it when she hit her 50s. And she looked the same whether she was having a peaceful life at the time or not.
I’m guessing she had fat removed from her upper eyelids (above the eye but under the brow) and maybe cheek implants. I agree that she doesn’t look bad, but she doesn’t look like the same person. I wonder if she’s trying to avoid facial recognition software?
Close. She’s part Saami. (So is Joni Mitchell.) Renée is also part ethnic Finnish from Norway. If you look at a lot of Saami women, they share similar features with Renée, such as broad and high cheekbones. Renée looked right at home among them. Now, not so much.
That’s me too. I actually think she looks fine with her new face - if indeed it is her; it looks so unlike her that an elaborate Joaquin-Phoenix-style hoax isn’t off the cards - it’s just that this is a different person. She looks as much like Renee Zellwegger as I do. Actually, dye my hair blonde and I look more like RZ than this person does. So the main thing isn’t “women shouldn’t have plastic surgery,” or anything at all except “woah. Is this her?”
That’s a pretty proud ethnic heritage to have. By that I mean that the Saami have managed to live in extremely hostile conditions for a couple of millenia, and having the features, and probably some of the other genetic traits, of those hardy forebears is something to be proud of more than just having features from easier climates.
And it worked fine for, what, twenty years? Poor woman must be a bit body-dysmorphic to make herself change that much.
She looks better in some of those other links. She does look different, but of course it’s been a few years since Bridget Jones. I think a lot of the problem in the most recent photos maybe be the not-so-becoming hairstyle and color and the very neutral makeup palette. The foundation, shiny finish, and almost-bare look (along with they sparse eyebrows mentioned above) are not doing her any favors.
I don’t think women (or men) should have plastic surgery - I think they look so much better when they are aging naturally. You earn all those lines and grey hairs!
Leo LePorte on one of his webcasts last week mentioned that he has a tendency towards that, and insurance actually covers the surgery as medically necessary as the folds can droop so much that it impairs vision.
Bridget Jones has made an appearance again at Paris fashion week. She looks like she has reverted halfway to her old appearance. At least she is recognizable now.
My question is: did the surgery just settle in, or did she have something else done to “correct” it?