Melissa Gilbert still looked good a few years ago when she guested on Babylon 5. She played real life hubby Bruce Boxleitner’s tv wife.
She’s got those huge botox lips now.
I’ll always remember her as half-pint on Little House. She’s almost unrecognizable now.
I’m such an idiot that I never till now made the connection between her and her sister.
And those lips. Ugh!
Frankly, I woulda preferred Kate Jackson in that role, but whatever.
Do Botox and collagen lips actually appeal to straight men and lesbians? I can’t see the appeal, but not being sexually attracted to women to begin with my view is probably biased, and when I imagine them on a good looking guy the result is usually comical or “shudder!”, so I’m curious whether others find them appealing on women.
Jeebus, that’s awful. Between the collagen and the face lifts, she’s starting to look like Joan Rivers.
At least she doesn’t resemble a praying mantis trying to disguise itself as a human female.
Not this straight man. I can’t explain the appeal of the procedure.
Maybe the lips gradually lose “plumpness” ad look closer to normal after some time. Dunno.
I disagree that Melissa aged badly. The problems with her appearance have nothing to do with aging, and everything to do with attempting to stop the appearance of aging. She might have aged beautifully, but we’ll never know with all of the work she’s had done.
I still think she’s a great actress who doesn’t get enough credit for the quality of her work.
Why do already attractive women keep doing this to themselves?
Also, wouldn’t the botox be in the face and some other filler, like collagen or hyaluronic acid, be in the lips?
How sad. I was on Kauai in 1997 and we were at the same hotel. She looked good then.
Right. Who could possibly be attacted to a man with full, pouty lips? The concept is absurd. Seriously though, beestung, Angelina Jolie-esque lips do occur in nature, they’re just uncommon. They can be quite attractive. I knew a girl in jr. high who had them, and thought about them quite often at the time.
Not that I’m defending their appearance as part of a bad plastic surgery experiment, of course.
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The bitch of it is, her husband, Bruce Boxleitner, has aged quite well, despite being about 60 years older than her. That’s gotta sting.
Her lips are a little over the top but not the worst I’ve seen. I think she looks nice.
Funny, when the window first opened for the link all I saw was “…I always kind of knew you were gay” and I assumed it was an article about her and Boxleitner’s divorce. At least I *thought *they were divorcing; maybe I have her confused with someone else.
His were natural though, and looked it, same as Lisa Rinna, whose lips are also big and pretty. (I have really big red lips myself, incidentally; in cold weather I’ve been asked before if I’m using lipstick.)
Angelina is on the cusp of attractive & unattractive natural lips; it’s a matter of personal preference. Her brother James Haven is a case of natural but unattractive big lips.
Loni Anderson is a major collagen queen, as is (in addition to mocking them in Death Becomes Her) Goldie Hawn upon occasion.
I cannot say that she is horribly unattractive, but she does have the signs of Too Much Work.
Stop fucking with your face, it will come back to haunt you. Look a couple of years younger for a couple of years, then look gawd awful horrible for the rest of your life.
I read parts of her memoir (sort of thumbed through the rest) and it makes me like her less than I did before (though to be honest I didn’t have a strong opinion of her either way before). She comes across as shallow, self absorbed, and hypocritical, while denying she’s any of those things.
Word. Botox would freeze her lips and fill in the little wrinkles on them, but it wouldn’t do that. That’s either collagen or maybe even a lip implant (they even have a fun lip implant that involves a piece of cadaver flesh!).
When are these white chicks going to learn: lip work NEVER, EVER looks real. Or even normal. EVER.
Past tense in real life. They separated last March and Melissa file for divorce last August.
Possible plastic surgery and botox for Melissa. Not bad for her age.
Although in one view here she must be related to Carrot Top.
I’ve seen much worse plastic surgery disasters. She looks like an attractive woman that got a little older and had some work done. Still attractive to me.
Boxleitner was supposed to appear at DragonCo n (huge sci-fi convention Atlanta for those who don’t know) over Labor Day but cancelled at the last moment for “personal reasons”. I wondered if it had anything to do with the divorce, which gossip mags are calling very acrimonious.
Her problem is that’s she’s too thin. Catherine Deneuve famously said, ”At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.” Women in Hollywood spend so much effort, for so long, staying thin, that I think they really, really have a hard time accepting that past that certain age, really thin=old looking.
