I’ve always thought so too, though I couldn’t put my finger on it. An article says she had eyebrow transplants. That is one procedure I would absolutely have done if I could afford it.
Yeah, I firmly agree that folk can do whatever they want with their bodies. I just don’t know what some people are going for - especially in light of the MANY obvious examples of PS gone wrong. And then, why do producers/directors HIRE folk w/ such unnatural altered features. Do they think it films well? Do they think there is a audience sector wanting that look?
Curiously, a couple of eps later the same show had a guest actor
whom I believe was a year younger than the previous actor I linked. Her face looked FAR more natural than the other woman. She was similarly playing a professional (psychologist) of some maturity.
I assume casting directors/show runners - whoever does the hiring of talent, has plenty of options of whom to hire, and could either hire someone with plasticky unnatural features. or more normal features. I wonder why they would hire the more plasticky look.
And for the actresses, do the ones who overdo it think that will give them more opportunities than their more natural appearing competitors?
Sorry but Christie Brinkley looks like a clown to me. The chipmunk cheeks are weird. She looks better now than when she first had the work done and it hadn’t settled in yet.
That particular picture of Jane Fonda isn’t too terrible, but she still looks like someone who’s had a shit-ton of work, especially on Grace and Frankie. Her lips are fake and her cheeks are implants.
Martha Stewart looks more natural.
There are movies I’ll avoid just because of the actors/actresses involved. If a lead role has had (obvious) work done, I won’t be able to concentrate on anything else.
I call it “The NIcole Kidman’s Forehead Effect”.
She seems to get a lot of work, as a matter of fact she has twice the credits than the actress you were comparing her to. Although she looked vaguely familiar, I could not place her in anything I had seen. When I looked her up I found she was in 5 tv series that I watched all or part of. Even knowing that, I can’t place her in any of them.
IMO they definitely overdid the cheeks. Pare those down 50% and she’s no longer freaky-looking. In all other aspects she’s damn hot. Despite being a few years older than me.
Love her or hate her…Jane Fonda looks pretty good at 83.
Personally. I still want Martha Stewart’s plastic surgeon. She looks amazing. I think Christy Brinkley did look a little overdone for awhile (maybe too much filler) but she looks better now and like herself. She always had the chipmunk cheeks.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fphotos%2Fchristie-brinkley-80s&psig=AOvVaw0KEMV-NiYJHFYffCsqfOLE&ust=1618728384281000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqGAoTCLD46qTXhPACFQAAAAAdAAAAABDNAQ
It really depends on the picture and pose.
From last year: (warning - scary) https://www.plasticsurgerypeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/christie-brinkley-2020.jpg
This year:
Simon Cowell caught a lot of flak when America’s Got Talent came back on last year because he looked, to many, like he had had a lot of plastic surgery. I thought he looked a lot better, mainly because he cut out sugar and lost a bunch of weight. However, it is true(I believe) that he had surgery.
I believe this is him in 2020.
He has now had a major back accident, but I think he has almost fully recovered and is back up and about. I haven’t seen him since August of last year, though.
An article in the recent Macleans magazine says a lot more people want to get plastic surgery and are specifically referencing Zoom as a reason why. I presume this means it is largely referring to rhinoplasties, facelifts, Botox, double chins and chin shaping surgery.
From the two photos I wouldn’t assume surgery. When I lost a lot of weight my face looked significantly different.
You think this is a good look?
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She’s really overdone the lips. We’ve been watching Grace and Frankie since it started in 2015, and although it was obvious she had had plenty of work, it was more or less natural looking, like the picture in @psychobunny’s link.
But in the last season she really jumped the shark. The picture above really doesn’t show how unnatural she looks now. It’s really a shame.
I haven’t seen a picture of her lately, but she looks perfectly fine there and not in uncanny valley territory I see from even much younger actors.
Yeah, I couldn’t find a picture that really made it clear how bad she looks. Maybe things have settled a bit or they’ve hidden or redone the worst of it, but take my word for it, it was bad.
Those lips and cheeks are quite unnatural for a woman of any age, much less 83.
IMO we’ve just become accustomed to seeing quite unnatural lips & cheeks on older celebs. So only the most grossly unnatural, exaggerated, or malformed examples look “uncanny” to us.
I thought for sure that this thread was bumped because of my comments about Jennifer Coolidge in the thread about “The Watcher”. Don’t know if it’s plastic surgery or not, but something is definitely not right with her face.
My wife watches a lot of Real Housewives on Bravo. Most of the women look grotesque to me. I know what Denise Richards and Lisa Rinna looked like when they were younger, so their current incarnation looks like an alien tore off their skin and is wearing it like a suit so as to pass themselves off as a human.
I suspect that sort of “Hollywood” plastic surgery is less about turning back the clock as it is about projecting an air of conspicuous consumption. Sort of the facial equivalent of a gaudy McMansion.
I also suspect that many celebrities get these features because of how they photograph or show up on camera with all the lighting and makeup. Nicole Kidman looks very weird to me off screen (again, because I know what she looks like when she was in her 20s and 30s). And yet, she appears normal enough in her various roles on film.
I find most of the plastic surgery to be creepy as these women age and try to keep looking like they are 30 (men too when they do it).
Also, is it just me or are hands the one dead-giveaway? No matter how much Botox or collagen injections and whatnot the back of the hand just seem to show age that cannot be hidden.
I live in an area with lots of wealthy older women, almost entirely not celebs. Facework is all but de riguer in the high-7-figures-and-up net worth crowd.
ISTM that as a 40yo they want to turn back the clock a bit so have something minor done. Which ends up not aging like the rest of them does. So they get it fixed or improved or … Each move slowly walks them farther and farther from “normal-looking” for any age, much less for their own ever advancing age.
Now you’re 68 or 72 and you’re facing two choices: keep aiming for the young look and become ever more grotesque at it, or change goals and aim for older but natural loooking and also end up looking a different sort of grotesque.
It seems the only way to win this game is not to play.
Although as you suggest, seeing a grotesquely modified older face does send a very clear signal of “I’m rich!” Which may be the whole and entire point by then.