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This website and I being what we are, there's no need to temper my judgment with emotion, but were I to do so, I would point out that she is the celebrity whose blatant manipulation of her appearance makes me sad for her clearly all-consuming insecurity and incapacitating vanity.

Plus I used to get told I looked like her and/or Marcia Cross. Both of them look like uppity alabaster statuary.

I'm so sad for what she has done to her face. I'm POSITIVE that she had left well enough alone she would be aging well, and still look beautiful today. The prettiest I have ever seen her was in Practical Magic (shut up) and I wish to God she could turn back and start over from there.
The forehead is bad (particularly for how it's pushing down her eyebrows, causing that angry stare), but even worse is that lip injection. There was nothing wrong with her lips. She wasn't known for them in the past, and now she's known for whatever the hell that tubular thing is she injected in them that has turned her upper lip inside out.
Plastic surgery makes me nuts. I can see removing jowls or something, or nipping some loose skin, but the unnecessary things these people are doing to their faces breaks my heart. And I don't reserve this judgement for women in Hollywood either...see Mickey Rourke, Burt Reynolds, and Kenny Rodgers. Men usually look better as they age (bastards)...why mess with it?

I don't think it is a lip injection. I think the appearance is too consistent. I think it's that cadaver skin roll abomination.

You leave poor Varla Jean Merman alone. She lost a hundred pounds to look that good while singing live onstage. Does the updated School House Rock canon mean nothing to you?

She has always scared me but now she looks like some unholy Kathleen Turner/Meg Ryan hybrid Homonculus.
And not in a good way.

She's at the tippy top of my list of actresses who render any movie unwatchable for me. I mean every movie. No exceptions. It's just...something. She BUGS me, and while that may say more about me than it does about her (clearly), I care not: She bugs.

That said, I think her mouth ...ish...thing issue is that she had a formerly "gummy" smile transformed somehow by anchoring the frenulum in her upper lip further down on the inside of her upper lip (my sister's a dentist, OK?)

Which, if true, is funk in the extreme.

To those who say Oh, well, poor thing is just trying to stay current with all the sweet young things swelling the ranks of actresses lately, I say If she's such a great actress (eye roll) then why does she need to machete her face to "stay current"?

She bugs.

The main reason that I tend to watch Practical Magic at least once a year is because Kidman and Bullock are just so darn pretty, and have such shiny, shiny hair.

Oh, and Aidan Quinn. Yum.

Personally, I'm not so concerned with Nicole's face as I am with her unwillingness to GO BACK TO RED. Why on earth would you want to be just another washed-out blonde? It worked for Emma Stone and Christina Hendricks, and it works for you, Nic. Get with the program.

AlloDerm ::urp::

I'm all for recycling. But, no.

And, I wonder, is the "biomaterial produced from tissues donated from human cadavers" what happens when you donate your body to science? Because I'm guessing that the donor had more altruistic uses in mind.

Nicole doesn't look any more 'done' than half the actresses in Hollywood. I've never understood all the drama about her plastic surgery. Maybe it's because she doesn't put her make-up on with a trowel. It's easier to see her work than someone's like Courtney Cox, who has 10 layers on war paint on whenever she's on the red carpet.

I'd assume something like 80-90% of 30+ yr old working actresses have tried Botox or fillers at least once.6-7 ago lip implants were all the rage, and a shit ton of actresses had it done. Now there's a lot of actresses who never smile on the red carpet because they don't want pics like the above being circulated.

OK, yeah, the lips look bad, but the woman who looks really bad now because of what I can only assume is either medical intervention, or many face punches by a heavyweight boxer, is Naomi Judd. Damn, she looks scary. She used to be pretty. No longer.

Kballs for an EE

StoatCat as well.

Between Nicole and Meg Ryan, I just don't know what to say. Nicole disappoints me more because she was my fellow curl girl. I loved her beautiful, red, curly hair. See what Hollywood does to people, Nicole?

I feel bad for these actresses. I mean Nicole's clearly got a problem-she's three "tucks" away from looking like a deranged cat. But here is the thing, what might start as "harmless" botox fix, always means a lifetime of "keeping it up" once you start, because otherwise your face starts to droop like Mary Jo Butafuco.

For many actressses, they are being pressured by the studios because of the scrutiny of 3-D filming and HDTV (DVD). I wonder how many of them would go this far if they weren't being told they can't get a job without it.

Its the grossest cultural phenomenon in LA. Truly is.

JuiceinLA

I need more words about "always means a lifetime of "keeping it up" once you start, because otherwise your face starts to droop". Does this mean that if you stop using it the muscles go slack?

OK, Beckylooo, whether you meant it this way or not, I say WORD.

I just absorbed all the Val Kilmer hate on the "Cheapest Actors in Hollywood" post, and this right here is giving me whiplash. Straight from "dude just gave up, lardass" to "trying way too hard, bitch"--no room for failure? Missing the mark? Fallibility?

Kilmer's ridiculed for letting his body go, then Kidman's mocked for going to great lengths to stay in Hollywood's rigid (see what I did there) YouthBeauty standard for employable women. What are the Pajiban guidelines for what celebs are allowed to do to their appearances, or allowed to not do to their appearances, as they age? Starting to feel like TMZ around here.

I'm happier when we focus our scathe and bitch on their acting choices (Blood Out? Yecch. The Danish Girl? Ble--well, actually that looks really interesting. Hemingway & Gellhorn Yawwn--no, that might be cool too. Shit. Oh, right, Just Go With It--now that is a piece of crap!!!) all you want, but this just feels low. Fondly do I remember when seeing Kilmer half-naked in a cage was a good thing, but I was twenty pounds lighter, myself.

In the pic fifth from the bottom, she looks like an evil Meg Ryan hybrid.

I'll never understand this compulsion. She was pretty and she stayed out of the sun. She would have aged well. A nice shade of her natural red, her natural curls, and very very minimal fucking with her face would have resulted in a very nice looking older lady.

i always thought she looked batshit crazy-scary myself.