What does that mean?
I want to say here that I am not averse to aesthetic procedures, including plastic surgery!
My position is: Whatever gets you through the night.
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Lifes hard enough, and if facial fiddling is music to your ears, have at it.
But, when the work is poorly delivered or over-delivered, outcomes can be sadly distorting and distracting.
Which leads, inevitably, to more scrutiny and objectification.
InMad About the Boy, 55-year-old Zellweger plays a single mother with a much younger love interest (28-year-old Leo Woodall).
How could you not feel for them?
Who among us wouldnt be tempted to succumb to the pressures that could enhance or destroy a career?
Still: Its impossible to look at them without their facial work being the first thing you notice.
What could that accomplish, except to diminish her originality, her singularity?
Less vivid, less distinctive, less there.
You cant prove it, but you know it when you see it.
The good newsand the great mysteryis that Zellweger did return to looking like who she is.
In her 2020 Oscar-winning role inJudy, her face was hers, both singular and an emotive marvel.
(Difficult, but not impossible.)
Or she may have never had work done at all, well never know.
Personally, I dont care.
Would that a happier, healthier lifestyle were the reason behind all of Hollywoods remodeled faces.
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