Posted on 03/13/2008 3:22:37 PM PDT by skyman
With frizzy red hair, milky white skin and a dusting of freckles, Nicole Kidman was never considered a conventional Hollywood beauty.
But she is now. And as well as a smooth golden hairstyle and perfect skin she has a freeze-frame face, free of even the faintest expression lines.
Not that cosmetic surgeons are lining up to take the credit. One claimed her unfortunate "bat face" look was putting other women off cosmetic treatments.
The 40-year-old Academy Award winner is so "over-Botoxed" she is giving the industry a bad name, Dr Martin Braun told a conference of medical experts.
Miss Kidman has always denied using Botox injections. "I am completely natural," she said in a recent magazine interview. "I have nothing in my face or anything."
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But Dr Braun, who runs the biggest Botox clinic in Canada, was convinced Miss Kidman had been an "enthusiastic user".
Botox paralyses facial muscles for between four and six months, softening the appearance of any wrinkles.
"Nicole seems to get her Botox done two or three weeks before a big event, so when she for instance, goes up on stage to collect her Academy Award she looks frozen and strange," Dr Braun told a cosmetic medicine conference in Queensland, Australia.
"She looks like a bat with too much of an (outer) brow lift. The middle of the brow's been dropped. She's crying when she accepts her Oscar, but nothing is moving."
Dr Braun claimed users should be injected two to three months before a big event to allow the effect of the drug to wear off. Actors in particular should use a minimal amount of the product.
He effectively blamed Miss Kidman and other stars for undermining his business.
"That's really doing nothing to help our job because we've got women coming to us saying: 'That's what we don't want to look like'," he said.
After the conference Dr Gabrielle Caswell, from the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia, said she believed Miss Kidman had stopped using Botox in pregnancy. She is expecting a baby in the summer.
"She was using a little too much, especially in the forehead," said Dr Caswell. "Obviously she's not at the moment because she's pregnant; the photos show a lot more expression."
Last night, a spokesman for Miss Kidman said she had no comment.
Hollywood gossip websites have speculated that celebrities such as Celine Dion, Madonna, Cher and Sylvester Stallone have been injected with botox but only a few admit it - including veteran comedienne Joan Rivers.
Sir Cliff Richard has also admitting trying it, but giving it up after his eyebrows "seemed to drop and I didn't like the look of it."
Yup!
(And that bat is cute. A lot of people would probably pay to have one as a pet).
Pelosi has Ed Zachary’s disease.
Ed Zachary’s disease began in North Korea. Here’s the back story:
Kim Jong Il was ronery. He was so ronery because he could not get date.
He goes to Chinese doctor to find out why. The doctor tells him to take off all his clothes and get down on the floor. Kim does so.
The doctor tells him “Crawl across the room.” Kim crawls across the room. The doctor tells him “Now turn around and crawl back.” Kim turns and crawls back.
The doctor pauses, thinks for a moment and says “Glorious leader, you have a very grave condition. I’m afraid you have Ed Zachary’s disease.”
Kim says “What is Ed Zachary’s disease?”
The doctor says “That when your face rook Ed Zachary like your @$$.”
(Some FReeper posted that some time ago, I think.)
“Says Repo (who will be 40 this year!)”
hey me too...this month!
I personally think the Olay creams are fantastic.
” I saw a pic of her when she was 15, and dem lips be real!”
Little Shiloh got mommy’s lips paired with daddy’s face.
Either the lips are real, or they have started injecting Shiloh with the stuff too.
The only thing I'm actually considering is getting some photo-resurfacing to get rid of my sun damage.
Unfortunately, I'm one of the few Germanic broads who tan really easily -- and I grew up in a beach town. So my years of sunworshiping are coming back to bite me. Only two wrinkles, but so many sun spots and freckles I look like a dalmatian. Eck!
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