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“Which indicates he’s on a steroid and probably, maybe, a combination of both.
“And we ought to fess up to it, that carries with it, particularly anabolic steroids, bodybuilders, aggressiveness that comes through.
“I think his personality has changed, but don’t believe he’s mad.
“He’s very clever and able, and somebody who you don’t want as an enemy, and he’s ruthless.”
Rumours of Putin’s alleged use of steroids or plastic surgery have been around for years, and one popular joke in Russia goes: “In response to the charge there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got one.”
In 2019, top UK cosmetic surgeon Gerard Lambe told The Sun Online Putin’s face displayed the signs of cosmetic surgery.
Pictures of a 22-year-old Putin from 1972 show him with much heavier eyelids and fuller lips.
In comparison, more recent images show a much tauter face with thin lips and less visible eyelids.
Look at his face, see how that has changed - he now has an oval face
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“Putin’s facial contouring has clearly changed over the years and while our face shape can become thinner with age - his is noticeably wider and plumper,” he said.
“This would largely be down to cheek fillers. I’d say he’s clearly got a dedicated aesthetic surgeon on his team as these fillers were certainly quite subtle to start.
“In images from about seven years ago he certainly looks much more gaunt and craggy but some work has been done to create a youthful, fuller contour with fillers.”
The Russian leader’s love of macho photo opportunities is notorious, whether it be him topless on a horse, hosting public judo sessions, or hunting with machine guns.
A photo of Putin riding a horse shirtless in Siberia’s Tuva region in 2009 became one of the most infamous images of the “strongman” President but was far from a one-off.
That same year, pictures emerged of him fishing shirtless while on a trip with Prince Albert II of Monaco.
In 2011, he was seen riding a Harley-Davidson trike in full leather while in a motorbike convoy with youth organisation The Night Wolves.
The group is extremely controversial owing to its extremely nationalistic and anti-LGBT views and previously fought as Putin’s paramilitary forces in the Donbas occupation in 2014.
I think he’s just getting old.
Yawn.
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It's more of a mindset than anything else...Vlad doesn't get it
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