Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is no fan of plastic surgery, and now says she’s sad for women in their 20s who get cosmetic enhancements.
Actress Cate Blanchett isn’t just against plastic surgery.
The thought of it scares her, she says, and she has “pity” for young women who have it.
She’s quoted in Fashion etc.:
““There’s been a decade or probably more of people doing interventions on their faces and their bodies, and now people are seeing that [in the] long term, it’s not so great,” she said.
“I’m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do. I just know what works for me. I’d be too frightened about what it means long-term. Looking at women in their 20s doing this stuff, in the end all you see is the work. It doesn’t fill me with admiration; it fills me with pity.”
Some doctors have said Botox can be preventive against forming wrinkles when given to young women. But others have said there is no evidence of that.
It’s not the first time that Blanchett, who has represented the skin care line SK-II for the past decade, has spoken out against cosmetic surgery or procedures. Plastic surgeons have responded by saying, in essence, why don’t you get back to us when you’re older?
Blanchett’s latest proclamations are raising hackles again.
Dr. John Di Saia, a plastic surgeon in San Clemente and Orange, wrote in his blog on Monday:
“Hmm…sounds like a soapbox to me. Pity?
“I don’t mind when some entertainers choose not to have any work (or at least say they are not having any work,) but global statements hinting that they are the high judges of all plastic surgery are a bit much.”
But, he adds:
“At the same time I think I understand her point on the young Botox patients. There is little or no evidence that this is money well spent and I am the first to admit that.”
Blanchett is now 42 years old. For a sense of how well she is aging, you can click on photos of her from the past 5 years.
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Cate Blanchett: I ‘pity’ nip-tucked women is a post from: In Your Face