Cosmetic surgeons fight back against the reported “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League” of actresses Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.
Photo: Kate Winslet this year, age 35. (Getty Images photo)
Slide show: British beauties unspoiled by age
ANTI-COSMETIC SURGERY LEAGUE
Plastic surgeons are fighting back against three Oscar-winning British actresses’ appeal to Hollywood stars to stop getting cosmetic surgery.
The effort began earlier this month, when actress Kate Winslet, 35, reportedly said she had joined with Emma Thompson, 52, and Rachel Weisz, 41, to form the informal British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League. [Winslet's publicist denies that she made that statement. But the accompanying quotes reflect the stars' previously published opinions.]
Winslet said she will never get plastic surgery.
“I will never give in. It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty,” she said. “I am an actress. I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.”
Thompson and Weisz have adopted similar positions. “I’m not fiddling about with myself,” Thompson said. “We’re in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.”
Plastic surgery isn’t even effective, Weisz said. “People who look too perfect don’t look sexy or particularly beautiful,” she said.
The story of the new “League” was widely reported, and plastic surgeons promptly counterattacked.
“Well, whoopdie-damn-doo!” said blogger and plastic surgeon Dr. Tony Youn of Michigan. “To me the three actresses’ comments reek of arrogance. Easy to throw stones when you are on top of the mountain!”
“Our society looks to celebrities to look good, to emulate what other people want to look like,” Dr. Stephen Greenberg, director of New York’s Premier Center for Plastic Surgery, told ABC News. “Obviously, plastic surgery is not for these particular celebrities, but they shouldn’t try to tell other people that it’s not the right thing to do for them, whether they are fellow actresses or the person next door.”
The website MyDocHub published these "before and after" photos of Kate Winslet, suggesting that she had gotten a nose job. But is there a change in her face, other than different lighting? (Click photo for slide show.)
The blog at the MyDocHub health site questioned whether Winslet was telling the truth about never having plastic surgery. It published a pair of photos that showed her nose looking different, but probably because of different lighting.
“The jury is out,” it said.
Because of the demands of the movie industry, the “truth is, as soon as these actresses don’t get jobs because they look too old,” they may turn to cosmetic medicine, said Dr. Rhoda Narins, director of the Dermatology Surgery and Laser Center at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Youn agreed. “For Rachel and Kate, let’s see what they do when they age and the roles potentially dry up. Hollywood isn’t kind to most aging actresses without the last name Sarandon or Streep, so I sympathize with those aging actors and actresses who’ve had work done. Many of them are just doing whatever they can to help themselves stay in the spotlight,” he said.
This post was revised on Aug. 29 to add the denial that Kate Winslet said she had formed a “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League.”
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