In an industry where being young is paramount, it makes perfect sense why so many celebrities turn to surgeries and other cosmetic procedures to look young – it could be the difference between a good career and a great one . And between injections, fillers and simple surgeries, there have never been so many ways to erase the signs of aging. Despite this, many stars have decided that they will not participate in the ageism that exists in Hollywood and have been open about their decision to keep it real. Read on for 13 big celebrities who have spoken out against cosmetic surgery, and find out why they swear they’ll never go under the knife.
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Emma Thompson, now 63, described herself in a 2022 interview with The Wrap as an “outspoken, militant feminist about women’s bodies” who doesn’t understand why anyone would want to change their looks with cosmetic surgery.
“I really think cutting yourself off to put it somewhere else is a form of collective psychosis to not appear to be doing what you’re actually doing, which is aging, which is completely natural is,” said the Oscar winner. winner said. “I really think it’s a very strange thing.”
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After 21 Oscar nominations (and three wins) and starring in hit movies like Mamma Mia! and The Devil Wears Prada, that’s for sure Meryl StreepThe 72-year-old has become a Hollywood legend without fundamentally changing her looks. And according to what she told Good Housekeeping in 2008, it’s because she sees aging as a gift.
“I just do not understand. You have to accept aging,” Streep said. “Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize that every day is a gift.”
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Fans watched Drew Barrymore from the precocious child star who appeared on ET to the 47-year-old mother and talk show host she is today. And in all those years, cosmetic surgery was never something she had even considered.
“I’ve never done anything to my face, and I’d love to try not to,” the actor, who often goes makeup-free on Instagram, said during a 2021 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. She added, “I think because I’m so rebellious I’ve seen all this pressure and I’ve seen all these women who’ve been torturing themselves to look a certain way and I was like, ‘You miserable ones People.’ I just never wanted to be afraid of what life would do to me.”
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Even though Salma Hayek has grappled with rumors of cosmetic surgery and once considered getting fillers, she told InStyle that she pulled out at the last minute because of her fear of needles. And in a March 2019 interview with Town & Country, the now 55-year-old actress confirmed she has “done nothing” to surgically alter her appearance.
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While standards may differ, it’s not just women who are grappling with the pressure to look young in Hollywood. Yellowstone Star Kevin Costner67, has resisted falling into that trap, telling USA Today (via the Irish Examiner) in 2003 that he never wanted to go under the knife.
“In this life you never say never, but I’ve never felt the need for plastic surgery,” he said at the time. “People have certain feelings and mine don’t match the way I look. I have my own demons, but they’re not.”
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While Hall Berry, 55, admitted to Yahoo! Beauty in 2015 that the thought of a cosmetic procedure “crossed [her] Spirit”, she prefers to embrace the idea that “aging is natural”.
“I just always want to look like myself, even if it’s an older version of me,” she said. “I think if you do too much of this cosmetic stuff, in a way you become someone else.”
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Kristen Stewart is only 32, but is already aware of the pressures of reaching a certain age in the industry. Back in 2015, she vowed she would “never” have plastic surgery, which she equated to “vandalism.”
“I’m so freaked out by the idea of doing anything. And maybe that’s completely arrogant, but I don’t want to change anything about myself,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “I think the women who do that go insane. It’s vandalism.”
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Jodie Fosterwho will turn 60 later this year is another celebrity fans are seeing growing up on screen, and it sounds like she has no plans to turn back time with the help of a plastic surgeon — although she has made it clear that she doesn’t condemn anyone who does.
“I don’t mind for other people. Whatever they want to do, I’m fine with it. For me, it’s really a matter of self-image,” she said of People in 2007. “I’d rather have someone say, ‘Wow, that girl has a bad nose’ than, ‘Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.’ I would rather comment on who I am than on something that identifies me as ashamed of who I am.”
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in 2011, Kate WinsletShe, now 46, told The Telegraph that she would not succumb to the pressure of having cosmetic procedures.
“It goes against my morals, the way my parents raised me and what I consider natural beauty,” she told the outlet. “I will never give up. I’m an actress, I don’t want to freeze my facial expression.”
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When she was still in her 40s, she is now 54 years old Julia Roberts Elle said she wasn’t interested in cosmetic procedures because she wanted her kids to be able to see the expression on her face.
“It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’re going to look like when they get older,” she told the magazine in 2010. “I want one have an idea of what I will look like before I start cleaning the slates. I want my kids to know when I’m angry, happy, and confused. Your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your trip to the doctor.”
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Jack Nicholsonnow 85, told the Daily Mail in 2011 that he found the results of some procedures performed by his celebrity colleagues “terrible”.
“I haven’t had an operation. I don’t want to be judgmental, but some of the things you see in Hollywood these days are a little bit scary,” he explained. “I mean, I don’t know what’s going on here, but I don’t want to scare people.”
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Julianne Moore, now 61, told Allure in 2010 that she just doesn’t like the way procedures like Botox make people look.
“I hate judging people for it, but I don’t think it makes people look better. I think it just makes her look like they did something to her face,” said the Still Alice star. “When you look at someone whose face has been altered in any way, it just looks weird.”
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in 2012, Diana KeatonNow 76, she told People that she embraces all of the aesthetic aspects of aging — from the color of her hair to the way she dresses — rather than trying to cover it up with surgery.
“My feeling is that everyone has their hands and their hands are always on their face, so it’s a little weird when their hands don’t match their face,” she said. “My hands are the hands of the age I am. They’ve been through a lot and they look the part!”
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