OlderThu, 09 July 2009 at 12:01 am
Rachel Weisz: Ban Botox!
Rachel Weisz doesn’t dig the frozen faces of Hollywood, she tells the August 2009 issue of UK’s Harper’s Bazaar (via Fox News).
“It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen,” the 39-year-old British actress says of Botox. “Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?”
As for fashion, Rachel says, “I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.”
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thou doth protest too much…
Oh, my Lord!!!! What has happened to her? She looks deformed Her face and arms ? It is just skin hanging from a skeleton. reminds me of my Halloween decoration that I hang on my door to scare the children. She was so beautiful in ” The Mummy “, and much healthier looking.
Please, honey, EAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will blow away.
Pffft. She’ll be using it or something like it in 10 years. Trust.
Rachel is one gorgeous woman!
It’s easy to make comments such as these when you are still young. What happens when you start to age and your face changes? Never say never…
what an awful picture.
Not everyone in America have the blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing. Maybe Rachel thinks America is NY(Manhattan) or LA. Their is more to America than what you appear to have seen.
Halli @ 07/09/2009 at 12:10 am Pffft. She’ll be using it or something like it in 10 years. Trust.
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He-l-l-o-o-o!
You stole my comment. Ten years–max.
Americans=Obsessed with image=Fake
love her!!!!
she’s beautiful. i love those boots…
” blow-dry and immaculate grooming thing”
Rachel, Rachel, Americans like to look clean. We like to smell clean.
Americans find it insulting when someone does not take the time necessary to keep themselves looking clean. To us it shows a lack of respect for yourself and thus a signal that you lack motivation to achieve anything positive. That’s how our culture views personal grooming and cleanliness.
We prefer to open our mouths and not have our teeth look like we were still living in medieval times. We like non-greasy, non-smelly hair and we detest, I mean we really really DETEST body odor.
It’s just the American in us Rachel.
Americans are into looking clean or as you call it “immaculate”. Thank goodness you don’t get to choose how you look in these photo shoots, we Americans are very grateful for that.
classy<3
Has Rachel always been that small in the waist or is this some serious photoshop? She looks extremely small in the waist/hip area. Doesn’t look real.
Please, she’s using it now. White skin gets lines at around 25.
@anony:
Agreed!
Rachel is right about botox, look no further than Nicole Kidman who looks awful.
I love her but stfu. A little botox keeps you looking gorgeous and there are only a few actresses I’ve seen on-screen that cant move their face.
In an industry where looks are everything she’s gonna need botox to stay relevant.
@voe:
No, you can see the lines in Rachel’s face. So she’s not using Botox at all.
Anyway, She’s one beautiful woman.
i agree with Rachel Wiesz, shes very smart
@Jane:
Why should she, she’s right. Botox ends up hurting you in the long run in this business and i have seen more actors and actresses who hurt their careers by using it than not.
@Tyler: Like who? The most famous actors use a little botox here and there but can still move their face to give expression.
Rachel is young and she not being using botox yet anyway, but in a few years shes gonna need it.
I agree with Rachel as well,:) more power to her. she’s 100% right and i respect her for that.
Not everyone is as beautiful as she is, so some need that little extra help..lol
@Jane:
There are more people who abuse botox than used it responsibility and you can see the damage to their faces. Like it or not, Rachel is right.
Rachel does make a very good point, i would want to watch an actor who can give a wide range of emotion than an actor who can’t even open their eyes.
Americans haven’t looked clean since the 1950’s
i’m digging the make-up…it goes with her coloring..oh i just love the make-up!!
@Cindy: Nobody is giving me names here. There are thousanda of actors and most of them do not abuse it, simply as that.
Rachel comparing steroids to botox is wrong. Athletes compete and steroids does a number of things to the body.. but botox if used properly can keep you looking attractive and thats whats important with females in that industry.
I respect Rachel Weisz much more now than i ever did before for saying it as it is. My sister went for botox injections in the lips and her lips swelled to the point of them almost bursting. Its not a question of beauty, its a question of self esteem and people who take botox run a heavy risk of infection and permanent damage to the tissue where it’s being injected into.
Its about time people spoke out on what is really going on.
@Jane:
Off the top of my head:
Priscilla Presley
Meg ryan
Nicolle Kidman
The Socialite who wanted to be a cat ( Don’t asked)
There are just a few examples of Botox gone wrong.
Actually comparing steroids to Botox is kind of right. Both of them are enhancing a certain part of the body and both of them have very bad side affects if abused.
Rachel is right in saying that and they should be some form of limit of how much you can use.
@Kevin: I agree with your list.. minus Meg..but they aren’t the most demanded actors by far. And only a small percentage in total.
My point was dont knock it till you try it.. or need it anyway. She will in the coming years if she wants to stay relevant and a little botox doesn’t hurt. Thats all :)
She’s right. heaven forbid someone age nowadays.
@voe:
Really? I’m 26 and with white skin. I have no lines on my face.
@Jane:
Sorry but you don’t need botox to stay relevant. Botox is just a drug, not a necessity and those who have self-esteem would not need to put that in their bodies to feel that they are relevant.
And i would definitely put Meg Ryan on that list of botox mishaps and add Lisa Rinna to it as well.
@Megan: In hollywood? of course you do. All the most demanded actors have gotten a lil somethin somethin done. There are very few with amazing genes.
@Stephanie: How is it a fair comparison? When using botox you’re doing it to yourself. Like steroids yeah, but steroids is used to cheat. You dont deserve to win if you use steroids.
Minimal botox can get rid of your wrinkles.. i dont see the HUGE fuss unless you look like Joan rivers
I would want to have a woman like Rachel, who has a bit of character in her face than a woman who can’t even smile because her face is too tight.
I agree with Rachel.
I have a actor friend who injected some Botox in his face, not a pretty sight and he does look very odd. What Rachel said was correct, they should be some kind of regulation on this procedure.
Wait until you hit the later ages and you will be getting lots of botox girlfriend.
Hmmmm…..there are some real Botox lovers on this post. Defending their “miracle” drug like nothing else. How lovely.
@kookiekandy:
With how beautiful she is now, i doubt she would need it. plus i think she’s absolutely right in her opinion about botox. People do need to know more about it before they ruined their face with it.
@pixy: Yeah because a young woman like me would need botox. Don’t make assumptions about people you have never seen before.
I agree with everything Rachel said. Nothing worst that to see an actor who has Botox his or her face to the point of them looking robotic. It takes you away from the film you are watching and its sad to see.
I agree with everything Rachel said. There is nothing worst than to see an actor who has Botox his or her face to the point of them looking robotic. It takes you away from the film you are watching and its very sad to see.
who needs Botox when you have photoshop
Love Rachel, she is so naturally beautiful.
She looks exactly like Keira Knightly
lol she is full of ****. She is totally a botox user and has been using it for years. She had far more lines back in her Mummy days than she has now - ten years later. Or maybe she really doesnt use botox and had a full face lift already but she has definitely had work.
@kiska:
Met Rachel recently and no, she did not have any work done. You’re full of ****.
P.S. She right in her opinion, i work as a production assistant and you can automatically tell if someone had any Botox injections in their face, it looks unnatural. and they do lose some facial features because of it.
I admired Rachel for calling this out. It needs to be address more often, especially the damage it does to you body.
i like rachel and i agree 100% with what she said. they are trying to take the imperfections out of art, and that is where the greatest art is found in the humaine and withing faults…but you would think artisans like directors, writers, actors, make up artists, costume makers, set makers, etc…would understand all that sh*t but i guess this is just another byproduct of the typical hollywood machine. this is why post porduction, image correction and all that stuff is so popular. things always need to be just right. anyways i like rachel, and i’m probably not going to read the entire interview, but she doesn’t disappoint. the cover looks super photoshopped. i think one thing someone said about brooke shield at the mj memorial was that they are very glad that her face moves and that she has wrinkels. i mean i may not be one to judge, although i do judge, but i just think people need to embrace their flaws. i am not one to talk though since it’s a hard thing to do (easy when you’ve done it) but it’s definately not for the weak minded/spirited. the best people are the ones who look like they have character and not the plastic looking ones. definately. plastic is not real nor is it true…it’s an artiface.
I had some Botox injected in my face to get rid of some lines that i did not like and it was one of the biggest mistakes that i ever made. It was painful and i did have to got to the doctor after a few days because my face puffed up. I say more power to Rachel for saying the truth about this and i hope there is some action to control this.
I still like her after these comments from her . . . but still she has a negative perception of women in America. Obviously, she must have met only a few . . . I don’t know where she gets that perception . . .
Botox and steroids are not totally the same thing . . .
but botox if used properly can keep you looking attractive and thats whats important with females in that industry.
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there’s something so wrong in this comment made by another person that i’m just sad as i type this. emphasis on the important part right and the attractiveness factors. cause that’s all we want our females to be. botox and silicone, and all these inctables and all that ****. tits ass nice nose nice eyes no wrinkles nice chin etc…gosh. i can’t believe money is spent on image and that image is so important/actual holds ground in this world when there are far more important things. it’s actually very sad/depressing. i’m off to get injected and have an augmentation or whatever **** people do. technology/science is great…but sometimes it’s just too much. pushing boundaries is good and all but where are the parameters, where’s the counter-balance, when do we stop.
@eliza:
I don’t think Rachel has a negative perception of women in America at all, she talking more about style than people. As for Botox and steroids, they are pretty much in the same league and both of them needs to be baned.
. . . nothing wrong with botox really . . . I didn’t think Rachel has that bad a perception of American women…. heaven knows what else she says about them geeezzz, she should know that genetics is unfair at times. Science is the thing of the future, like or not. Many commenters against botox will be dead in 50 years or so, and science will prevail!
Botox can cause very serious medical complications and i’m surprised that the medical industry is getting away with mutilating people’s faces like that.
Bravo Rachel for bring this to light in a public way.
Why do some people here assume that she’ll automatically use it in 10 years? She’ll maybe chose the same path as her british fellow actresses:Vanessa Redgrave,Helen Mirren,Judi Dench have worked steadily across the years without messing with their faces.
True, they haven’t scored the hot babe eye candy parts in blockbusters or being chosen to be Chanel faces but have at least an interesting career in films and on stage.Maybe Ms Weisz thinks it’s more rewardind this way.
Some US actresses,too, like Susan Sarandon seem to think that relying on your acting capacity is enough.I’ll take her wrinkled face over the frosty mask of a Faye Dunaway anyday.
and as much as i like american fashion…as a student of fashion we know that the style isn’t it, even though it seems like the american designers are they one’s that win all the awards or are the most prominent, but that isn’t the whole truth. that’s he opinion. she can say it and stand by it. i happen to also agree with her on that style aspect. there are more people overseas who have more style and innate fashion know how than you will ever see in new york, california, miami, chicago, or any of the other major markets. really. and also gosh she’s not a twit eliza or whoever keeps making the point about the steriods and the botox being similar in the comparison she is making. usually you would think they have no similarities because they are used for different purposes/but really aren’t they all dealing with correcting imperfections in the end, one in supposed strength and endurance, and one in promoting beauty that is not the original makeup of that person. so they are infact dealing with the same thing about human frailties whether physical, or mental, but definately with perception which is another common, and i don’t even think that’s her main point. he main point is that it has become a default aspect that people go for just like steroids has become the default aspect of sports. it’s the whatever can get me going/made syndrome…me me me all the time me thing. oh well. i know i’m long and drawn out but that’s what she’s talking about. so please actually look at what she’s saying instead of just living and being complacent with the surface meaning. you and are not incorrect but she can make that comparison. you just need to analyze it more and see why it makes sense.
1) Anybody who thinks that Rachel was putting down american women is an idiot. She’s talking about certain styles fashions and comparing them to the UK.
2) Botox should be banned, it really helps no one and it does more harm than good in the long run.
@Jane shut up, i never implied you. How narcissistic of you to think that I was even talking directly to you. I was making a general statement.
he=her and i meant you and her are not incorrect eliza.
@tgk:
People who are saying that Rachel will be using Botox in ten years are only trying to defend the drug and making every excuse known to man to justify it.
@min:
yeah i can’t wait to become a robot, or a clone, or whatever science and technology can make me become. i always loved enhanced humans in comic books and in the tv world. infact scratch that…it would be better if we were all recreated and were not human. i am as much a fan of sci and tech as i am of reality, and as much as i hate being a regular human like my fellow people…i am happy being human. i like it. i like being alive. i like my imperfections even if it’s a constant emotional and mental battle. gosh. we are not all the same and we cannot be made into sameness. there is some of this stuff that just isn’t right…but to each their own. i mean we can still do the whole my a$$ is bigger than yours argument but i can always chime in and say hey i had some lipo or whatever fat injected into my cheeks. lol. life’s grand.
I will never inject botox in my face and i respect Rachel for having enough sense to do the same.
It’s a very surprising photo shoot of Rachel. She usually is so natural and discret and now she looks so sexy and fatal. Well, I think she is pretty in both ways. She has a different kind of beauty, very unique, and is so talented, a special and sensible actress. Thank you by the great pics, Jared.
Jane @ 07/09/2009 at 2:13 am @Stephanie: How is it a fair comparison? When using botox you’re doing it to yourself. Like steroids yeah, but steroids is used to cheat. You dont deserve to win if you use steroids
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of course it is a fair comparison. lol. both of them apply to the use on oneself and also that change also affects the surrounding especially if you are talking about how steroids affects the user and those around the user…the same reasoning can be used for botox. they are actually not that indifferent. botox and steroids are all both forms of cheating. you cheat at life. you cheat yourself. you cheat your surroundings, physical or other. looking pretty and havingn all these procedures is considered winning in the image realm, is it not, and doesn’t that relate to your reference of steroids being used to cheat or not deserving a win in the sports realm. i think you would be more correct if you said instead that YOU DON’T DESERVE TO WIN IF YOU USE BOTOX OR STEROIDS OR BOTH. same sh*t different name.
@Sally:
“Botox can cause very serious medical complications and i’m surprised that the medical industry is getting away with mutilating people’s faces like that.
Bravo Rachel for bring this to light in a public way.”
Hi, we have the same and I think the same opinion about what you said above too. I mean, I’m not completly against botox or any beauty treatment, but I think there is an abusive use of that and this is so negative in so many ways. It’s good to see someone like Rachel saying that.
I intent to say: the same nicknames. ;)
Hahaha——–she is right after all…….american girls pretty much all look the same.
haha so true what rachel said. i look over here on the tele you can tell (if the sound is off) just by appearance whether a girl is amercian or otherwize. those girls do have blown dried hair and bleached teeth, fake tan and what not. and they look like clones of eachother.
it’s not about looking clean, cuz you have more chemical sh*t on your faces then here. (thank goodness) rachel is talking about having a natural sense of style and creativty. indeed take a look on london or hong kong, tokyo streets. scales will fall of your eyes
cool if you get Photoshopped for few hours before your images hit the magazine - who needs Botox. The amount of money she spends on facials is still going to be more than what I earn. She is still one of my favourites, though. One day - she will go all natural like Bridget Bardot and nobody will want to talk to her :)
haahaha. i don’t care if she becomes one of those who keeps being herself without changing her features. she’ll still be good though even if some people think she’ll be ugly. i really like natural wrinkels…but that’s just me.
She’s just another ignorant actress who thinks she has her finger on the pulse of America because she’s been to New York and LA.
@shane:
That’s strange, because Rachel never said she had the pulse on anything other than her opinion on fashion and her views on Botox, which is 100% correct. Its an addictive operation that a good majority of people abuse to the hill and its quite dangerous to their health and well being.
And you have the nerve to call her ignorant?
@anony:
…ahhh shut up….rachel is correct
I agree with many of the comments.. too many woman and men are using it. .And we really don’t know the long term affects. Older people who think they are getting away with something I guess don’t realized how obvious it is that they are doing something.. NO one is really fooled unless they want to be..
My grip with her and others is just that the trend seems to be WHENEVER you have a movie or something to promote they all seem to make these BIG STATEMENTS and STANCE about something.. I remember Kate Winslet when the Oscar push was on.. She talked about other celebs.. bragged that she did not have a nanny that she is the only one to raise her kids and so on.. then the truth came out that she did have help (nanny).. I mean really who believed that her young kids watching themselves when she and her husband are working or doing interviews. This is the same with Megan Fox. ALL those crazy things she has been saying.. YEP she got lots of coverage too.. NO I am not comparing talent.. just the way they all seem to run off at the mouth in interviews when they are promoting something. Rachel is a good actress.. But I doubt she would have gotten this much media coverage it she had not said this about botox..
It would be interesting to see how this cover/interveiw would have played if she had not said anything about botox.. MY guess not many people in this country would have cared. Most don’t really know much about her short of The Mummy, and most are not really interested in her life.. so YEAH saying something a bit controversial is a way to get you in the lamelight..
See it is working with Rachel.. Megan and so many others..
She’s pushing 40 in a big way and we all know what happens to most actresses when they reach 40 & beyond…unemployed. She’s trying too hard to stay relevant. It’s embarassing.
i like her. she’s a good actress. And she is looking more beautiful as she ages. I like her thinner look, i don’t think she’s too thin. I find she lost her baby fats..lol..at a older age…
Stay Young, it’s not only the stars … who are desperate for it… it’s normal ppl too.
I recommend, using nature ways instead of chemicals.
Eat healthy, exercise andrink water … takes your supplements…
it helps in a long run … stay out of the sun (a little sun is good) …
put on suncream ….
take collagen! if you have money to buy it …
i trust the japanese brand most.
You know what else should be banned. Photoshop magic that lets overweight actresses on magazine covers pretend they weigh 100 lbs.
I have to say she was really beautiful in that first Mummy movie.. I know she was younger.. But her face is just too thin for me.. she would look more sexy with a fuller face..
The make up is just too harsh.. I don’t know why they always do these harsh looks.. Cameron D. cover is the same.. just too hard and too many sharp angles. NOT sexy at all… A softer face in that outfit would have been more sexy to me.
I can see why Rachel doesn’t like grooming. I bet it takes her forever to get rid of her hairy unibrow.
KIDMAN DOESN’T USE BOTOX!!!!!! STOP BLAMING HER!!!!!
WATCH HER LATEST PICS INSTEAD TALKING WITHOUT KNOWING!
IT’S TOO EASY BLAME SOME ONE AND BEING BLIND AT THE SAME TINME, ISN’T IT?!?
STOP TO BE BLIND AND RESPECT A GREAT ACTRESS LIKE NICOLE WHO HAS NEVER SAID NOTHING OF BAD TO ANYONE!
THE TRUTH IS RACHEL WILL NEVER HAVE YHE HALF OF THE TALENT NICOLE KIDMAN HAS, EVEN WITH BOTOX KIDMAN IS ABLE TO EXPRESS MORE EMOTIONS OF WHAT RACHEL WILL BE ABLE TO DO IN ALL HER CAREER!!
WHT BRITISH ACTRESSES ARE SO VICIOUS??!! KATE WINSLET, SAMANTHA MORTON AND NOW RACHAEL WEISZ!!!???
@Karen:
“MY guess not many people in this country would have cared. ”
You’re absolutely right.
Since she was giving an interview with a magazine of HER country, she was probably caring more about the brit audience here.
Maybe the public in her native country knows a little bit more about her than The mummy or cares about her. Well, if it’s not the case, you can bet she won’t be on a cover of UK fasion magazine for a while.Selling figures will tell that.
She is so stunning.
“blow dry and immaculate grooming thing”, what part of America is she talking about, I’d love to see that lol.. She is generalizing too much and might be guided too much by what she sees in tv or what she has seen in NY and LA, which is really different to the rest of the country.. Not that I see a problem with with the “blow dry and immaculate grooming thing”, if a person wants to look good that’s their problem, whatever floats your boat.. I like her, but this comment, not so much….
@ anony
I agree 100%
I agree with you Shane! She’s very ignorant.
lol at delusional poster #12…Americans are so clean that they allow their dogs to lick their faces, knowing that tongue’s been licking dog’s ass. Oh wow you are so self respectful and oh so clean. Disgusting and fake is what you are!
Rachel says, “I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.”
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Apparently, Ms. Weisz not only wants to ban botox, but she also seems to have an aversion to standard English. “Different TO???” How can anything be “different TO” something else? It is different “FROM,” as every eight-year-old AMERICAN child knows. Not only do Americans embrace good grooming and hygiene, but we also know basic grammar.
@Karen:
You have to blame the press for blowing things out of proportion, not the actors and Rachel is right about the Botox thing.
@Excuse me?:
If you read what she said other than be one the the sad few who is taking what she said as an insult, she’s talking about fashion, not people.
I agree with her botox comment, but I hate it when people group a group of people as one thing. Her comment about American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing was over the top. Its like saying whites act this way and blacks act that way. Rachel, you have lost a fan.
@lala:
If you knew how to read other than give us americans a bad name by showing how ignorant you are, you would have seen that Rachel is not talking about people in general, she’s talking about certain types of style.
Grow up, really.
I don’t know what is worse, the Botox injections which will ruin your face with poisons or the small group of morons who get offended over a comment about fashion and then try to say that Rachel’s bashing the US. Are people that stupid? Apparently they are.
Ben @ 07/09/2009 at 10:30 am @Excuse me?:
If you read what she said other than be one the the sad few who is taking what she said as an insult, she’s talking about fashion, not people.
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And I am commenting on her GRAMMAR, or lack thereof. I couldn’t care less what she has to say about Botox, and neither should anyone else. SHE should do what she wants with HER face, and she should allow OTHERS to do what they wish with their own. Who is SHE to dictate how others should use THEIR own bodies when she can’t even formulate a simple sentence? She’s a JOKE — someone to be laughed at!
And if she has such a low opinion of Americans, perhaps she would like ALL AMERICANS TO STOP SEEING HER FILMS! Let’s see what she would have to say about the physical appearance of those standing next to her on a n UNEMPLOYMENT LINE!
@Harris:
They are that stupid unfortunately and they really don’t know how to read.
@Excuse me?:
The magazine is from the UK and Rachel did not write the article. The person i’m laughing at here is you because of how ill informed you present yourself. You give us all a bad name with your stupidity and your incapability to comprehend what was said.
Come on… anyone with half a brain would know that Rachel was just talking about the differences in fashion between the countries. If anybody got offended over that, then they are way too sensitive for their own good and should not read anything over a fifth grade level.
I have the actual magazine in my hand and Rachel is not saying anything bad about America at all, only comparing the type of style trends that are out there. Whoever is getting up in arms over her comment is just looking for trouble or is in fact pretty stupid.
For for the Botox question, its very dangerous to inject anything in your body for fear of it rejecting it and Botox is a very sensitive chemical that can not only mess up your chemistry but your facial muscles as well. Rachel is right in wanting to ban it, its not a safe thing to do and people go way too far with it, to the point of endangering themselves.
For one, people who are trying to make a big deal over Rachel’s statement regarding the American grooming thing are just trying to get people railed up over nothing. Its very clear that Rachel is only talking about the difference between her native country in regard to fashion sense, not the people themselves. It comes across very clear, so i don’t understand why some people are getting angry over something that was not intent to insult anyone. It probably boils down to a certain sense of ignorance on those people who want to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
@Excuse me?:
I think you’re the joke around here. You know that the article is written by a reporter right? You know that it comes from a different country that has different rules on grammar right? Maybe you should keep your mouth shut before you embarrass yourself even further because you’re only showing how uneducated you are.
This isn’t the first time she bashed Americans!So I wouldn’t say people are overreacting.Hollywood is in its own world.It should be taken out of America and seperated from the rest of the country haha!She shouldn’t be generalizing when it comes to America.I’m sure she hasn’t been to every single state to make a rash comment like that.If she prefers the way women in London dress,that’s fine!She has an opinion and she can express that opinion without being so primitive. How can you compare one city like London to all of America! Sounds a bit too silly!
Who in gods name Is getting offended over this?
“As for fashion, Rachel says, “I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American ‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.”
That’s offensive to you? You think that’s anti American? Some of you guys are MORONS. Really, get a grip and get a life, she said nothing wrong.
@voe: White skin does not get lines at 25! I am 47 and have barely visible wrinkles around the eyes - I get complimented on my skin all the time, and I am as pale as you can get without actually being transparent. It’s all genetics, sun, and some face care.
eddie @ 07/09/2009 at 10:58 am @Excuse me?:
The magazine is from the UK and Rachel did not write the article. The person i’m laughing at here is you because of how ill informed you present yourself. You give us all a bad name with your stupidity and your incapability to comprehend what was said.
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I see logical analysis is not your forte.
What does a UK publication have to do with her inabilty to speak elementary English? When last I checked, ENGLISH was the official language of the UK, Einstein.
As for “stupidity,” it means a LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. My language is flawless and my erudition superb, so what is the basis for your claim? If you mean you DISAGREE with me, then that is something entirely different (I hope I’m not going too fast for you to keep up, Dear).
And how sad that your vocabulary is so limited you must resort to playground-level pejoratives. Perhaps you and Ms. Weisz shared a seat on the “short bus.” Weisz (and YOU) apparently do not know that something cannot be different “TO” something else. What pathetic dolts you both are.
Weisz is an IGNORANT BRIT who cannot speak properly, AND who is so HYPOCRITICAL that she criticizes those who use Botox, yet has no problem having her OWN image distorted via PHOTOSHOPPING.
Sweetie, you and Weisz TOGETHER aren’t bright enough to navigate the intricacies of “up” and “down” elevator buttons.
I think its far more insulting for American for certain people to show how stupid they are in taking an Innocent comment about something trivial and try to make it an anti american rant. That’s more insulting to Americans because it only shows that we are incapable of understanding what we are reading.
@Excuse me?:
You make us all look bad with your stupidity. Shut up.
@Kelly P:
KellyP, I don’t care what you say or what you call me. This is not the first time she has made side remarks about Americans. She will not get another dime from me. End of story.
OK, i fail to see where in her comments that Rachel is being anti American. I only see a comment about her sense of fashion.
Some of you people are nuts.
@lala:
I don’t think Rachel really care about an dumb person who decides not to pay to see her films. And yes, people should call you names, look at the way you are acting.
Is it me or there are way too many stupid people who can’t understand a damn thing they are reading? If anybody got offended over Rachel’s remark OVER FASHION OF ALL THINGS, they are so beyond stupid that its not even funny.
There was nothing in that article that was a slight against Americans. I think a few of you are just out of your minds and need help.
‘blow-dry and immaculate grooming’ thing.” She said. But then that’s all we ever see from her on these magazine covers. So much so that’s it’s hard to recognize her.
Hold on here, is this the Bizzaro world? When did some-one’s opinion on fashion become a attack on American soil? Are some people here that deranged? Sweet Jesus…
As for the botox thing, i agree with Rachel here, its a sad state of affairs that people’s sense of value is that diminish for them to put stuff into their faces to look beautiful.
I think when she meant Americans are obsessed with being immaculate she was referencing the flat ironed blown out hair, full face of makeup, done nails look. I think she meant that Europeans are more natural in their look, which as an American, I prefer.
I think Rachel looks great and yes, a few of you are ignorant and stupid. Anybody reading what she said would get that she just taking about style, not about people.
@Jamie,
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Genetic plays the same role in every race. There are blacks who get lines at young age (Vanessa William is one), and there are Asians who appear older than their age to other Asians. You are the few whites who are blessed with youthful genes if you are 47 and has no lines around your eyes. But most have wrinkles early. Even Asians are getting wrinkles earlier now. I attribute this to the obsession with over-exercising to fit into trendy clothes designed by guys who do not want to be guys but are fascinated by guy’s body shape, and to wearing make-up too early, too much.
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Btw, I am Asian, around your age, and have faint lines at the tails of my eyes, lost plumpness on my lids, face in general, fullness of my lips, etc. I do not buy these actresses who claim to have nothing done to their faces and bodies yet have bigger eyes, higher brows, fuller cheeks, still full or fuller lips, perkier and bigger boobs than when they were in their 20’s. BS! I say.
She wants to start another war with the Americans. Woop woop.
Are a few people here that stupid to think that what Rachel had said was an insult to Americans? Are these people serious and if so, what loony bend did they escape from?
she looks like Keira Knightley on the cover…i mean in the good way!
Rachel rocks. “excuse me’ is an idiot. Smith is right.
Rachel was absolutely right with what she said. Botox does damage the nerve cells in the face and its almost irreversible. I say good for Rachel for saying it as it should be.
As for this nonsense about her comments being Anti American, who the hell are some of theses people kidding? For god sake, Rachel is only talking about certain styles and certain preferences between the US and the UK. How the hell can someone get a anti-american rant out of that?
A few of you are flakes who need lives.
stunning, she has great features and skin. absolutely stunning.
Oh my God.. What on earth will Jennifer Aniston do? She would be without a job without botox.
@Hung-Hio:
Rachel didn’t even mention Kidman, who was called out by the journalist.
Oh and Kidman is doing loads of bad films with terrible performances by her. Weisz is better, and is doing better now than aways. Wait for her upcoming films.
even though i didn’t read the article because i know her not to be a stupid twit, it seems like some people may have clicked the link and read it and still misunderstood her. it’s quite funny actually that people still perfer not to use their brain’s capacity and understand the meaning of her words or what is behind her words. i haven’t heard her say anything about photoshop (which the cover clearly has been) but i’ve heard her talk lots and i know how she feels about image, but although she might be a contradiction or one of the few in hollywood land who actually sticks to her convictions, i won’t try and defend her as she is also a part of the world she proportes to dislike. if she didn’t like the image of hollywood maybe she wouldn’t be an actress, but as we all know even with the whole incident with mj, sometimes your art is greater than the trappings and rachel is not one of those usual hollywood people at all…and like many people have been following her career for a long time. so what if she said those things. those are her opinions, and it’s her right. for you to feel offended because you feel she has slandered y our nation or everything you stand for is obviously crazy as she is speaking from what she knows and her perspective, even if she’s making a generalization (generalizations are dangerous), but she’s not wrong. i mean image is a really big aspect of the american, north american, south american, asian, european, african etc… cultures, and she’s not wrong. i mean you can see probably far more ungroomed british people than americans simply because even though they are also inflicted with the whole image game and needing to look the best all the time, it’s not like how it is stateside. i mean there are people in the north who dress like they live in california or new york or florida or wherever just because the first thing we get is american culture, television, media, everything, shoved down our throats. but i don’t think the american’s were the original creaters of this everyone must look the smae/a certain way image…i think it started with the parisiannes and the italians in art. or maybe it started even before that when man changed from monkey to human. i don’t know…but she’s basically speaking on all the things that inflicts all humans, and she’s not wrong. her language may not be accurate but doesn’t mean her thoughts aren’t.
hmmm I’m not biased cuz I’ m neither American nor English.. shes absolutely right, London girls have muuuuuch more style than Americans. Sorry, but thats the very truth. Just accept it. And she has her right to say so, as you have your right to counter argument. But…. the same is not applied to other parts of England, head to the north and the outfits are totally bitchy or hideous. Well, a great part are.
Just look at Joan Rivers. If she opens her mouth very wide to eat or smile or drink, I swear the corners of her lips bleed, from being overly-strained. Her eyes are on top of her forehead, which is on top of her scalp. She is starting to resemble the ” cat-woman ” lady. When will SHE stop ? It has gotten out of hand with alot of women.
I read online that Ramona Singer of the Real Housewives of New York has had ” way to many, but can’t stop now ” between her eyes and forehead and around her mouth. No wonder she has that wild ” bug-eyed ” look, that her cast hate and complain about. She calls it, ” a dry eye condition “. Bull !
she looks like Keira Knightley not Weisz
oh please she will eat her own words
Love Rachel and i love her comments on Botox, right on.
@Brain: It’s loony bin … and RW is a twit.
another ninny on the hate America bandwagon. We’ll see how her career goes and she’s not exactly aging well. She looks freaky in the magazine.
@ # 92 ” disgusting and fake is what you are”
Honey I don’t have pets. Wouldn’t be caught dead kissing a dog/cat or even picking up their feces. Animals groom themselves by licking/picking themselves or each other. Hopefully there are no humans out there engaging in that behaviour, but , maybe Rachel is, that’s why she’s so against the ” immaculate” looking American.
As for Botox, anyone out there who wants to mess with what God created, go ahead. I guarantee that nothing any human hand creates will ever be as perfect as what God makes; hence the disfiguring results from botox.
If Rachel wanted to be real she should have done this photo shoot sans makeup and photoshop.
She looks botox out and photoshopped out. After her Oscar win she suffers the Oscar curse. Her films dont do well at the box office and she’s doing useless films.
Since when is someone not allowed to interpret the meaning of another person’s comment.
She may have been making an anti-American comment or she may not have been. None of us were in her head or knows her views about America. I did not take her comment as anti-American, I took it as uninformed about American cultural norms. Every country has it’s cultural expectations/norms and interpretation of those expectations and norms.
Human nature is to set up norms within groups and interpret those norms. European countries are no different in their cultural norms. Her comment just shows how unaware she is of cultural differences and her belief that one culture norms makes it better than another culture’s.
If Ms. Wiecz were truly educated she could have stated that she prefers the British standard of grooming to the American standard because she was reared within that culture and is not comfortable applying the American standard of grooming to herself.
To outright suggest that another cultures norms are not worthwhile is to simply inform the reader that you are incapble of understanding the role that culture plays in defining a society.
The broader meaning of her statement-in my opinion, is that she is intolerant of different cultures and assumes her British cultural norms is more sophisticated and thus better than others.
To be truly educated about culture is to know what a specific nation or group of people hold valuable and why they hold it valuable then, still be able to be around it and not find it offensive and then, continue to retain your specific cultural beliefs and not feel threatened.
I doubt she’s had much education about culture. I know I did. I loved Anthropology in High School and I still continue to look at everyday events through the eyes of culture. Culture determines how a group of people will respond to a situation. It’s very important.
The British well know the importance of Cultural Anthropology they used it for centuries to build their empire- know what a group finds valuabe; offensive; upper-class; low-class and you can pick and choose your allies within that society and provide them with what they value, then, you pit them against another section of that same society who you have neglected-India, British-ruled Carribean countries, and a host of African countries were victims of cultural anthropology exploitation.
Ms. Weicz obviously doesn’t know her British history or, is continuing that ingrained British idea that their culural norms are superior to others especially the ‘yanks’ or ‘colonies’ as they like to call Americans.
I thought that was Keira Knightley on the cover for a minute there. She is right about the botox, just watch Australia and Nicole Kidman try to show some emotion, she looks well, plastic, which is too bad because I adore Nicole Kidman. (Hugh, well, Hugh is just perfect :)
@Jane:
Not everybody needs botox to stay relevant in Hollywood. I respect very beautiful, sophisticated and talented actresses, like Rachel, such as Geraldine Chaplin, Vanessa Redgrave, or Judi Dench, who don’t seem to have used botox in their lives and are still working in the roles of old women, but very expressive. Botox stretches your face skin so much you cannot move your face anymore. People who have abused it seem to wear a rigid mask. I think that Rachel means that. I think wrinkles can be beautiful, a sign that you have lived intensively and have accumulated experience and wisdom. You only have to take good care of your skin (moisturizing, not burning it too much under the sun) and you will stay young as much as age allows you. Rachel only needs to eat a little bit more, because I agree she is too skinny, but she has the normal wrinkles of her age, because I remember all of you she is 38 years old, not 28.
@brainless:
You’re a twit and Rachel is right.
@ANONY:
“She may have been making an anti-American comment or she may not have been.”
It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that Rachel was not saying anything Anti American. If you were as educated as you said you were, you would have known that. Your observation proved that your not.
We had to take my mother to the hospital once because she decide to get some Boxtox around her cheeks and she developed a nasty rash afterwards. Rachel makes a very good point and while it should not be banned in my opinion, there should be some oversight. People do take this treatment way too far and they do ruined the features in their face.
As for Rachel’s other comments, if anyone took them as anti-American or uninformed about American cultural norms, then they’re Idiots who make this country look very bad by their lack of reading coprihention.
@Colleen:
Sorry to correct you but i think you meant to say “lack of reading comprehension” not “lack of reading coprihention.” Anyway, i agree with you 100%. There was nothing even remotely anti or uninformed in what Rachel said, just her talking about her fashion preferences. The people who are trying to make something out of this are just plain stupid.
Rachel is so right on with what she said. To those who say that she’s uninformed, shut the F up.
Her waistline looks skinny on the magazine cover because she’s turned a bit. What she says about botox is mostly true in Hollywood. There’s a propensity to use too much of it. I hope she resists the temptation and grow old gracefully like Streep, Close, and Mirren. Their wrinkles and sags add character to their roles and own persona.
She gets parts in Hollywood because she’s a jew. She’s not a good actress nor she is pretty. She tries to be subtle on her hate for America and I thinl she got the fashion in reverse on Americans.America is known to be carefree,simple and laid back while Europeans are try hard immaculate and aristocrats when they’re not. What a snob and ungrateful witch.
@gabby:
Not only are you an anti semite but you’re a moron. Rachel is not only a great actress but she’s right about what Botox does to a person and if you got from her comment about fashion that she hates America, then you’re a bigger moron than i give you credit for.
Rachel is right about the effects of botox, it does take away an actors ability to express their work. As for the whole “anti-American or uninformed about American cultural norms” thing, come on, who in their right mind thinks she really said that? Even a child could see that she talking about fashion. It could be that some people are really that slow and stupid or its a few people trying to cause an uproar over nothing. Either way, its pathetic and its insulting to the Americans who can understand what they are reading.
I totally agree with what Rachel said. A good example is Nicole Kidman, who can’t even close her eyes. Rachel looks natural, like what a real women should look like, not a plastic doll with no emotion.
And yes Hecliff, some people are that slow and stupid and they are the bane of american society. They make this country into the laughing stock of the world with their ignorance and inability to comprehend the world around them much less the stuff they are reading.
Steroids and Botox have nothing in common. Rachel Weisz is right, though. In America, we are obsessed with the way we look. That’s more of a psychological problem. But she goes on to say that the use of Botox injections leave actors less able to convey emotion, and that it harms the acting industry as much as steroids harm athletes.
You’ve got to be kidding.
I think its a fair comparison. Both feed off the insecurities of those who want to accomplish more and they have very bad side effects. Rachel is completely right.
I love her makeup…
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