Rachel Weisz: Ban Botox!

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.

Oh my God.. What on earth will Jennifer Aniston do? She would be without a job without botox.

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.

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 !

oh please she will eat her own words

@Brain: It’s loony bin … and RW is a twit.

@ # 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.

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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

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.

@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.