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The stars of the film Speed Racer were out for the premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in NY on Saturday night. Christina Ricci looked incredible in a one-shoulder black dress. I like the way she’s grown out her helmet hair or has added extensions, it’s hard to tell, and is now wearing it in loose waves. She did a silly pose and showed off her line-drawn lion tattoo on her shoulder. When you’re a celebrity it seems like you should be more judicious about getting tattoos since you rely on your body for work, but they’re so easily covered up it doesn’t matter. Tattoos are for you not other people.
Ricci explained that the lion is Aslan from “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” and explained that “It’s a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.”
Ricci has plenty of other tattoos, including a bird on her left breast, praying hands on her lower stomach, the words “Move or Bleed” in script on her ribs, the name “Jack” on her thigh for her dead dog, and I could go on. I had a friend in college who loved tattoos and would get one whenever she had a momentous event or a hard time in her life, and it sounds like Ricci does that too.
Ricci’s costar Susan Saradon owes up to a couple of tattoos, including having her children’s initials on her back. She says that it hurt like a bitch, basically:
“I got my kids’ initials tattooed on my back,” Susan Sarandon, the 61-year-old Hollywood actress, disclosed at the premiere of Speed Racer, at the Empire, Leicester Square.
“It really hurt. It hurt so much more than I thought it would.”
“I got another tattoo on my wrist afterwards,” added the Oscar-winning star of Dead Man Walking.
“But I’m going to save the next one until I’m 70 or 80.”
[From Telegraph.co.uk]
And as for other needles, 61 year-old Sarandon says she’s not getting Botox either, and not just because it pricks. She says it makes you look like you’re wearing a mask and that she wants to get parts for her age group:
You can see I haven’t had Botox [or] these things would be gone,” she said, pointing to her frown lines. “I can’t afford to have my face not moving…”
In a few years, “I’ll have an advantage of being the only one who looks 60,” she said with a laugh. “Everyone else looks so much younger. [I'll] probably get all those parts!”
[From People.com]
Sarandon doesn’t take hormone replacement therapy and relies on antioxidants, dermabrasion and exercise like Pilates to help maintain her beauty. She really is an example of how to age gracefully in Hollywood.
Sarandon has two three children, Eva Amurri, 23, with her ex, Italian director Franco Amurri, and Miles, 16, and Jack, 19, with longterm love Tim Robbins. She had Miles when she was 45 and he might help keep her young too. Or at least on her toes.
Speed Racer is in theaters in the US on May 9th, and is out around the world in most countries around that time or in early June. It’s getting mixed reviews and is said to be campy and visually appealing with a less than satisfying plot.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Aging, Christina Ricci, Movies, Photos, Premieres, Susan Sarandon
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16 Responses to “Susan Sarandon says she’s afraid of Botox and that tattoos hurt”
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don’t forget Susan Sarandon also has a daughter, the lovely Eva Amurri, who must be close to 25 at this point.
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Thanks Jessiee. Eva Amurri is 23 according to Wikipedia. I will add it!
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susan looks amazing and natural. i can’t understand why so many actresses fuck their faces up with trout pout lips, botox, eyebrow lifts, etc. like poor nicole kidman - her face looks like it’s made of wax these days.
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I love how she looks, so much better than the Nicoles and Demis with all their reconstruction.
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Sarandon may not use Botox but I believe she’s had plastic surgery.
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I also think she’s had surgery. Saw an interview with her and Goldie Hawn about a year ago, and both looked like they’d had recent work done - kind of stretched and shiny looking - although Goldie much more than Sarandon. But she’s not taken it to any great excess, her face is still beautiful and full of character. I doubt she ever will, she’s too grounded and normal.
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Personally, I can’t get over the whole idea of what Botox actually is.
Mama always said not to eat food out of dented cans and now you want me to stick what I was told not to consume in my face??
Hell no!!
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I don’t have anything against tattoos. I don’t think I’ll ever get one because I just can’t think of anything I would want on me for the rest of my life.
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rlr260, that is exactly why I don’t have any tattoos! I don’t want to make any statement forever. I have enough trouble committing to a t-shirt with words on it, I can’t imagine putting it on my skin permanently.
And besides, I heard they hurt.
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have to agree with you headache. what kind of crazy is it to pump poison into your face?!
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Tattoos don’t hurt that bad! its like a cat scratching a sunburn…
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If tatoos didn’t hurt they’d be called feel-goods…
Anyhoo, her daughter Eva was great in Saved!
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Man Ricci has gotten so cheezy, a tattoo of a lion that symbolizes Aslan and her desire for freedom. What does that mean anyway? Free from anorexia?! Sarandon looks HOT! She seriously looks great for her age. In fact, how did she get such big boobies all of a sudden anyway?
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I just heard that Saradon would skip the country if McCain a republican was elected. I was not too excited about McCain being our republican choice, but now I’m all for it!!!! I would happily give up my sky miles to buy you a ticket to anywhere outside the states. Adios Saradon.
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Susan Sarandon is a liar and a hypocrite! Everyone can easily see that she’s had everything done, facelift and eyelift. Sick and tired of these liars!
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Those are def extentions and Susan Sarandon is faboo. I love that she is comfortable in her skin, in her age, her body and her career.
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