Nicole Kidman arrived in LA a few days ago, and the way the paparazzi treated her arrival at the airport, you’d think that Nicole was some kind of major contender during the awards season. Oddly enough, there was such a weird chance that she WOULD be an Oscar contender – Nicole scored both Golden Globe and SAG nominations for her peeing-on-Efron role in The Paperboy. Is Nicole Kidman the kind of actress who gets nominated for simply showing up in a film at this point? Is she at that level? You know who is at that level? Meryl Streep. Maybe Dame Judi Dench. But that’s about it. But no matter how many times I cry “WTF?” about Nicole’s nominations, I’m actually happy that Nicole will be present during the awards season. Just because of fashion… and Botox-face.
Speaking of, here’s a little preview of Nicole’s Golden Globe appearance tonight. Last night (Saturday), Nicole was the main A-list guest at the ‘Gold Meets Golden’ event at The Lounge. Nic wore this rather fantastic Oscar de la Renta suit (the shoes are Nicholas Kirkwood) which is occasion-appropriate and lovely. Keith Urban was there too, looking the same as always. I’m not going to harp on and on about it because I know some of you are die-hard Kidman-loonies, but dear God, THE BOTOX. You know she just got re-frozen for the Globes too. Her face looks freshly jacked. Ugh. She doesn’t need to do this.
Guess who else was at the same event? Stacy Keibler! She wore a Prabal Gurung dress which I’m not crazy about, but I think that’s just because Stacy is one of those girls… those girls who make designer clothes look cheap. It’s a gift. Something nice: her hair is improving.
Photos courtesy of Brian To/WENN.com and Fame/Flynet.
I watched the last half of the stepford wives movie and I can see the difference in her face. I like Nicole so I won’t make any comments other than she looks classy.
I can barely look at her face. Her inflated upper lip with the obvious capped teeth and gums. Then the botox. It looks like a gallon of it has been injected in her face along with plenty of filler. She was so pretty back in the day before she started financing her plastic surgeon’s life style.
In contrast, Naomi Watts who is just a year younger looks great untweaked, with some wrinkles and all. Nicole would look amazing if she just left her face alone. A few lines is much better than that frozen look. Who knows maybe Tom Cruise got her into the while tweaking thing. It’s shame, I used to really find her gorgeous.
I agree, Naomi Watts looks 10 years younger and 100 times more natural than NK…
If she was tweaking during her time with Cruise, it was very subtly done. Not this freakish appearance.
She talked about going through a dark period after the divorce. The years she referenced match the start of her freakish appearance.
The only obvious thing she did during the cruise years is bleach her skin to it’s current colour.
if you want to see what nicole would have looked like without all this tweaking, you just have to look at her sister Antonia. If Antonia is also getting work done, it’s very subtle.
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Antonia+Kidman/Antonia+Kidman+in+Sydney/6Zzev5wvlNG
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Antonia+Kidman/InStyle+Audi+Women+Style+Awards/dOq08rI3QWL
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Antonia+Kidman/Pride+Australia+National+Medal+2009/8I8a7Qv1mhb
This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of beauty, youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.
Sigh, well said. Have you ever read Paulina Porizkova’s essay about Aging in Huffpo? She wrote something like “nothing ages as badly as a beautiful woman’s ego”. Losing one’s beauty and youth does suck but what can one do but be gracious about it? Poor Nicole.
@anmelt
But Porizkova was a model whose career depended entirely on her looks. And while looks are obviously important to Nicole too, she is a talented actress – there’s no reason she wouldn’t have continued to get work without pretending to be 29. And she’s only in her mid-40s! There are lots of actresses her age or older who still look fab without having a huge amount (or any?) work done. Someone mentioned Naomi Watts, but there’s also Julianne Moore, Rachel Weisz or Tilda Swinton.
“This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of beauty, youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
AMEN!
I can’t relate. I was always an ugly duckling late bloomer type – a bit of age looks better on me. Eh, you win some you lose some I guess.
Death Becomes Her is such a great movie! Meryl and Goldie are a perfect pair.
I remember that phrase in the movie ‘death becomes her’.
Speaking of Isabella Rossellini…years ago when Nicole and Tom were seated at a table with Isabella, Nicole freaked out because everyone was staring at Rossellini and she was the center of attention.
Paulina is and was a genuine beauty. Kidman never was. Nicole has been tweaking herself to attain another worldly beauty which has been elusive. So she’s been striving not only to appear younger but beautiful. All of her original physical characteristics; long shapeless body, mottled skin, gummy grin and overhanging eyelids are not prized physical traits. I’ll never understand people who find her to be more than merely pretty. Do they not have eyes?
I just hold on to the hope that things won’t turn out as bad as I expect. There are a lot of very beautiful older women who have somehow managed to keep their skin nice and less wrinkly. I’ve avoided the sun like the plague so I hope that helps somewhat.
I’m not opposed to a touch of Botox or filler (but NEVER in the lips – that is always a disaster!), but it has to be done very carefully by someone who is cautious. I’d rather have too little than too much any day.
It’s really sad because she was (maybe still is in certain light?) gorgeous and her smile was pretty too. She should have naturally aged! Instead we get this botoxy mean looking woman.
She has small children too. They must be frightened of her mean looking face.
She’s ugly now. Very offputting.
Her sister Antonia is pretty, very cute and quite natural looking. Not freakish like Nic.
Nicole needs to wear colors…she is so pale that the white washes her out completely…and I do not like her hair like that…it looks like she was having a bad hair day, so decided just to push it back…I won’t even say anything about the botox because NK uses botox so much, I probably wouldn’t recognize her without it…and could someone PLEASE give Keith Urban a make-over…he has looked exactly the same way for 20 years…
Actually… Keith Urban looks to be a fan of the plastic surgeon’s office too!
http://dlisted.com/2012/10/26/birthday-sluts-1?page=1
So do we want to start of list of what exactly he had done?
I don’t think it’s Stacy’s fault. Her dress looks hideous to me.
I love the suit, very sleek and elegant. I feel like we don’t see nearly enough well-cut pant suits these days.
Oh, Nicole . . . put the needle down!! There’s such a thing called ‘growing old gracefully’ and it’s ten times better than jacking your face so much that it becomes a conversation starter.
I didn’t see your reply when I started mine, Amelia. I would have just +1’d you.
Here in the states, I cannot find a tailored suit. Granted I haven’t gone to Rodeo Drive yet, but none of the second tiered stores are carrying them. They are all boxy, business suits or separates.
Decent suits can be a bugger to find, it’s so much easier for men!
I’ve used Austin Reed a couple of times, the fit is a bit of a hit-or-miss though.
There’s always bespoke tailoring done by independent retailers, there are a couple of lovely little ones here in London but they’re *SO* expensive! Until I can afford those, I’ll just be letting out my trouser legs myself ^^
Amelia,
The only high street store that i found hit all my boxes, particularly being gorilla limbed and tall is Jigsaw.
No need for extra tailoring, and the suits are classic shapes. no boxy anything. I have suits from them from a decade ago that still fit AND still look current.
I love Nicole’s suit and vest. Beautiful, tailored – the lines of it look practically drawn. I do agree with MrsBPitt that she should have gone with a color but on its own, I love the cream.
I actually think Nicole has been doing better with her enhancements lately. Her lips look better than they did a few years ago.
I think she’s a lovely lady but she’s always washed out and don’t get me started on that forehead.
I like the suit, not so much the shoes..but to the main point, her face looks really terrible. And why does she put her hair like that.. sigh, she’s a mess..
Ugh, I wish I had that tall and elegant figure to wear a pantsuit like this (with a different shirt). I would Tilda-Swinton the hell out of a figure like that. Curse my generously proportioned arse!
Damn all that tanning. Stacy please stay out of the sun. I know for me being a woman of color I don’t get it. I see my friends with that tanned skin and it looks so ugh. why? and many of my older friends their skin looks so bad after they reach a certain age. It takes a toll.It does. Aren’t there lotions and such to give the skin a sun kissed look and not all orange and baked.
and Nicole looks so strange. I don’t get this thing she is doing with her fashion. I guess she is trying to dress like Grace. Just leave it when you are not working. But her suit is beautiful. I love a tailored suit for women. The only thing I hate when my suits are white or cream are the pocket linings that show through. I always try to finds suits with out front pockets. Why designers can’t fix that is WTH.. come on.
and I like the shoes too. Not commenting on her face. She just looks so different. I was looking at pictures of her when she was with Tom. Things changed right after that split.
Thing is, 10 years from now we’ll still be seeing Nicole & Keith @ these types of affairs looking…..EXACTLY THE SAME!
Keith’s hair will be the same as it is now…Nicole will not have aged one DAY. Thanks alot (not) Botox and flat-irons. These two have become caricatures of themselves. Wax figures frozen in time. I find them very static & uninteresting. It seems they are clueless, or could care less that they look like they belong in the wax museum.
I wish they’d change it up a bit…and for God’s sake Nicole, RELAX…let a wrinkle or two show, because to me, she looks like the walking dead.
Also, it looks like Stacy has been hitting the Botox a bit hard, as well.
I lIke how comfortable they are together. She can wear heels around him unlike Mr. Scientology.
WEAR COLORS, FOR THE LOVE OF POCAHONTAS
While I think Nicole was a hero for getting away from Tom and all of his craziness…
she looks like a 60yr old woman, she also had gorgeous hair, what the heck happened??
nice suit but she needs all the color she can get.
She’s been showcasing that prominent forehead with widow’s peak for a decade now. It’s really not flattering and suggests to me that she has some tiny braids along the scalp to pull her face up.
I like the suit, but she doesn’t have the right coloring for it, I think.
Nicole is living proof that extensive ‘work’ does NOT make a woman look younger. Look at the pictures of her with her husband. He’s only two years younger than her but here he looks like her son rather than her husband. Sad.
Am I the only person who hates this look? The suit is just awkward looking, not graceful or flattering. We get it. Nicole – you’re really thin and haven’t had a sandwich in 20 years. She looks like a used Qtip.
Nah. I too am not into the pant suit, shoes, or hair. She looks like grandma going to lunch with the ladies at the club. I’ll leave the face to you all…
She’s ruined her face. It’s a shame because given her completion and how she avoided the sun, she would’ve aged gracefully. It’s hard to even look at her now.
Her hair is hideous. We are truly in grandma territory. Why doesn’t she get some relaxed modern hair?
I am astonished by everything here, but that hair belongs on my grandma. I could not agree more. She should have something swingy and easy and with a side bang.
Her face. How old is she? She really looks to be in her fifties at least. The makeup, the botox and surgery. Yikes. Disaster.
Growing older doesn’t have to be this horrible, ego and soul crushing thing some of you make it out to be. I’m seeing a few lines and grays, but I don’t mind. I don’t need to judge myself with 18 year old eyes or feel the need to compare myself to twenty year olds. It is going to happen, just do your best to look your best and feel beautiful. It is a hell of a lot more graceful than this. I’m not willing to give up my beauty card because I am aging.
I’m with you. Aging “is” and for every gossip board maven commenting that so and so is not aging well, I predict a day where they look in the mirror and get it. It will happen.
Her forehead botox in ill-administered. It’s pushing down her eyebrow into her eyes. I understand that she stays out of the sun, but this is pasty pale and with the flat red and the depression hair-do makes her look so prissy and brittle.
But the hair? Nothing says you’re out of the game like not updating your hair. You’ve got to keep your hair current. A hairband? She literally looks between beauty appointments at the nursing home beauty parlour.
She’s such a talent…. she needs to change her team for an update.
…but on the plus side, does anyone rememeber how awful Stacy’s hair was when she first came to the RC???
Isn’t that the point? She’s the one who isn’t getting ‘it’ and won’t accept what ‘is’ and that reluctance is what has turned into Frau Stitchface. ‘Aging well’ is part attitude, no? If a person wants to have some cosmetic intervention, by all means, have at it. This level of tinkering, however, just shouts, ‘I WON’T REALITY’ and suddenly she’s looking at different mirrors from the rest of us. And that’s what I think people mean about women not aging well, a kind of ‘didn’t we almost have it all’ wistfulness, because there’s no way in Suffering Psyche that this version of herself looks better than what she could’ve had had she not wasted all of that time, money and worry chasing down last place.
She looks terrible. Someone please explain those shoes to me. Is she wearing purple pantyhose or am I seeing things? The shoes ( and her ‘toxed face) ruin the whole thing.
I think the problem with Nicole is that her eyebrows are drawn on too heavy, and then here eyelashes are so short that it all makes her eyes look very squinty.
I do love her suit though.
She looks old. And it’s not the face per se, she just dresses old. Those light colors wash her out, she needs some color. Nicole, you are, in fact, too old for the elfish look…
Her coloring is so odd to me. I’ve never met someone THAT fair in real life. She’s a beautiful (if frozen) woman, but I always see her and wonder how the hell you manage that kind of coloring. Also, Stacy appears to be wearing a ring on *that* finger – is she getting ready to do or say something that will get her canned?
You bleach your skin and stay out of the sun forever more. That’s what she did to achieve that skin colouring. She used to be covered in freckles. She started bleaching her skin in the later years of her Tom years.
You don’t need to bleach, just stay out of the sun. I’ve got Nicole’s natural colouring, and I look that pale in night-time photos.
In day-shots (or looking in the mirror), I’ve got a bit more colour, but the flash makes very fair skin look even paler … probably extra light reflecting off the pale skin or something. I got a few photos where it’s so bad I look like I’m wearing full goth pancake.
And that’s my face which does get a little sun. I keep my legs covered, and they’re basically that shining blue-white you normally see on fish-bellies. It’s not exactly an attractive look, but it’s better than skin-cancer.
I can’t with Stacy Keibler… she looks like a character from a budget 1990 spin-off of Saved by the Bell. And she does make everything look cheap… EVERYTHING
What is wrong with Nicole’s hair? It looks dry, brittle and half the thickness it used to be. Not just a bad hair-do but like something really bad is happening with her hair.
I’m wondering if she had a mishap with extensions or bye or a role wig or something? I saw her hair and thought, ok, let’s see if her hair is magically way more voluminous and flowy for the awards show – then we’ll know she’s wearing fake hair. I know she’s a natural redhead, but that rose-gold color (which I love) is nobody’s natural color and possibly the hardest to keep right. I suppose it could just be weird styling though. Seems like an extremely high maintenance look – must be a b*tch to keep up that hair color and skin color.
*dye*
Jesus. This is one of Hollywood’s most talented stars, but her looks get in the way of her acting nowadays. Her frozen face and the way her eyebrows have migrated up at the corners, while the other end migrated down in such a way that she always looks like she’s frowning or about to squint at something, sans the normal expressive lines accompanying the action.
It does make it harder to pinpoint the person’s age, but not in the way where you think the person is or looks younger than they really are… instead, I just look at them and lump them in with the “agelessness” of Jocelyn Wildenstein, Joan Rivers, Courtney Cox, etc. Plastic face without old age is still a plastic face.
Contrast this to Naomi Watt’s face, with the lines around her eyes and the expressiveness of her face… Naomi looks real and beautiful. Nicole looks alien and this is distracting in her movies.
….But Joan Rivers owns her plastic surgeries and doesn’t delude herself into thinking it makes her beautiful or marginally younger than she really is.
Joan Rivers is the first to make fun of her own surgeries.
That may be true, but why did she bother in the first place? Just because she can make fun of herself for it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a plastic muppet-face, and hers is the first I think of when it comes to plastic surgery disasters. Cox admits to her cosmetic enhancements too. In the end, I don’t care if they admit it… I just wish they wouldn’t do it. If it’s all done with the goal of preserving beauty and youth (and for all of these people it is), but the outcome is otherwise… why bother? Or at the very least, if they could do it tastefully a la Demi Moore and Sharon Stone, why don’t they? It’s just sad.
Claudia,
Joan started it to look beautiful. She had a serious face for radio. In later years she’s doing it to preserve her youth, but she isn’t preserving her youth in the sense that she wants to be 40yrs younger. As she herself says, she’ll settle for 5yrs younger and an a$$ in her back!!!
You should watch her documentaries. She is very clear sighted and honest about herself. She knows her appeal isn’t aesthetic, neither is she trying to hold back the years like these ladies are doing. And she happily lists all her procedures and what else she is going to do. Her surgeries are part of her comedy routine. No one who looks at Joan Rivers’ surgeries has ever said they looked good, were worth copying etc
These Courtney cox and Nicole are trying to hold onto their 30/20something youth and sex appeal, and won’t acknowledge their work except for botox when we can all see that they have had so much more, and look alien.
And finally that Jocelyn woman is also not a good reference for your general point because she specifically wanted to look like a cat. She’s not trying to look beautiful or younger etc. To you it looks like surgery gone wrong, to her it’s cat mission accomplished.
Oh Nicole! Once upon a time there was a beauty… 🙁
Her eyebrows remind me again(!) of Disney’s Evil Queen. She needs to stop that extensive botox crap and the cheek fillers…
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5700000/Evil-Queen-evil-queen-5779066-336-336.jpg
Nicole Kidman is a very elegant woman no matter what she wears .
Terrible all round.
And Stacy’s nose is so…. sharp looking. She’s had one too many nose jobs by the looks of things.
I see Nicole is wearing the trademark Grace Kelly hairstyle here. We’re never going to put you in the same class as your idol, Nicole. You’re in Sarah Ferguson territory at best.
She may be emulating the style of Grace Kelly, but there is no way in hell Kelly would be wearing this hair, today.
I don’t know if she has a stylist or not, including hair, but in this photo she looks washed out because of the light color of the outfit and her hair looks like she just gave it a brush and put a hair band in to keep it out of her face.
I have seen so many photos of her looking washed out because the color of her outfit is too light and/or her hair is colored too pale for her skin. She looks better with a contrast color, it brings out her how pretty her complexion is and gives her some color.
Stacy looks so budget.
I feel sorry for Nicole. I know she’s between the rock and the hard place. Everyone says let yourself age. What you don’t understand is how unforgiving the camera is. It highlights and deepens any little wrinkle and fold it can find. There is little enough work for the over 40 actress and if the camera can’t make love to your face anymore then it’s really over.
But I thought Nicole had gotten the message. She actually lost roles because her face was so frozen in that singing movie and she eased up for a while. Now it looks like she’s full speed ahead again. It’ clear that she doesn’t care how bad she looks to the naked eye as long as the camera loves her. Maybe it sees something we don’t here.
Poor Nicole. If only she had left her mouth alone. Some women have naturally thin lips and hers looked right on her face. These inflated things just ruined her in my opinion.
I swear, in that third picture it literally looks like smiling causes her massive pain.
Y’know when they make movie tie-in action figures and they try to make them look like the actors, and they always come out sorta kinda maybe vaguely having one or two of the actor’s facial characteristics but mostly just look like a slight caricature of the person’s face stuck onto a generic jointed plastic doll?
And just to add, yes I know that:
(a) It’s hard for actresses over 40 to find roles – but Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore seem to make out just fine without having done THIS to themselves and it’s not like Nicole was wholly reliant on being pretty to get parts, she was and is a good actress – and besides, it’s not like NC needs to work or take substandard roles for the paycheques since she already has more money than God and no doubt mountains of dirt on Tommy and the Scis she could sell if she ever got too broke.
(b) It’s hard for someone beautiful to age, but seriously, she’s 45 – and Paulina Porizkova can bitch up as big a storm as she likes about aging and needing to be airbrushed but she ALSO still looks great un-airbrushed and I bet Kidman would have too.
Oh, also her shoes are hideous.
So ridiculous. Nicole must have a psychological plastic surgery addiction. And she actually looked Good with the “THIN” lips before! Fit her face!
the whole package is a disaster. What about bangs?!? And adding a bit more punch to her red colored hair? It would make SUCH a difference… but the old lady suit is just…bleh. Maybe in person it looks great, but in these photos she literally reminds me of my grandma. Was Moulin Rouge so long ago? She was stunning throughout…I really think if she stayed away from messing with fillers so often that the ‘aging’ process would have been kinder to her. But the hair…man, quick fix that she could manage and yet does nothing. I really just don’t get it…
Nichole needs some colour like her husband.
She is so working the Casper thing.
What do you want me to say? I mean, really, what do you want me to say?