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Quirky British actress Helena Bonham Carter took to Malibu beach this weekend in a red one-piece swimsuit, and naturally the Daily Mail was all over it. Don’t forget, the Daily Mail makes over 75% of their money writing stories about celebrities’ imperfections (okay random stat I just fabricated), which they amp up to ridiculous levels. They did a whole series on the ghastly knees that shocked the word. They’ve covered misshapen ears that were really just normal but look odd in a close-up. As I suppose most ears could, if you stopped to really think about them too much. A teeny tiny bit of cellulite on a twenty-something, and she’s instantly labeled as having the body of a sixty year old. So given all that, naturally they were not too enthused about Helena’s natural, un-Photoshopped body. Can you believe she left the house without wearing her Photoshop?
The costume appeared slightly too small for Helena’s ample curves and it looked as if she needed a bit more support in the bust area. The Room With A View star has been enjoying some time out filming in the forthcoming Harry Potter sequels with her family in Malibu, where she has a home with director partner Tim Burton.
Enjoying the balmy 23 degrees sunshine, Helena frolicked on the beach with her cute 21-month-old daughter Nell. While Helena’s pale skin was exposed to the sun in her revealing swimming costume, the toddler was covered up in a pretty sundress covered in flowers and butterflies.
Later on, the pair were joined by Nell’s father Tim Burton, who has been hard at working editing his Alice in Wonderland movie, which also stars Helena.
Helena is juggling parenthood to daughter Nell and five-year-old Billy Raymond with her busy acting schedule. As well as playing the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, Helena is also reprising her role as the evil Bellatrix L’Estrange in the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
[From the Daily Mail]
I actually think Helena looks fine – quite lovely even. She’s under no obligation to the rest of us in terms of her body. She’s 43, has two children, one of whom is just 21 months old. If I look anything near as good as she does at that age, I will consider it a major, major triumph. We all have our own shape and we all age differently. Just because Person A does it one way doesn’t mean they’re superior to Person B who’s aged a different way. It just is what it is.
The pictures, by the way, are adorable. Helena and Tim look like they’re really having a fabulous time and truly enjoy their kids.
Images thanks to Fame Pictures .
Written by JayBird
Posted in Helena Bonham Carter, Photos
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35 Responses to “Helena Bonham Carter enjoys Malibu Beach in a swimsuit”
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Very well said JayBird. They should leave Helena alone, she’s a good role model for all sorts of reasons.
Also, I find it majorly hilarious and cute that Tim Burton sticks to the wacky-colours-with-skulls-all-over outfit combo even at the beach. I love Tim and Helena together, they are a match made in… well, heaven doesn’t quite seem the right word for them. I think they’d prefer “the Underworld”
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She looks fine! the swimsuit is not the best shape for her, but she looks pretty good. I mean, she doesn’t have michelle pfeiffer’s body, but how many women over 40 do? or honestly women in general? I don’t think she really cares what rag mags think of her anyway.
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“She’s 43…. If I look anything near as good as she does at that age, I will consider it a major, major triumph.”
She’s 43, what’s with the “at that age”? Is 43 the new 80 or something?
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I don’t want to knock her, cuz I agree, she is phenomenal, but that suit does look like she borrowed it from someone a couple sizes smaller than her. It’s not the most flattering look. Just sayin’…
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damn, this is really mean to be publishing unflattering pictures of her… it’s not like she’s billing herself as the next hot poptart actress… she’s helena fucking bonham carter… a serious, crazy, cooky zany actress… and was NEVER known for her good looks…
cut the woman some slack!!
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I love her. She can wear a banana suit and I will still love her.
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Lookin’ good = )
Just another mother and daughter day at the beach = )
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The article actually doesn’t say anything even remotely unflattering about her body. The suit is too small and she could use a little more support up top; How does that constitute being “all over it”?
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No kidding Orion - I thought 40 was supposed to be the new 20!
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She looks really good! Well-put, JayBird.
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Awwww…poor thing…she looks like the rest of us…
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You know what I see looking at those pictures? I see a woman enjoying being a mother, woman who likes to eat a hot dog from time to time, and drink a bottle of beer, a woman who doesn’t spend half of her life working-out and a woman who enjoys her body and embraces it with all its flaws and curves.I just hope that articles like this one in Daily Mail won’t make her think twice next time she enjoys a meal with her family and won’t turn her into a sinewy, miserable victim of some stupid standards.
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by the way, I have to comment on the pic of her getting the suit out of her butt; love it. She’s just like us regular folk.
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I really like them. I think we have all worn something unflattering to our figures at one tim,e or another.
I have no idea what being 43 has to do with anything. People in their 20’s can look like hell, age has nothing to do with how you look. It is all about how you take care of yourself and genetics. Age, to me, means nothing!
She looks fine.
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Well, wadda ya know…she looks like a NORMAL person! She’s always been known as an eccentric beauty. She IS from EUROPE and they don’t subscribe to the ridiculous standards of Americans, or rather those in Hollywood! Ugh! She still looks good overall.
An aside…looks like they may have taken their daughter to the Wild Animal Park, due to the tiger lunch pail. My son has the same one! So cool!
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Wild Animal Park in San Diego, that is…
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She’s probably had that swimsuit in her drawer since pre pregnanacy. When she finally needed it and dragged it out, she could care less whether it fit or not. It covered the private bits and that’s the plan. She doesn’t seem like the type to fuss over something not being perfect, as long as it’s serviceable. Love her.
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She looks good. Like a normal woman who has two small children.
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Let’s see. A talented actress happily married to a talented director, a nice little family vacationing together on a lovely summer’s day… and along come the papparazzi to spoil it with unsolicited shots and selling them to an unscrupulious news rag that is read by people who are so bored with their own sad and sorry lives that they have nothing better to do than enjoy trying to bring someone down to their level. Losers.
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I hope the paps didn’t spoil their day. It seems the paps are as hard to get rid of as roaches, and about as invasive. Love her - talented actress.
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She’s great, hands down. She looks a lot better than most of the women I see on the beach these days.
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Well said, LL!!
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I just don’t see the point of posting pics of her bending over and picking her wedge AT ALL… I mean, it’s like not she’s being billed as the next hot thing a la megan fox or something… what’s the point? I thought there was an unspoken rule that serious actors like her and say meryl streep or something didn’t have to be exposed in their bathing suits…
in either case, I LOVE this couple… here’s a pair that when you look at them you think “ok, I get why they’re together… they make sense”
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yikes, she could have done better with the swimsuit. wasn’t flattering to the good old body there.
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I love this actress too. She looks well health and proud of curves. She has check estimate of herself, and she doesn’t care about the tyrannical Hollywood didact. She smells nature & bio with full nose.
Her little girl is too smoothy & cute! -
She looks fine. Horrendous bathing suit though.
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Considering her typically odd fashion choices, this is probably the most “normal” she’s looked in ages!
Who cares if she doesn’t have a perfect body? Few of us are fortunate enough to have perfect bodies and perfect fashion sense at all times. She just looks like a happy mom having a fun day with her family. Maybe not the best swimsuit choice in the world for her, but who cares? It’s not like she entered a swimsuit competition; she’s just having a fun day at the beach with her family. Nothing wrong there.
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It is completely refreshing to see someone so talented and accomplished in the “biz” look so completely normal and natural. It makes you feel she has her priorities firmly in order and the scene with its paparazzi are WAY down on that list.
Her daughter, though—OMG she is ADORABLE! She looks like a little doll!
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I love how “normal” she looks! Her thighs meet just like mine!
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“Can you believe she left the house without wearing her Photoshop?” I’m putting this into my list of “favourite internet comments of all time.”
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Sometimes it’s not about being a celebrity and trying to look nice for the paparazzi - sometimes it’s just about being a mom and going swimming with your kid. You go, HBC.
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WHAT IS SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN. DEAR GOD, MY EYES.
Hell of an actress though
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I agree, bad bathing suit, but there’s nothing wrong with her body.
I think she’s beautiful (those eyes!) and a good actress. Cellulite does not equal ugly and useless.
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Gee, isn’t she the one who stole Emma Thompson’s husband (Kenneth Branaugh who is not only a fine actor but also a director) from her?
At the time, I didn’t think anyone could break up that marriage.
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She’s phenomenal!
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