Kim Cattrall has made one hell of a bold public statement, especially for a woman intent on dating younger men. She’s vowed that she won’t ever get plastic surgery, and won’t try to look like she’s twenty. I say right on… but ask me again in fifteen years and I might have a different response.
Kim Cattrall has vowed never to have plastic surgery – because she thinks she’d become unrecognisable.
At 51, the Sex And The City star insists she’s not bothered at losing her looks.
‘I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. But I’ve no desire to look as though I’m in my 20s,’ Kim, who played Samantha in the hit US show, tells the Daily Express.
‘I don’t think I’d try plastic surgery. I’d be too frightened I’d end up not looking like myself. I don’t want to look in the mirror and see The Joker from Batman staring back at me!’
[From NOW Magazine]
Kim is 51, and whenever I see pictures of her I always think how old she looks for her age. It just hit me that that’s not the case at all – she looks great for 51. But we’re so used to seeing actresses donning faces pulled within an inch of their lives, and we get used to that look. It becomes the norm, and an expectation. Kim looks fabulous, and she still looks like herself.
Some friends of mine have a seven-year-old daughter who told me she thought all the women in the movies and on TV were related. We had a long discussion, and apparently she came to that conclusion because so many of them looked the same to her. I thought it was really cute at the time, and just assumed she couldn’t distinguish faces of people she didn’t know well. Totally age appropriate. But when I re-think it, she’s right. So many women get work done, and instead of trying to look like a better version of themselves, they try to all look like each other. And they all come out looking sort of related.
I say to each her own, but bravo to Kim for looking like herself.
Kim Cattrall is shown sitting next to designer Vivienne Westwood at her fashion show at Berlin fashion week on 7/20/08. She’s also shown on 7/19, 7/16, and 7/17 with Eva Padberg. Credit: WENN
But didn’t she have a boob job? I guess that’s different from botox, but idk.
I like Kim Cattrall but I’m sure she’s had botox and all the other non-surgical procedures going. Don’t see anything too admirable about her saying she’ll never resort to plastic surgery since plastic surgery in itself is not the problem. It doesn’t have to result in the obsessive, desperate fright masks she’s referring to here. I bet she will in time.
Shouldn’t actresses’ faces age faster than most women’s because of their work? Moving the muscles around increases the probability of wrinkles, and actresses have to move their faces around a lot and talk a lot, I would think.
Karen: Stage (i.e. “Real”) actors, yes. But movie actors simply have normal conversations for a living. Those “KAAAAAAHN!” moments are few and far between.
I think she looks smashing for 51.
A woman I know told me that she tries not to make facial expressions because they cause wrinkles. What’s the point of living? Not to have wrinkles?
Then again, I’ve seen some performances by Nicole Kidman where I swear she didn’t move her face at all. Such a strange choice for an ACTRESS to make, to use a substance that makes your face lack expression. (I suppose she thought she’d just get reviewed as giving a ‘nuanced’ and ‘subtle’ performance that so many male actors are lauded with.
So IS botox, et al. considered plastic surgery? Even if not technically surgery, it’s the same intent, no? It can go terribly wrong too.
I would consider Botox a spa treatment.
Anything that requires a scalpel is surgery.
She looks great 😀
I agree daisy…botox is a treatment and not plastic surgery. Most dermotolgoists give botox for a mirad of symptoms. I think if you can go in the office have a few injections and then head out the door, more spa treatment than surgery.
I do think that a doctor should perform the injections, a friend had botox done at a spa and she was overcharged and no one could see the results.
i think she looks amazing, botox or not. doubt she had a boob job – her boobs look the same as on SATC. i wish more actresses would age naturally, and i agree with zoe about nicole kidman’s face – i can’t concentrate on any movie with her now because i am so distracted by her plastic face. why is that considered attractive?!
I have no issue with plastic surgery. I have my dad’s eyes and at 75 he looks like his eyelids are going to EAT his eyeballs. 😆 So suffice it to say I’ll be having an eye lift in a good 10 years. BUT… there’s a difference between tweaking or fixing something that really bothers you and attempting to always look like you’re 15. Kim looks fabulous.
geronimo, the problem is that you really don’t know what you’re going to wind up with. Look at Jennifer Grey, who went to someone reputable and really did become unrecognizable as a result of (a) bad work and (b) correcting the actual problems caused by bad work. She’s attractive, but she really doesn’t look like Jennifer Grey.
@KateN – Yes, that’s a fair point. What I meant was that sometimes a discreet facelift, eye work etc can be a far better solution than continuous botox which is god awful most of the time. And the thing with botox, once they start, it seems to be completely addictive and a lot of these women end up looking like death warmed up anyway, completely negating any temporary improvements.
I think Kim’s lovely and looks great now and good for her if she’s confident enough to go down the Jamie Lee Curtis route, but she is a big botox user and that’s not a long-term solution if she wants to continue to look good.
Why not?? In this day and age if done early and wisely you can look great!!I did it at 40….one too many weight gain/weight loss….no one knew-truely.
I highly doubt she’s never had any work done. Come on, do you really see 51 year old woman who look like that? With no facial sagging at all? Personally I think every actress (and actor) of a certain age has had work done. I think it’s pretty much part of their job.
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I may be being naieve to believe that she hasn’t had anything done to her face, but women can look like that when they’re 51. It’s all in the genes. Look at a lot of black people. They don’t age very drastically. My dad and his sisters all look way younger than their age. My mother (who is white and 58) is the same way. She took care of her self from the beginning (washing face, moisturizing all the time, eating well,hiding from the sun, etc.) and she can put some women in their 40s to shame.
The bottom line is,Kim is a beauty and the best looking one on Sex. Nicole Kidman is TRYING to look like the Catrall-type but has too big a forehead to compete on that level.
Nan, get over the big forehead on Nicole, move on. 😆
Damn!
I was hoping something would be in the works since she hit the wall a few years back.
This chick was hot in mannequin-what was that 1980???
This SITC claim to fame in her fading years has given some life to this old bag. Does anyone here really think she has any milage left on her old and tired body.
BTW-she is the queen of body doubles-so any SITC references to her body are completely off the mark-I’m sorry to say…
Oh, c’mon! this chic doesn’t need any surgery. I’d love to look like that at her age.
Sorry Spoonman55, but I think you’re being rude for no reason.