43 year-old former “Melrose Place” actress Courtney Thorne Smith just landed a job promoting Botox. She claimed in a new interview with People that she doesn’t want to look frozen or not like herself, but she just looks crazed in the photo they’re using with the article. I guess she usually looks like that, so mission accomplished.
“It’s never been a secret in my personal life – I’ve just never been asked by the press,” says Thorne-Smith, 44, the new celebrity face of Botox. “I’ve used it, I like it, it works well for me. That’s just the simple truth.”
The actress and mother of a 3½-year-old son owns up to first getting injections about 10 years ago, when the lines on her forehead started to bother her.
“I found I’ve been able to use it and have full expression and look really normal,” she says. “I found the frown line was distracting me – I was conscious of it. Now I’m not.”
Would the Two and a Half Men guest star consider getting plastic surgery?
“My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won’t have to use anything else,” says Thorne-Smith, who then adds: “Never say never. I always want to look like myself – that’s key for me. I don’t want to look like a different person, I don’t want my face frozen.”
[From People]
I am 38 years old, and I don’t know when the hell that happened. If I knew for a fact that I could get Botox or Restylne tomorrow and look fresh and natural with imperceptible changes I would do it today. If I knew that I could get a face lift or major surgery and end up looking like Sandra Bullock where people would look at me and think “she looks amazing, did she do something because I can’t see it?” I would also do it today. As it is, we notice the bad work, the bulging forehead veins from Botox, the chipmunk cheeks and the plumped up, painful looking lips from fillers. It’s just too much of a risk. Plus I actually like being able to frown. The examples on the Botox website show women who aren’t able to frown afterwards and look kind of evil in the after shots.
I prefer to stay out of the sun for now and practice good skincare. (I got one of those Neutrogena microdermabrasion system for $18 at CVS and that does seem to make a difference in my skin, although I have to use antibiotic ointment on my upper lip and chin area or I will get small blemishes from it.) At some point I may get some injectables. Courtney Thorne Smith isn’t going to convince me though. She looks more like the face of hyperthyroidism with those wide unseeing eyes. She’s like 10 seconds away from lunging at you while cackling loudly. I should be nicer to her. She quit Ally McBeal in 2000 due to her struggles with an eating disorder. She was one of many women who had that problem on that show.
In 2003. See, she looks the same!
In 2009. You can see the difference in the lines on her face from the photo at the very top of the page. I don’t know if it’s better, though.
Credit: Fame
getting too thin ages you so fast.
It looks to me like she has also done something with her teeth. Her trademark smile when she was young was that you couldn’t really see the bottom line of her upper teeth unless she really opened very wide.
Not a fan of Botox at all. Those examples on their website are scary. It is NOT a good thing to erase your frown.
The eyes look a little scary but at least she hasn’t done the lip thing yet. She has fine wrinkles around her eyes. Throwing a question out there to anyone – does botox accentuate those wrinkles because they appear pretty prominent to me???
The top pic lighting is terrible, just terrible. She looks beautiful in every way in the third pic in the leather jacket. Hair, makeup, face. I realize it was a few years ago but still….that top pic is just bad.
Note the bulging forehead veins does not always come from Botox, my high school friend had a forehead vein whenever she smiled or laugh to hard it would show.
That pic from ’03 looks scary as hell, she looks better now.
@Dani
I think people end up with very prominent crows feet because it’s such a contrast to the other parts of the face which look unnaturally smooth.
Plus, you probably can’t help but try to emote like you used to. But if some parts of your face are not moving then others must pick up the slack and move even more.
Only 43?! She looks 50s to me.
Convincing me to never touch it. She’s not old enough to look so haunted. It looks like she’s trying to signal for help with her eyes.
She has a lot of crow’s feet for someone who’s 43.
I’m 35 and I have none. Yet. 😉
Hmmm, bad spokesmodel for Botox since I’d actually have guessed her somewhat older than 43 – maybe like 46-50.
@Sue – bulging forehead veins can come from botox since botox thins the overlying muscle tissue. Can also just be genetic though.
I agree getting thin has the potential to make you *look* older…but it can also lower your blood pressure, cholesterol etc, making your ‘real’ body age much younger. You’d be surprised how many thin people can have these problems. My very little, slim and fit daughter has GENETICALLY very high cholesterol. She has always eaten and loved very healthy food and is on a kind of crazy exercise regime (let me add she’s thrilled, it’s varied, and she still bounds about like a gazelle after her various exercise classes). She lost weight as she had a growth spurt and her cholesterol dropped by 1/3 over a year. I was thrilled.
I’d add that whenever I’m thinner I get told I look too gaunt but right now I have packed on 20lbs and so many people have said how great I look. Meanwhile, my dr was not pleased to say the least with my latest blood pressure and cholesterol, which is way above the healthy range. In sum, I’d rather not look like a prune, but wrinkles are better than a heart attack (heart disease runs in my family).
Well, that’s just my one point of view to add to the mix.
She looks terrible for being only 43. In the top photo her teeth look like (new) veneers.
She looks much better (crow’s feet and all) in that last photo.
ugghh this basic bitch again.
She looks like a freak. And she started with Botox in her mid 30s? You don’t need to it then. She is going to be a mess real soon I bet, that’s gotta do something to you, all that Botox.
she’s morphing into katie couric!
She looks like she’s had something done to her gums or her lips, because her big smile is totally different.
In any case, she’s an odd choice for a spokesperson because she’s always looked bug-eyed and one of the drawbacks of Botox is potentially looking perpetually surprised.
Moreover, Courtney looks her age and I thought the whole point of using Botox is to look younger.
If she has had Botox, it would only be on her forehead, because she obviously has some serious crow’s feet going on. And why would someone go in for Botox and just leave the crow’s feet untouched? Makes no sense.
Well, I can’t blame her. She probably needs the extra work and figured that since she’s been getting botox for so many years she may as well get paid for it.
Crow’s feet suck. I have them and can’t stand them. I’m 39 and in spite of taking good care of my skin since I was in my early 20’s I got them anyway. I tried Botox a few times and it worked but was expensive and ultimately not worth the money for the length of time it lasts. I’m on the thin side of normal and if someone promised me that gaining 10 lbs would get rid of my crow’s feet I’d do it in a heartbeat. I don’t think it works that way, though. Anyone out there notice that their wrinkles significantly improved when they gained a little weight? Any tips on good OTC products that really make a difference? I’ll have to check out the Neutrogena system that Celebitchy mentioned.
“She’s like 10 seconds away from lunging at you while cackling loudly”
Hilarious!
Becky, have you tried Retin A yet? Not OTC, but pretty much any dermatologist will write you a scrip. Not an instant fix, but 3 months in, it’s definitely softened my starting crows feet (I’m 43).
I just started getting Botox about 4 months ago and love the results. the only thing that I dont like (and it’s because I’m very sensitive) is headaches that wont go away for three days. Otherwise I love the results.
@crazycatlady: I agree with you. I think what makes her look so unnatural is that her eyes seem to be the only part of her face that are aging. It’s the inconsistency of her face that makes her look so odd.