Ellen Barkin fears for Scarlett’s looks
To be honest beauty surgery is like a personal opinion: to each his own.
The 53-year-old actress Ellen Barkin is alarmed after she keeps on hearing stories of today’s actors’ fearlessness to go under the knife, in order to preserve their young appearance. In Hollywood, going for your favourite beauty surgeons is like shopping for your favourite hair conditioner, a sight that has become a trend and familiar.
She specifically mentioned Scarlett, who a month ago declared that she doesn’t have any qualms opting for surgery if she feels too old and wrinkly.
Ellen, who is going to appear in the upcoming “Ocean’s Thirteen,” thinks otherwise.
Unlike some of her peers, though, Barkin says she’s never had plastic surgery and never will. “I don’t have a political problem with it, I just don’t want to look crazy! Would I rather look the way I looked when I was 43? Yes. 33? No. I always thought women peaked between 36 and 43. Something happens to your face and everything just settles in. I look at that gorgeous little Scarlett Johansson and I think, ‘Oh, my God, what is that girl going to look like when she’s a woman?!”
The Jewish-American actress made news last year when she sold the jewelries she got from her second husband, the billionaire cosmetics mogul Ronald Perelman, saying instead of making her remember the good and bad times and in turn hurt her it would be better to dispose them and start a new life. Feminists embraced her action and she has become their new idol.
Ellen Barkin, Ronald Perelman, Ocean’s Thirteen, beauty surgery
May 30th, 2007 at 6:07 am
I’m happy to hear this- I think she’s a great role model for aging gracefully- wouldn’t it be nice if more women had the confidence to do just that?! I just read a really interesting article about her in the latest issue of More magazine and really liked what she had to say!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:12 pm
oh please, she a hooker perlman overpaid for. she’s i oceans 13 but she still has to talk trash about younger prettier actresses to even get press. her career is all but over.