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"Kidman gives botox a bad name: expert"
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Kidman gives botox a bad name: expert
Nicole Kidman is so over-botoxed she is giving the cosmetic medicine industry a bad name for creating a "bat face" look, a leading Canadian botox expert has told Australian specialists.
The Australian star has denied using the anti-wrinkle treatment, recently saying her look is "completely natural".
But Dr Martin Braun, one of the largest users of botox on the American continent, says there is no doubt Kidman has been an "enthusiastic user".
Dr Braun, who is based in Vancouver, dubbed "Hollywood North", told the Australian cosmetic medicine conference on the Gold Coast that he believed Kidman was "doing too much at the wrong time" with the drug, which works by paralysing muscles and softening the face.
"Nicole seems to get her botox done two or three weeks before a big event so when she, for instance, goes up on stage to collect her Academy Award she looks frozen and strange," Dr Braun told AAP.
"She looks like a bat with too much of an (outer) brow lift, the middle of the brow's been dropped, she's crying when she accepts her Oscar but nothing is moving.
"That's really doing nothing to help our job because we've got women coming to us saying that's what we don't want to look like."
He said users should be getting their injections two to three months out from a big event so the effect had started to wear off, and actors in particular should use minimal product.
"Everything is accentuated on camera so I would say they should be going much easier than they are so they don't look like a doe caught in headlights," Dr Braun said.
"These people who have extraordinary amounts of money and fame are actually getting, in my opinion, poor medical advice."
Dr Gabrielle Caswell, from the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia (CPSA), agreed Kidman was a likely botox user, saying "she's a bit too wrinkle-free for an Australian of her skin tone".
"She was using a little too much, especially in the forehead," said Dr Caswell, a specialist with clinics in NSW and Queensland.
"Obviously she's not at the moment because she's pregnant but the photos show a lot more expression in her face now."
Dr Caswell said it was industry consensus that other Australian stars like Elle Macpherson and Kylie Minogue also used botox, and Angelina Jolie, the so-called gold standard of beauty, was "a definite".
Dr Braun said he believed 99 per cent of stars in Hollywood or otherwise were botox converts, "they just don't like admitting it, that's all".
Newly-released US statistics show there were 2.7 million botox procedures carried out in 2007, more than all the liposuction, breast augmentation and skin-plumping procedures put together.
The CPSA estimates Australians spent $300 million on non-surgical treatments last year, with the biggest spending on botox.
Comment was being sought from Kidman's publicist.
Women are so fucking dumb. Why on earth would you voluntarily paralyse your face?
Leave Nicole Kidman alone! Please!
Im from Australia and everyone loves this chick here. But i cant stand her head!!! makes me sick.
Re: tawny – You said it Tawny.They have to be the most mismatched couple I have ever seen.He's sooo hot she's a frozen bitch. He's talented as hell,she can't act for shit. He's warm and friendly,she's snobby and stuck up.I can't understand how they wound up together.The only thing remotley attractive about this woman is her bank account.
she is getting so old :O !
Re: paul – I am Australian and I bloody don't.. I've not seen ANY good acting from her since BMX bandits and she looks really fake and wax like..
The wicked witch to the west???
HA! Im so naughty. just kidding nicole all the best to you and your baby…in comming.
~*Ang*~
Why cant older women and men just face that they are getting older and just be natural about themselves..It disgusts me to see all these people especially women mess up there faces just to look 10 years younger…They should all realize that when they are dead it is not going to matter what they look like and I dont really think God cares what anyone looks like and I am sure that he doesnt like people doing that to themselves either…Dumb people make dumb choices but I guess that is life but I am glad that I am one of the intellectual ones…
Dont you think she is looking a little Vivienne Westwood in that picture?
Honestly, why do people give her such crap. She looks great. She's been married the biggest movie star in the world. She's won an oscar. And she's pregnant and looks as good as any 40 year old can under the blazing heat of all this scrutiny. Who here can claim half of what she's managed?
I used to think Tom was the big ol'weirdo in that family but the more I hear and see of her I think she was even worse. There's a reason she doesn't do many interviews. Her lack of intelligence/education is very obvious when someone isn't writing her lines. She'd be a nobody had she not hooked up with Cruise.
Damn… she's lookin like the old lady from Titanic.
i think she looks like the snow witch from disneys narnia.
POOR KEITH URBAN WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, NOTHINIG IS APPEALING ABOUT HER, HER LOOKS, PERSONALITY, WHO CARES SHE HAS TOM CRUISES MONEY, BUT UG!!! I STILL LOVE KEITH URBAN BUT SHE CERTAINLY IS NOT HIS BETTER HALF!!!hopefully the baby will look like him, and get his talent. was so disappointed when they got married, he could have done so much better, not only is she frozen she is a ugly ice princess.
I hate her she looks fucking nasty I hate the way she tried to save her stupid alcoholic husband too ugh how annoying no one likes her
Aside from the obvious overbotox….THE TEETH…YIKES>>THIS IS THE TYPICAL OVER-USE OF BRACES WHEN YOUR TEETH GO IN (looking like little rat teeth) - INSTEAD OF BEING STRAIGHT. I think this turns me off more than the botox.!
If one keeps up with an exfoliation regimen you will not have wrinkles. There are other skin care products which temporarily cause either plumping or reduce the stress in the face. With all of those venomous wenches out there she probably only needs these on the red carpet
she looks horrible…..looks like an old lady……
SHE IS ONE UGLY OLD LADY. SHE IS A PALE, UGLY , STICK FIGURE - NO CURVES. I HATE PALE UGLY WOMEN.
i dont mean to sounds mean or anything but she looks really old in this pics
Wow! Jessica Tandy looks fabulous!
We give actors shit for using botox, but they don't get hired if they look older. I don't think we should be giving the actors a hard time about how they look, old or young. This is a society obsessed with looking young rather than being intelligent and healthy. Blame Hollywood for the lengths people go to, for youth. I think people spend too much time worrying about how old others look rather than worrying about themselves. Who blogging is a super model, myself included? We all age it's normal, the question is why are we not staring at a picture of you or George Clooney ? It seems to be ok for men and normal people to age. Just not famous women.
she's just old,okay.
ugly,old nothing appealing about her, shes a has been, she should just stay out of hollywood after she has the baby, and live a normal life.
keith what were you thinking!
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pase lo que pase…
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me gusta la web….
whatever man… it's really sad that we bash people for getting botox but bash them more for not. who cares.. sh elooks fine, better than most people i see walking down the street.
She also gives a bad name to ageing, actors, women, Australians,,the list goes on