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Amanda Peet isn't proud of not loving every single inch of her body, but still won't go very far in trying to make too many alterations because she's scared. Scared of it going badly, and also scared of what her daughters will think.
"It's painfully obvious, but I'm still ashamed to admit this: I care about my looks," the mother of three recently wrote in a post for Lenny. "How else can I explain my trainer, stylist, and Barney's card? I've bleached my teeth, dyed my hair, peeled and lasered my face, and tried a slew of age-defying creams. More than once, I've asked the director of photography on a show to soften my laugh lines. Nothing about this suggests I'm aging gracefully."
So what not have a little work done?
The 44-year-old actress explains, "I'm afraid one visit to a cosmetic dermatologist would be my gateway drug. I'd go in for a tiny, circumscribed lift and come out looking like a blowfish."
"I'm not happy about my saggy boobs...But I'm afraid that if I got a surgical lift, there would be some complication from the procedure, like septic shock. I'd be punished for being an ingrate about having made it this far in one (wrinkly) piece. My daughters would someday learn that the real reason I died was because I voluntarily checked myself into a hospital to get an elective operation that I didn't need so that I could look slightly more attractive to the three people who were paying close enough attention to notice (my husband, my gay agent, and the nice man who sends me notes from prison)."
Though that last paragraph nails it home for me, Amanda Peet also noted:
"Another frightening scenario is that one or both of my daughters will do as I did in my youth: go to college, take Feminist Texts and Theory, and stop shaving their legs and armpits. As hard-core feminists, they'll write me off. I'll cry, Why aren't you coming home for Thanksgiving? And they'll be like, You're nothing but a foot soldier for the beauty industrial complex. Letting my face age naturally will be my ace in the hole. My counterclaim. Proof that I didn't pander to the male gaze."
The conversation-starting question If money were no object would you get plastic surgery? is often tossed about, and I'm never quite sure how to answer it. Like Amanda, there are parts of my body I would love to change. I can make peace with them as they are, but that's not quite the same as truly loving and being proud of them.
But still -- I don't think I could follow through with it. On the chance something could happen during surgery I could never forgive myself (if I managed to live long enough to even try) for putting my family through all that. It isn't fear of my kids' judgment that personally keeps me away from the scalpel, it's fear of them losing me.
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More stars who've spoken out against altering their looks:
Kate Winslet has been quite vocal about her stance on having work done. "I will never give in," she proclaimed in 2011. "It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty."
Her children are daughter Mia, and sons Joe and Bear.
Kate's feelings are so strong on this topic she went so far as to create the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League, a vow between herself and our next star mom to never get surgery.
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Emma Thompson has spoken out against plastic surgery by stating, "It's not a normal thing to do, and the culture that we've created that says it's normal, is not normal."
She's mom to daughter Gaia and son Tindyebwa.
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Salma Hayek has taken on the topic of Botox specifically, sharing, "Trust me, I’ve been tempted—but I resist!
"Think about what happens to your muscles and skin if you’re sick and don’t move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate. Once you stop, what does that look like?"
The actress is likely working to set a great example for her daughter, Valentina.
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Judi Dench, who celebrated her 80th birthday in 2014, has earned the admiration of her peers for saying no plastic surgery.
Actress Kim Cattrall said once, "I look at people like Judi Dench, who's in her 70s, and I think, 'What the hell am I frightened of? In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting. I think a forehead without any lines doesn't tell me they've lived a life."
Judi's daughter is named Tara Cressida Frances Williams, but goes by Finty.
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Funny mom Tina Fey is planning on early retirement over going under the knife. She says, "Your choices are: Get old, or look creepy. I don't want to do it, so I feel I've got to get my money and get out of here before this thing [points to her face] blows. Because I feel like the years of sleep deprivation are going to catch up with me."
She's mom to daughters Alice and Penelope.
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In 2010 Meryl Streep said, "To each his own. I really understand the chagrin that accompanies ageing, especially for a woman, but I think people look funny when they freeze their faces."
This Oscar-winning actress is mom to four! Her daughters are Mamie, Grace and Louisa, while her son's name is Henry.
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“I just don’t know if I want to mess with that,” Diane Keaton has shared. “The point is, no matter what you do, you’re going to get older and you won’t be here forever. So how do you grapple with it? How do you feel good about yourself?”
Diane is mom to son Duke and daughter Dexter.
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Jamie Lee Curtis: “I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is ‘anti,’” she once blogged. “Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging …. We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.”
Her children are daughter Annie and son Thomas.
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Julia Roberts thinks of her children on the rare instance she's tempted to have something done.
“It was not a cute look for me,” she said after experiencing Botox's frozen-face syndrome. “My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I’m feeling at the exact moment I’m feeling it.”
She's mom to daughter Hazel, and sons Phinnaeus and Henry.
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Brooke Shields has flirted with having work done, but is careful not to go too far. In 2010 she explained, "I want laser treatment because I'm not a fan of my wrinkles, but I have to find someone with a light touch. I'm scared I'll end up looking like the Joker."
Her daughters are Grier and Rowan.
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Sigourney Weaver believes "life should put lines on your face."
“I find that look scary,” she once said in an interview. “I like getting older. There’s nothing more inspiring to me than a woman in her 70s who’s full of life and still useful. I never notice age in people’s faces. I just look at the whole person.”
The Aliens actress is mom to a singleton, daughter Charlotte.
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Julianne Moore is wary of having work done becoming too common. She is quoted as saying, “Cosmetic surgery itself starts to look normal, and we lose track of what a real face is like.”
This star is mom to son Caleb and daughter Liv.
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In 2007, Jodie Foster told People magazine, "'It's not my thing. I don't have anything against it for other people. Whatever they want to do, I'm fine with it. For me, it's really a self-image thing. Like, I'd rather have somebody go, 'Wow, that girl has a bad nose' than 'Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.'"
She is mom to sons Charles and Kit.
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