Cate Blanchett Plastic Surgery Before and After Facelift and Body

Cate Blanchett on plastic surgery: 'It doesn’t fill me with admiration, it fills me with pity.'

Cate Blanchett isn’t willing to meet in the middle when it comes to the topic of plastic surgery. The au naturel Oscar-winning actress, who is currently filming The Hobbit, was asked the inevitable plastic surgery question during an interview with Fashionista.com and gave an answer that would bring a smile to any woman’s face. (Well, any woman’s face that is still capable of smiling, anyway.)

“There’s been a decade or so of people doing intervention with their face and their body. Now that we’re emerging from that people are seeing that long term, it’s not so great,” the 42-year-old — who has been put on People‘s Most Beautiful People list — said, adding, “I’m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, but I know what works for me. I’d just be too frightened about what it means long term. In the end if you have all that stuff done… in the end you just see the work. It doesn’t fill me with admiration, it fills me with pity.”

But Blanchett (whose beauty regimen includes things like “essential oil, like emu oil” or getting an “oxygen facial”… ah the rich, beautiful, and famous — they’re nothing like us!) is hardly the only famous untouched face in Hollywood to speak out against plastic surgery. As ABC News reported last year, Kate Winslet told the UK media she will “never give in” to the pressure to get work done, while Emma Thompson similarly stated, “I’m not fiddling about with myself.”

Why Cate Blanchett Will Never Get Plastic Surgery

Unlike some of her peers, Cate Blanchett is looking forward to aging naturally.

The Academy Award winner, 42, says she'll never go under the knife to turn back the hands of time. "There's been a decade or so of people doing intervention with their face and their body," she tells Fashionista. "Now that we're emerging from that, people are seeing that long term it's not so great."

Cate Blanchett, one of the most elegant and beautiful presences in today's cinema, is very much against plastic surgery, she reveals in a new interview. Seeing its results in the long run absolutely fills her with pity.

Sitting down for an interview with Fashionista, Cate dishes it all on her beauty routine, the products she swears by, makeup tips and, last but not least, where she stands on plastic surgery or any other drastic intervention that would serve the same purpose.

Granted, she's not the only one to go on the record saying she would never get any kind of work done but, in her case, it's not necessarily because she wants to age gracefully.

However, seeing the results of the work others have done keeps Cate horrified enough to not even consider giving it a try.

“There’s been a decade or so of people doing intervention with their face and their body. Now that we’re emerging from that people are seeing that long term it’s not so great,” the actress says.

“I’m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, but I know what works for me. I’d just be too frightened about what it means long term,” Cate explains.

“In the end if you have all that stuff done... in the end you just see the work. It doesn’t fill me with admiration, it fills me with pity,” she adds.

Instead, she keeps moisturized and protected from the harmful rays of the sun. She knows that's the best way to keep the skin looking youthful for longer.

Cate also swears by an old morning ritual, though she couldn't say how or if it actually works.

“I do the old glass of lemon juice in water in the morning. It just keeps your system going. I think it’s like people who get into colonic therapy – there’s a logic behind it. The French have been doing it, the Egyptians did it,” she says.

As for makeup, she would advise any woman to keep it as simple as possible: don't use lash curlers, never apply blue eyeshadow yourself (it must always be done by a professional) and don't overpluck the eyebrows.

Cate Blanchett: Confident Without Plastic Surgery

My birthday is next month and I am already feeling like I am about one hip replacement short of getting my AARP card. It is bad enough that when I went to get my regular skin check at the dermatologist’s office last week the doctor asked me at least four times if I wanted some Botox. I get it: I look like an old hag. But my fear is that once you start the injectables a little becomes a little more and next thing you know you have a frozen cat face.
Megan Fox, for example, was a little known actress until she starred in the Michael Bay film Transformers. Known for her body, and less for her actual acting chops, she has reportedly had Botox, eyelid surgery, a nose job, cheek fillers, laser skin resurfacing and lip injections to alter her appearance. “I’m insecure,” the Friends With Kids actress recently admitted. “I [hardly ever] look at myself, even in still photographs.” She is only 25 years old.

So you mix insecurity with a desire to become famous in an industry that gives you work largely based on how you look. Then in turn we women see the cover photo of an actress we like who is probably surviving on a 500 calorie diet with false eyelashes, hair extensions, and a body tweaked by a plastic surgeon in a designer gown with professional makeup, and even that is airbrushed.
Ladies, here is something to brighten your day.

Cate Blanchett graces the cover of Intelligent Life this month in an untouched photo. The magazine’s editor, Tim de Lisle, explained the reasoning behind the un-retouched image in his editor’s letter: “When other magazines photograph actresses, they routinely end up running heavily Photoshopped images, with every last wrinkle expunged. Their skin is rendered so improbably smooth that, with the biggest stars, you wonder why the photographer didn’t just do a shoot with their waxwork…She looks like what she is” continues de Lisle, “a woman of 42, spending her days in an office, her evenings on stage and the rest of her time looking after three young children.

Do you think Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, or Angelina Jolie would ever let you see them without the help of some needles, a makeup artist, and a Photoshop Editor?
That is who we are, my friends. Sometimes you don’t have enough time to completely brush your hair before you walk out the door. You don’t always have the time to put on makeup when your kids are screaming, you have a stack of paperwork calling your name, and you still haven’t figured out how to get back into your skinny jeans. You have lines around your mouth and that canal that lies between your eyes. But confidence is beauty.