Orange County Register

Why eradicate the evidence of the life you’ve lived, actress asks

Actress Cate Blanchett, who stars in the latest “Indiana Jones” movie that opens Thursday (pictured at right), declares that she’ll never sign up for plastic surgery. People’s bodies, she says, carry valuable signs of the life they’ve lived.

A mother of three children, she told Glamour magazine in Great Britain:

“I see someone’s face, someone’s body who has had children, and I think they’re the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that?

“Death is not going to be any easier just because your face can’t move.”

Express yourself, Cate. Sounds like you’re no fan of Botox either.

The lead photo above shows Blanchett last year, at age 37. Below, the top row shows her last year (left) and this year, at age 38 (right). The bottom row below shows her in 1999, at age 29 (left), and in 2001, at age 31 (right) with husband Andrew Upton and newborn son, Dashiell John.

Related links:

• Margaret Cho tells how to learn to like your body
• Sally Field is thinking of getting plastic surgery; what’s your advice?
• Gwyneth Paltrow at 35, no longer the freshest face in Hollywood
• Plastic surgery could become ‘must have’ career move. (Do you agree?)

For more on celebrities and cosmetic medicine, see list of links on the right side of this blog.

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