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Photos: Top, Jodie Foster. Next, right, Eva Longoria Parker. Next, left, Gwen Stefani. Bottom, Kevin Costner. (AP photos)

JUST SAY NO

Call them the Don’t-Do-It Dozen. They’re 12 top Hollywood stars who have sworn off plastic surgery.

Many are in their 30s, so they haven’t faced the full brunt of the aging process, but they include Kevin Costner, age 53; Jodie Foster, 45 (pictured at right); Brad Pitt, 44; Julianne Moore, 43; and Halle Berry, 41.

The newspaper Sunday Life in Belfast, Northern Ireland, compiled the list of nay-sayers, which is far from a complete tally of Hollywood opponents of cosmetic procedures.

Are they all telling the truth? Several have been the topic of speculation that they have already undergone plastic surgery, including Drew Barrymore, Gwen Stefani, Halle Berry and Costner.

And, of course, some might change their minds after looking in the mirror sometime in the future.

In addition to Cate Blanchett, 38, and Moore, whose views have already appeared in this blog, here’s the lineup:

Kate Winslet, 32, rejects cosmetic work, saying, “I want to be able to really show the expressions on my face.”

Eva Longoria Parker, 33, (pictured right):

“God blessed me with some great, unique features - some beautiful, in my eyes, and some not so beautiful. But I think we are all created this way for a reason, so I have no desire to tamper with that.

“I do a lot of anti-ageing things to slow the process down, but I will never cut my face.

“I think 80 is beautiful. I think my mother is beautiful, my sisters are beautiful.”

Drew Barrymore, 33: “I just know it’s a slippery slope, and everybody’s starting to look a little waxy lately. I’m going to do everything I can not to go down that road.”

Rachel Weisz, 37: “People who look too perfect don’t look sexy or particularly beautiful.”

Gwen Stefani, 38, (pictured at left): “I’m hoping my children will save me from my vanity. It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.” However, she has also been quoted as saying that will consider having plastic surgery.

Halle Berry, 41: “You have this plastic, very much copy-cat sort of face that’s evolving, and that’s very frightening to me. It’s really insane, and I feel sad that that’s what society is doing to women.”

Brad Pitt, 44: “I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.”

He adds:

“One thing sucks, your face kind of goes. Your body’s not quite working the same. But you earned it. You earned that — things falling apart.”

Jodie Foster, 45, says she would prefer hearing that she has a bad nose than a bad nose job.

“I’d rather have a comment about who I am than about something that identifies me as being ashamed of who I am.”

“It’s not my thing,” but “I don’t have anything against it for other people,” she says.

Kevin Costner, 53, (pictured at left):

“I am never going for a hairpiece, dye or nips and tucks. You will always have to take me as you find me.

“We can all hear whispers. In my case, they still say, ‘He’s taller than I thought’.

“But there will come the day when they will say, ‘He is much older than I remember him’.”

The twelfth star on the list is Liv Tyler, 31, who might not belong there.

She’s quoted as saying, “I really do look after my skin because I don’t want to ever have plastic surgery. I want to do the best I can with what I have.”

But the Make Me Heal cosmetic-medicine Web site reported last year that she has changed her mind.
“I’m definitely going to have some (plastic surgery), I’m sure,” she said then. “Especially when you see what happens to your body after you have a baby.”

She’s also the subject of rumors that she has had a nose job. Her full lips arouse speculation that they’re the result of a doctor’s intervention, but it’s more likely that she gets them from her father, rock star Steven Tyler.

Related links:

• Julianne Moore joins ranks of Botox nay-sayers
• Plastic surgery opponent Cate Blanchett says wrinkles can be sexy
• Botox-bashing celebrities vs. hypocrisy watchdogs
• Heidi Klum prefers ‘dinosaur’ look over plastic surgery
• Anna Kournikova says no to breast implants, Botox (with photos)
• ‘Mamma Mia’ star Julie Walters thrives on menopause, no Botox
• Meryl Streep tells male actors to resist plastic surgery
• Survey: Is Botox Cosmetic safe?
• 9 challenges to the reign of King Botox
• Plastic surgery could become ‘must have’ career move. (Do you agree?)

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