Debra Messing is scared of Botox, surgeon’s knife

October 7th, 2008, 7:39 am · Post a Comment · posted by Colin Stewart

Photos: Above, Debra Messing arrives last month at Emmy awards ceremony. Below, at last month’s premiere of “The Women.” (AP photos)

FEAR OF THE KNIFE

Actress Debra Messing says she’s scared of Botox and plastic surgery, especially what those procedures would do to her facial expressions.

Messing, who reportedly has had a nose job, currently stars in the USA network series “The Starter Wife,” which premieres Friday, and the new movie “The Women,” now in theaters. She is best known for her role in the sitcom “Will and Grace.”

The 40-year-old actress was asked by a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interviewer, “Facial expressions are so much a part of your acting repertoire. Does that mean you will never do Botox or surgery?” She replied:

Well, I haven’t done it yet, and you know that is the reason. I don’t think of myself as depending on facial expression more than any other actors, but I do know that I learned to be very expressive from my mother.

I think I have an aesthetic for a certain kind of comedy that is full-body comedy. So, because of that aesthetic, so far I have been just way too scared to consider freezing or changing a part of my face so that I looked tighter or younger or what have you.

Messing’s nose job is sub-par, says rhinoplasty specialist Dr. Jason Diamond of Beverly Hills. In a discussion of the outcome of her plastic surgery and actress Lisa Kudrow’s, he says:

Being a resident of Beverly Hills I see many celebrities up close and personal. The 2 nose jobs that bother me quite a bit are Debra Messing’s and Lisa Kudrow’s. Both are obviously beautiful and successful women and most lay people may not even pay close attention to their noses. Upon close inspection both look unnatural and unpleasing to my eye and I consider poor rhinoplasty results.

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