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Photo: British actress Rachel Weisz in May. (AP photo)

BOTOX BAN

Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz, 39, despises Botox, but her latest suggestion about the wrinkle-fighting drug doesn’t quite make sense.

“It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen,” Weisz told the British version of Harpers Bazaar. “Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?”

If you believed Weisz, you’d think that widely reputed Botox user Nicole Kidman is to acting what steroid user Barry Bonds is to baseball. But you’d be wrong.

Steroids give athletes an unfair advantage, which is a prime reason why they’re banned.

Botox doesn’t create such a simple unfair situation. True, the injections confer the advantage of smoothing away wrinkles, but they also can put actors at a disadvantage by limiting their range of expression.

Nicole Kidman isn’t movies’ counterpart to Barry Bonds.

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