8 Celebrities Who Refrained From Cosmetic Surgery and Embraced Their Natural Beauty

Getting old is part of the natural cycle of life, and at some point, we will all start perceiving the first signs of aging. When you’re always in the spotlight, it might be difficult to accept wrinkles and other indications of age. While many celebrities have had cosmetic surgery to correct these “imperfections,” some women have valued and kept their natural beauty in order to love themselves even more.

Emma Thompson

The 63-year-old actress acknowledges that women are still expected to look a certain way. She explained, ’’Nothing has changed in the dreadful demands made upon women in the real world but also in acting.’’

However, Thompson herself is completely against plastic surgery. She noted, “Why would you do that to yourself, I simply don’t understand.” The 2-time Oscar winner went on saying that changing yourself in order to ’’avoid [...] aging, which is completely natural, is a form of collective psychosis.’’ She added, ’’I really do think it’s a very strange thing to do."

Halle Berry

The Oscar winner admits that, as an actress, she feels the pressure to alter her face, and the thoughts of Botox have crossed her mind. “I just have kept reminding myself that beauty really is as beauty does, and it is not so much about my physical self. Aging is natural, and that’s going to happen to all of us. I just want to always look like myself, even if that’s an older version of myself,” she said.

Kate Winslet

The 47-year-old actress revealed that plastic surgery goes against the morals that her parents brought her up with and also what she considers as “natural beauty.” Winslet insists, “I will never give in.” Moreover, she explained, ’’I am an actress, I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.’’

Meryl Streep

Speaking of her peers who got plastic surgery, the 73-year-old actress noted, “When I see it in people I meet, it’s like an interruption in communication with them.” She added that for an actor, it’s ’’like wearing a veil — it’s not a good thing."

Streep also believes that aging is a gift that should be welcomed with open arms. Speaking on how many people in the industry have gone down the road of plastic surgery, she said, ’’I just don’t get it. You have to embrace getting older."

Julia Roberts

The famous actress and producer refuses to have plastic surgery. “It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older people,” Roberts said. “Your face tells a story...and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”

Jodie Foster

The actress, who’s been in the industry from a very young age, has always been against plastic surgery. And it seems that her opinion remains unchanged as she is aging. When asked whether she ever considers doing anything about her crow’s feet, Foster noted, “It’s not my thing.” But she also added, “I don’t have anything against it for other people.”

Also, when speaking about her distinctive nose, Foster explained, “I’d rather have somebody go, ’Wow, that girl has a bad nose,’ than ’Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.’”

Drew Barrymore

Even though the 47-year-old actress has been in the spotlight for decades, she always resisted the urge to get work done. She noted, “I’ve never messed with my face.” She explained further, “I don’t want to fight nature.”

She added, “I’m raising 2 daughters, and we were raised in an industry where it was desired to drink off the fountain of youth, and I just never subscribed to it.” Barrymore shared, “We’re going to age, things are going to go south, and it’s okay, it’s a part of life.”

Barbra Streisand

The 80-year-old icon has kept her trademark nose and never succumbed to the pressures of having it altered. However, she admitted that she would’ve gone under the knife at a young age if she was certain that she’d get pleasing results. Streisand explained, “I didn’t trust anyone enough to fix it. If I could do it myself with a mirror, I would straighten my nose.”

But later on, the singer started to accept her unique nose, and even credits her major success to it. In fact, she believes that her deviated septum is what makes her voice so special and even confessed, “If I ever had my nose fixed, it would ruin my career.”

Streisand has grown to love each one of her unique features and takes pride in having kept her natural traits. She once explained, “I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.”

Do you agree with these famous women’s views on plastic surgery? Do you believe that we shouldn’t alter our unique features, even if they don’t match the current ideals of beauty?