In a new story for The Cut, the naturally beautiful “Silver Linings Playbook” actress admitted she had a breast lift, does “baby Botox” and planned to have a facelift in the future.
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she → admit → future
There was also something striking in the images that accompanied the article.
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that → be → article
She looked like she had been run through a Kardashian filter.
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she → look → filter
Her lips appeared as plump as slugs, and her eyebrows had migrated an inch from their original home.
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eyebrows → appear → home
She looked very much the same in a recent “Call Her Daddy” interview.
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She → look → interview
“I want to be a sexy mom,” she told the magazine.
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she → want → magazine
“At drop-off, I want to look like a woman that has her s–t together even when I’ve just woken up and don’t have my s–t together.”
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I → want → t
Lawrence isn’t an over-the-hill actress clinging to her youth.
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Lawrence → cling → youth
And she isn’t some desperate striver who believes that if only her lips were larger, her brows higher or buccal fat vacuumed, she’d finally catch that big break.
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she → believe → break
Lawrence has an Academy Award and the general goodwill from the industry and public thanks to her talent and quirky personality.
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Lawrence → have → talent
She has always embraced her relatable flaws, even famously tripping on her way to accept the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2013.
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She → embrace → 2013
These interventions aren’t really about fighting Father Time.
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interventions → fight → Time
It’s about fighting genetics and changing the features that make her unique and come alive on screen.
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her → ’ → screen
Her transformation and candor about a future new face only underscores what has been happening in our culture.
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what → underscore → culture
We are sadly losing touch with how a normal human face is meant to look.
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face → lose → touch
Watch a movie from a decade or so ago and actors and actresses actually have real teeth and faces with character and slight imperfections.
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actors → watch → character
Now it’s all chicklet veneers, tiny noses out of the same doctor catalog and lips that scream, “I bought these.
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I → ’ → these
Of course Lawrence isn’t the only member of youngish Hollywood tweaking their looks.
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Lawrence → tweak → looks
Emma Stone is starting to look less sharp and more sanded down.
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Stone → start → ?
Anne Hathaway’s cheeks are taut as ever, and Kristen Bell’s face is pulled tighter than a West Point Cadet’s bedsheet.
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face → pull → bedsheet
If Lawrence thinks she needs to alter her natural appearance, what does that mean for the average insecure young girl growing up in today’s world with social media reinforcing their need to look and sound a certain way?
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media → think → need
Their feeds are filled with influencers and reality stars who all have a derivative face.
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who → fill → face
I see the result of nips, tucks and injections on regular young women walking around New York City.
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And in the suburbs it’s not uncommon to see ladies with ridiculously fake lips and brows so high one prays they are currently suing their doctor for malpractice.
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they → ’ → malpractice
Thanks to the wide availability of procedures and injections, we’ve become far too casual about plastic surgery.
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we → become → surgery
Females have been convinced they need to begin a regimen of preventative Botox in their early 20s.
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they → convince → 20s
Once that starts, it loosens inhibitions to try other things on the menu.
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it → start → menu
Hey, let’s do a filler here, a lip plumper there.
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’s → let → filler
Any insecurity can be fixed, softened or erased completely for a price.
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insecurity → fix → price
It’s sadly become so normalized.
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It → become → ?
A few decades ago, the cultural messaging emphasized learning to love the face you’ve been given, which builds character and resilience.
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which → emphasize → character
It’s also true that plastic surgery was more expensive, more invasive and less accessible back then.
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surgery → ’ → ?
Now with many advancements it’s much easier to fix the face you’ve been given, so you can then love it.
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you → ’ → it
It’s pretty dark.
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It → ’ → ?
But just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you should.
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you → do → it
Will modifying your features really lead to self-love?
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modifying → modify → love
Usually it just leads to fixating on the next “imperfection.”
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it → lead → imperfection
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