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Julia Roberts' face...


I saw Julia's face in this movie and thought :"Wow, what the hell happened to her...is she sick or just very very on drugs?? The difference is amazing, or scary, actually.
I always liked her and thought she was quite pretty, maybe even because of her peculiar face..
But she looks amazingly gaunt and worn out; in spite of the clearly pancaked make up...she isnt that old and I can remember that her mouth looked different from the one she has now...Anyone know? It may be that she has had plastic surgery gone wrong...

Not wanting to dis her in any way, but something is definitely the matter with her...

I am usually one of the alst people to judge someone by hre looks, but this goes beyond looks; I am concerned...


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I totally agree with you. I have always loved her in darn near everything she has done....but I too was distracted by her looks in this. She seemed much older. My first thought was perhaps she is not going the route of Botox and all the other cosmetic surgeries most Hollywood stars do. She still is pretty though and a fabulous actor no matter how bad the script is.

I do not suspect drugs with her. I don't know her personally but just from the little bit I do catch on the Gossip shows, she just never seemed the type to abuse drugs.

Perhaps this character/role was needed for a mature woman.

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i was ok with her face...until at the end when they found out they were played..i was like wtf is with her face.

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It was probably just the makeup and the way she was lit, but her blank face in that final scene made me think of Odo the Shapeshifter from Deep Space Nine.

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No we're just so used to seeing her face that it looks odd to you now that it's aging. This is exactly why it's hard for most women to have long careers in hollywood. The men can get fat, and bald, and wrinkly and still have careers as action stars even and you won't see as many threads like this.



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I'm sorry, I dont think so; I belive she isnt just aging; her mouth looks bigger and her eyes are hollow; thats not age I am seeing; probably had a tough time or something. But she reall had pancake make-up in some scenes; to cover up, while she didnt need to cover up in other scenes.

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Some people when they age their faces get a little gaunter looking. That's just part of the aging process for many people. It's only a shock to you people because it's Julia Roberts and we're so used to fresh faced Pretty Woman Julia. It's not as big a deal as some of you make out. Tom Hanks's face (and body) is changing more and more as he ages too but no one will make such a big deal because he's a man.




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Well, as a healer, I have to say she shows some signs that can definitely be related to other things besides age...I am sure we will see her in the future looking much less gaunt...thats my guess at least.
Just hope she didnt succumb to cocaine use, like 80% of Hollywood actors (I could name a lot, but dont want to trigger useless debates...I have worked with cocaine addicted people, the signs are all over Hollywood. Let's just say most extremely popular actors do it.)
And I am sure she has had something done to her lips quite recently.
Still love her acting tho! Liked the movie quite a lot.




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"as a healer"?
I hope you're kidding. Are you trying to claim some kind of authority by presenting yourself with a title so bogus you can't even get it from a box of cereals?

Anyway... as a flying tomato horse, I do agree. She did look a bit odd.

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Im sorry dude, if you think I claim to be an authority on anything...I might have saved you your clearly bigoted remark by just saying something like "In my experience..." I do not need any claim on authority...I can only lay claim on experience with healing people...which has nothing to do with authority...I guess for you the pill-pushing pharmaceutical-dealers which present themselves with bought titles like 'doctor' do meet your idea of 'authority'?
So, no, I am not kidding. People whom I have helped gave me the title healer...I'm sorry if your paradigm does not allow for these ideas...that's your narrow idea and your problem, to be honest.
I am a healer, even if you mock me for that...

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^This post is much more amusing if you read it like Jeff Lebowksi.

"I'm sorry if your, uh, paradigm, doesn't allow for these ideas, man. That's like, your narrow idea and your problem. People gave me the title healer, man (or healer-ino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing)."

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hahah flying tomato horse- now THATS a title!!!

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Sorry, but that's what aging looks like. She wants to be thin and when you age, your face gets gaunt. Faces get longer anyway as we age and Julia always had a longish face and a wide mouth. It's more exxagerrated now. She might look better with a few pounds on her. She'd still look older and mature. But this society is obsessed with being skinny and skinny doesn't look great on you after 40.

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That God-awful eye makeup on her didn't help either.

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Yeah she did look a bit strange. She doesn't seem to have any wrinkles or lines and her skin is barely sagging. She's quite pale. She's got big features.

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She aged.

It's been 22 years since Pretty Woman, people.

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I have never seen Pretty Woman...I last saw her in the movie before this one, or the one before that..Charlie Wilson's war...Thats two years ago at the most...she definitely had her lips done...

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She had just given birth, so I think that would explain it. She looks amazing now.


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Ahaa, that might account for the drawn and tired look...it's not a small thing to do the babyproduction. Thanks for the info, lola! :)

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