Renée Zellweger has penned an open letter discussing tabloid culture, titled We Can Do Better, in which she discusses the plastic surgery speculation which she was faced with in 2014 after her appearance at the Women in Hollywood Awards...
"I am lucky," Renée began her letter published on the Huffington Post. "Choosing a creative life and having the opportunity to do satisfying work that is sometimes meaningful is a blessed existence and worth the price paid in the subsequent challenges of public life."
She went on to reference the article by Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman which compared her appearance now to that of her Bridget Jones character. She said: "I am not writing today because I have been publicly bullied or because the value of my work has been questioned by a critic whose ideal physical representation of a fictional character originated 16 years ago, over which he feels ownership, I no longer meet."
She continued: "I'm writing because to be fair to myself, I must make some claim on the truths of my life, and because witnessing the transmutation of tabloid fodder from speculation to truth is deeply troubling."
Renée then addressed the plastic surgery claims directly: "Not that it's anyone's business, but I did not make a decision to alter my face and have surgery on my eyes. This fact is of no true import to anyone at all, but that the possibility alone was discussed among respected journalists and became a public conversation is a disconcerting illustration of news/entertainment confusion and society's fixation on physicality."
You can read her full letter here.
Source: Huffington Post
Russell Brand - love him or hate him - has given his opinion about Renée Zellweger's "new look". Scroll down to watch his reaction to the media coverage after the movie star's appearance last week.
We've watched it, and Russ, we salute you!
If you're fed up of reading about Renée Zellweger's face, and the surgery shaming, and the omg-what-has-she-done-to-her-face-chat, you will definitely appreciate Russell's video.
Watch it here…
Yesterday, Renée Zellweger nearly broke the internet by stepping out at the Women in Hollywood Awards with people saying she had a "new face".
At the sight of her drastically changed appearance, Twitter was rife with comments like "Renée doesn't look like this anymore" and "what has she done?!", while others leapt to her defence and pointed out that this is what our insane expectation of what women should look like leads to - a lotta plastic surgery.
Now Renée has responded to the talk, telling People that she's happier than ever, and she's "thrilled" that people are noticing her appearance.
"I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows," the 45-year-old said.
She called the chatter about her appearance "silly", but said she was addressing it because "it seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth which doesn't exist won't get off my porch until I answer the door." "My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy," Renée continued. "For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn't allow for taking care of myself.
"Rather than stopping to recalibrate, I kept running until I was depleted and made bad choices about how to conceal the exhaustion. I was aware of the chaos and finally chose different things. "I did work that allows for being still, making a home, loving someone, learning new things, growing as a creative person and finally growing into myself," she added. https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/person/renee-zellweger
Renée also spoke of how she was becoming happier as she got older. "People don't know me in my 40s," she said. "People don't know me [as] healthy for a while. Perhaps I look different. Who doesn't as they get older?! Ha. But I am different. I'm happy."
Do you think it's disgraceful how much pressure we put on stars to always look "perfect", and that Renée shouldn't have dignified her critics with a response? Or do you think that by being an actress in the spotlight, it's just a necessary evil of the job for Renée? Let us know @GlamourMagUK.
