Owen Wilson

[lae]

Dec 30, 2019 14:15:49 GMT -4 prisma said:

Dec 30, 2019 13:16:54 GMT -4 lae said:

This. The double standard is amazing to me.

And if he didn't want to get stuck with a lifetime connection to a girlfriend he wasn't serious about, he could have taken responsibility for birth control. I don't know why men get a free pass on that one. Owen seems like he would have been a great candidate for a vasectomy. It's a relatively simple procedure.

I would think so too. Unless he wants/wanted to keep his options open. It will be interesting (and awful if so) to see if he has more kids.

[lpatrice]

Dec 30, 2019 10:54:23 GMT -4 Ginger said:

I'm sorry to hear that, lae. Everyone's personal experiences really color how they view this.

May 29, 2005 13:06:38 GMT -4 lpatrice said:

I am currently mentoring someone who is dealing with the trauma of having her dad in and out of her life like a revolving door. The constant disappointment, the ups, and downs, etc - sometimes its almost better for a parent that doesn't want to parent to provide financial support and just stay the fuck away.

I find it interesting that so many people posit this as an either/or - be a bad parent or just stay away. There is also a third option: Parent doesn't want to parent, but steps up and puts in the effort to do a reasonably good job at it anyway. As Owen is a parent to another child, it doesn't seem like he's incapable of it.

This only works in an ideal world. But we inhibit the real world. And yeah it would be great if every parent both male and female stepped up to the plate and parented their children but people aren’t always capable of doing that or they just don’t want to - I also work with abused kids and both men and women do absolutely shitty and atrocious things to kids whose lives they don’t care about and are forced to be a part of. So yeah from real world experience it is sometimes better for parents to stay away. Kids are also smart, they can tell when mom or dad only comes around because they have too - and they pick up on the disinterest and apathy as most people aren’t that good at pretending.

Sadly, a small number of people have always made the choice to abandon their kids for as long as people have been having kids. It’s not new. Try as we might at the end of the day you can’t force someone (other than financially through the courts) to take responsibility, want to parent, or be a good parent.

[Mutagen]

I definitely don't think he should be forced to interact with his daughter. I think what irritates me is that he had so many resources to avoid this if he wanted to. This isn't a working shmoe who has to choose between paying the electric bill or paying for a vasectomy, you know? And he has two other kids with two other women already so it's not like the reality of having a kid should be a surprise to him anymore. There are worse choices he could be making, but there are also a lot better choices he could be making here too IMO.

[prisma]

Deluxe Moi just posted an item that Owen is bald and wears a wig, which is why his hairstyle never changes. I just did a Google image search and his hairstyle has indeed been consistent for years.

[Ladybug]

Apr 30, 2021 0:18:35 GMT -4 prisma said:

Deluxe Moi just posted an item that Owen is bald and wears a wig, which is why his hairstyle never changes. I just did a Google image search and his hairstyle has indeed been consistent for years.

Apparently Deux Moi is getting deluged with people defending Owen and claiming his hair is real. I don't know what to think. What a weird rumor.

[Ginger]

This story led me to a datalounge thread on all of the men in Hollywood who supposedly wear hairpieces or have had hair transplants. I didn't know about Joel McHale, but there are befores and afters from his early projects and he definitely had a transplant. (And it looks surprisingly good!)

I can believe that Owen Wilson's hair is a wig. That long shag cut that he *always* has and never changes conveniently hides his hairline.

[prisma]

Yeah, I tend to believe it because of that shag style to which he is wedded. I never thought anything of it before, but the shag makes sense if you're trying to disguise the hairline. Otherwise, it seems like that style would bet old.

Keith Urban is another one with a really dated hairstyle that never changes. I would love it if someone could poke around his scalp and report back to the celebrity-following public.

[scarlet]

Hmmm, I don't know. I can believe that style is 'wig friendly,' but I'm googling and see pics of him coming out of the ocean and that sure looks like his hair. He's got a tad of a receding hairline, which makes a bangs forward style the best, but is it really a wig?

[seat6]

Apr 30, 2021 10:57:52 GMT -4 prisma said:

Keith Urban is another one with a really dated hairstyle that never changes. I would love it if someone could poke around his scalp and report back to the celebrity-following public.

I have been backstage at a Keith Urban concert and seen his hairdresser at work. I was astonished because she was flitting around him making all these fussy little changes that made no discernible difference in his appearance. The whole time he was standing in the wings, waiting to go on, having a conversation with the guitar tech. She was certainly treating his hair as if it were real and it did not occur to me that it was anything than his own hair. I think if he were wearing a wig it would not require so much effort.

This was one of those occasions when I was further convinced that being famous would be awful. I could not stand having someone hovering over me futzing like that when my hair already looks fine.

[Ginger]

Nicole conveniently posted a picture on instagram yesterday of Keith as a little boy and he's had that haircut since at least age 7 apparently. There's a theory that people who maintain dated hairstyles are trying to hang on to their glory days.