Renee Zellweger

[Foo]

I feel bad for her. To change your face to where you are virtually unrecognizable... I feel that many Hwood actresses go under the knife to "enhance" their looks or make their face look "younger," but not to completely change their face entirely.

I don't know how many of you have seen the TV show Hung, but I thought she was Horny Patty from the show, not Renee Zellweger, Oscar-winner. For those of you who are saying she doesn't look very different from her "before" pictures, all I can say is: really?

This article also encapsulates my feelings on this: Why Renée Zellweger's Face Matters

[prisma]

Enty revealed a blind item today that's about Renee Zellweger. If it's true (and it's Enty, so who knows) it would explain why she hasn't been in anything in a while:

She calls it stage fright. There is some of that to be sure because she can freeze in front of a camera. It is one reason she hates doing awards shows or anything requiring her to read a teleprompter. She is surprisingly enough ok on talk shows because she is not required to say anything, she only has to respond. Getting her to the talk show is an entirely different matter. It takes her hours. Once she finally gets there and gets inside she can fake it enough and use enough mind tricks to make it through the ordeal, but when she leaves, she becomes a sweaty, exhausted mess and drinks herself to sleep. She is an actress. She used to be A+ list. Rarefied air that she had. Academy Award winner/nominee. For a time, she was the number one choice for almost every movie role available. She could still be that choice and she still has A list name recognition, but she has suffered the past five or six years with actually leaving her own house. It is rare she can manage and when she does it is usually with her boyfriend by her side. She prefers to be alone with him, or just alone is fine with her too. She has an assistant to go shopping for her and do the day to day things so she doesn't have to leave the house. Meetings with her manager or agents or anyone else is by phone or they come to her place. She has dated some of the biggest names in Hollywood. All this used to be managed more effectively. There is talk that her boyfriend likes to have her under his control and maybe had made things worse for his benefit. One thing that has surfaced is that she has a tough time filming anything because of the crowds and the stage fright. She has finally been convinced to give it another try, but it might fizzle like her last two projects when she couldn't even make it to the set.

Renee Zellweger

[kostgard]

I can buy that the BI is true (though I hope the bit about the boyfriend isn't true).

She's always seemed a bit fragile and the puffy face, poor skin and hair condition she had for several years pointed to bad nutrition/too much exercise/possible self-medicating with booze. It always amazed me that her hair and skin looked so bad when she had access to the best hair/makeup/skin people in Hollywood and always made me think something was wrong. I actually thought she looked great with the Bridget Jones weight - she looked healthier. Probably because she had to eat and lay off the exercise.

And remember when she married Kenny Chesney out of the blue and then had it annulled a few months later? That was weird.

If she had the issues in the BI, I'm glad they are under enough control that she can step out in public again. I do wish though that she hadn't released that statement to people. The comments like the ones I'm making don't really deserve a response from her. And just... no. People know the statement is false. You may be relaxed and that's great, but you also got your eyelids done. If you don't want to 'fess up to it, don't say anything at all. This won't make people back off - ask Nicole Kidman how people reacted when she stated in an interview that her face was 100% natural.

[Ladybug]

Maybe the BI was from the Bradley Cooper era. He has a rep for being a jerk with girlfriends. I hope Renee's current bf is treating her right.

[wilbert]

If that BI is her, then she has more courage than I ever will. To sit through a talk show feeling all anxious, I would have given up the first time I had to be that public.

[HotLips]

Oct 22, 2014 15:29:11 GMT -4 Foo said:

I don't know how many of you have seen the TV show Hung, but I thought she was Horny Patty from the show, not Renee Zellweger, Oscar-winner. For those of you who are saying she doesn't look very different from her "before" pictures, all I can say is: really?

OMG, that's Doris from Looking and YES Renee totally looks like her now. Renee probably could have used a bestie like Doris to tell her not to fuck up her face (or at least hire a decent surgeon).

This is reminding me of way back when Jennifer Grey had that massive nose job and no one recognized her anymore. I doubt this is going to help Renee's career. She doesn't even look like herself. It would be like starting over as an unknown.

[minky]

Oct 23, 2014 0:25:32 GMT -4 HotLips said:

She has such a distinctive voice though.

[lea1977]

All this coverage in the media, it just reminder about how much looks plays into a career of an actress, many of them don't have much time. What a crappy business to be in when you think of it. For someone like Jeremy Renner, his career started at nearly 40.

[aibohphobia]

Oct 23, 2014 5:17:25 GMT -4 lea1977 said:

All this coverage in the media, it just reminder about how much looks plays into a career of an actress, many of them don't have much time. What a crappy business to be in when you think of it. For someone like Jeremy Renner, his career started at nearly 40.

Yes, I can't blame Jessica Chastain at all for lying about her age when she first came on the scene or all the other actresses who shave a few years off. I also hope that she continues to be A-List and gets all those nominations and awards not only because I love her as an actress, but I also hope to see more actresses be able to become A List at a later age.

[americanchai]

Brit actresses seem able to go on and on if they stay in Britain. The whole aging thing seems to be a very Hollywood problem. Renee might have to go to TV. I'm not a fan of hers at all, BTW, but she's one of the most versatile of what I consider a somewhat weak generation of actresses.