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Kim Zolciak Details How Her Beauty Obsession Impacted Her Daughters
Laura Dern has no problem calling out big and little lies about today’s beauty standards.
While discussing her experience in Hollywood over the years, the 58-year-old actress detailed how the industry’s perception of beauty has changed—and not necessarily for the better.
“Lately, I have never seen more shame around aging and women as public figures, and it’s just so tragic,” Laura told The Independent in an interview published Jan. 31. “It’s so much worse now than for my mother’s generation.”
The Jurassic Park star—who is the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and the late Diane Ladd—recalled specific conversations that her mom had during her childhood that ultimately stuck with her.
“I remember, when I was a child,” Laura shared, “hearing her friends talk about the pressure at 70 to get a facelift if you wanted to keep working.”
Nowadays, the mom of two—she shares daughter Jaya, 21, and son Ellery, 24, with ex-husband Ben Harper—noted that the pressure is felt by women decades earlier.
“Now I’m hearing my 21-year-old daughter’s friends say, ‘You should get Botox now so that you’re never wrinkled,’” she said. “It’s tragic! So the idea that we’re advancing in empowerment is bats--t.”
The Big Little Lies actress continued, “And these are societal norms that have been created, most of the time, from people’s fears and insecurities. And it’s all consumerism, right? It’s like the tobacco industry saying smoking looks cool. Look at the Marlboro Man! They’re just making money. They’re saying we’ll have a whole generation of girls buying our products if we say it’s ‘preventative’. But we’re supposed to be the ones to not buy into it, right?”
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While Laura acknowledged that she can’t necessarily change the way beauty is advertised to women, she vowed to do her part in keeping the narrative honest.
“I look forward to watching all of us grow together into comfort in our own skin,” she said. “And, as artists, for us to grow into portraying those truths, whether that’s the insecurity about it, or the rage about it, or—hopefully—the acceptance, too.”
Laura isn’t the only star who is an advocate for natural beauty. Keep reading for more stars who have denied or spoken out against cosmetic procedures.
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Sydney Sweeney
The Euphoria actress confirmed in December 2025 that she hasn't had a boob job.
As costar Amanda Seyfried told her during Vanity Fair's Lie Detector Test, “There’s been a question on everybody’s minds recently, and I just have to ask, are your boobs real?”
“Yes,” Sydney responded. “I’ve never gotten any work done anywhere.”
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Kimora Lee Simmons
She shared in December 2025 that she's never gotten filler.
“As you are going along in your journey, I don’t think that you should overdo it with surgery, filler, Botox,” she told People. “You don’t need to do too much. Take it easy. Less is always better."
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Alabama Barker
Travis Barker and ex Shanna Moakler's daughter has been open about her use of lip fillers but denies having cosmetic surgery.
In February 2024, she shared photos of herself wearing a bikini on Instagram, to which a user commented, "This child has done alot of cosmetic surgery @ a very young age, I hope she doesn't over do it! She looks good now!"
The rapper responded, "I really appreciate the love! I'm natural, besides my lips, accept the fact I'm naturally beautiful."
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Kristen Stewart
The Twilight alum told Harper's Bazaar U.K. in 2015 she will "never" get plastic surgery, adding, "I am so freaked out by the idea of doing anything. And maybe that's completely arrogant but I don't want to change anything about myself. I think the women who do are losing their minds. It's vandalism."
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Meryl Streep
The Devil Wears Prada star told Good Housekeeping in 2008. "You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift."
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Drake
The "God's Plan" rapper shut down rumors in September 2025 that he had plastic surgery to make his abs more defined, explaining the fan speculation was a result of using a photo editing app.
"I came from the gym, I was sweaty in that pic," he said during an episode of Bobbi Althoff’s Not This Again podcast. "Maybe I heightened the saturation or something on it."
He added, "I think I hit it too hard. They don't look like that."
While Drake noted that people go under the knife "all the time," he isn’t one of them.
"People also say that I got a BBL," he continued, referencing the popular Brazilian Butt Lift procedure. "They call me 'BBL Drizzy.'"
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Paulina Porizkova
The supermodel opened up about why she's all about embracing her skin at every age.
"This is a 58 year old face without fillers, Botox or surgery in good light with professional gorgeous makeup," she wrote in an August 2023 Instagram caption. "I have chosen not to put anything 'into' my face."
She continued, "Some days, I like it. I feel like my face has gained character even as it's lost its youthful prettiness. And it seems a fair trade off."
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Charlize Theron
The Oscar winner revealed whether or not she's gotten plastic surgery.
"My face is changing," she told Allure in an interview published August 2023, "and I love that my face is changing and aging. People think I had a facelift. They're like, 'What did she do to her face?' I'm like, 'Bitch, I'm just aging! It doesn't mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.'"
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Elizabeth Banks
The Pitch Perfect alum admitted she's never gotten any cosmetic injectables, telling People in 2023, "I've never put a needle in my face. And by the way, most people do it and truly, there's no judgement. But I make my living with my face."
She added, "Basically I'm terrified of f--king it up."
Salma Hayek
The Magic Mike actress set the record straight on whether or not she's gotten facial injectables. "No Botox!" she put it bluntly on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast.
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Lana Del Rey
The "Summertime Sadness" singer denied having a surgical procedure on her nose after a fan referenced her "natural nose."
“Still never even been under the knife or anesthesia in my life for the 15th year in a row!!” Lana wrote on Instagram in September 2025, per a screenshot captured by People. “But if u use filler like [my doctor] used to- to build up the bridge of your nose it looks tall no bump. Takes seven minutes.”
The nonsurgical rhinoplasty Lana referred is “a cosmetic procedure where dermal fillers are used to temporarily change the shape of your nose,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. Though the procedure is less invasive, the results only last up to six months.
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Linda Evangelista
In 2021, the supermodel, who rose to fame in the '90s as one of the first, sued Zeltiq Aesthetics, alleging that its CoolScupting fat-reducing procedures that she underwent in 2015 and 2016 left her "permanently disfigured." The parties reached a settlement in the case in 2022.
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Emily Ratajkowski
In January 2021, while pregnant, the model wrote on her Instagram Story in response to fans' questions: "For anyone saying 'you need to stop w/ the lip injections': I've never had lip injections (no judging folks who do—ya'll look great!) but you can't even get injections when you're pregnant!"
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Jennifer Lopez
Jenny from the Block continues to look like Jenny from the Block. In January 2021, she told an Instagram user, "I have never done Botox or any other injectables or surgery!! Just sayin'."
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Jennifer Aniston
The Friends actress did have a nose job when she was younger to fix a deviated septum, but has spoke out against Botox and other facial fillers.
"There is also this pressure in Hollywood to be ageless," she told Yahoo! Beauty in 2014. "I think what I have been witness to, is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves. I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s--t into my face."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I've probably tried everything. I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy," the actress told Harper's Bazaar in 2013.
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Drew Barrymore
The Charlie's Angels alum told InStyle magazine in 2012, "I say, don't fight the rings on the trunk of a tree. Just keep counting 'em."
"The idea of not looking like myself scares me," she added.
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Emma Thompson
The Love Actually actress told The Telegraph in 2011, "I'm not fiddling about with myself. We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60."
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Jodie Foster
"Nah. It's not my thing," the Oscar winner told MORE magazine in 2007. "I don't have anything against it for other people. Whatever they want to do, I'm fine with it. For me, it's really a self-image thing. Like, I'd rather have somebody go, "Wow, that girl has a big nose" than 'Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.' I'd rather have a comment about who I am than about something that identifies me as being ashamed of who I am."
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Lady Gaga
In 2011, the pop star told Harper's Bazaar, "I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification."
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Kate Winslet
In 2011, the Titanic star told the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph that cosmetic surgery goes against her morals, the way her parents brought her up and what she considers to be "natural beauty."
"I will never give in," she added. "I am an actress, I don't want to freeze the expression of my face."
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