Julia Roberts Remains Critical Of Plastic Surgery, Preferring To Age Naturally
Being in Hollywood for over 30 years, the star says she’s staying true to herself, which includes staying away from cosmetic procedures. As she puts it, “your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office:”
Julia Roberts has been one of the top leading ladies in Hollywood since she starred in the 1990 film “Pretty Woman,” which is still the role she is most remembered for. The star has received numerous accolades for her acting, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globes. When counting all of her movies, Roberts’ films have brought in a box office gross of over $3.8 billion globally. It’s fair to say that she can be considered one of the international greats of acting and a movie icon of the modern age.
Roberts was born October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta. She is the daughter of Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts, who passed away from cancer in 1977 when Roberts was 10.
Roberts won her Academy Award for her titular role in the film “Erin Brockovich” in 2000. Some of her other popular films include “Steel Magnolias,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” and “Ocean’s Eleven.” She has also been voted the most beautiful woman in the world five times by People magazine. Despite being one of the most famous people in the world, the actress has stayed true to her natural beauty.
In 2010 Roberts was Elle Magazine’s cover girl when she said:
“It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates. I want my kids to know when I’m pissed, when I’m happy, and when I’m confounded. Your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”
The actress and beauty brand ambassador has been in the business for over 30 years, and she says she’s not letting Hollywood pressure her.
“By Hollywood standards, I guess I’ve already taken a big risk in not having had a facelift,” she said. “But I’ve told Lancome that I want to be an aging model – so they have to keep me for at least five more years until I’m over 50,” Roberts said.
In 2010 Roberts was named the face of Lancome’s luxury beauty brand and signed a $50 million dollar deal. But not even all of that money could sway one of the world’s most well-known actresses to go under the knife for her face.
“Haven’t you ever picked up a picture of yourself from, like, five years ago, and you look at yourself and you just go, ‘And I had no appreciation for how lovely I looked, how fit and healthy I looked.’ So now I say, ‘Now listen. Ten years from now, you’re really going to think you should have appreciated yourself more,'” Roberts said.
Roberts has it all, some might say. From the endless hits on the big screen to landing mega beauty deals- Roberts has a lot going on. When she landed the impressive Lancome deal, she admitted, “It’s kind of like every girl’s dream, really. To be 42 and have three kids and be a working mom, it’s a great moment to be asked to do this and to be able to do it.”
Besides working these days, Roberts is also a mother of three. She has said that her husband and her children make up her universe.
She told Elle, “The children became the shooting stars of him, of that thing we have. How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.”
In an interview with People in 2020, Roberts said she now runs the show at her house.
“I get everybody out the door to school on time, clean, fed, happy. That’s directing a whole production right there.”
Throughout most of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, Roberts was the highest-paid actress in the world. In 2003 she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for starring in the film “Mona Lisa Smile.” As of 2020, her net worth is an estimated $250 million.
She told the New York Times in 2022 that,
“I decided a while ago that I’ll never really understand what people think about me and I don’t need to. I also feel like I’m a neutral person. I’m not one of those polarizing personalities — I don’t think. I don’t know. Because my job is so perfectly positioned in the priorities of my life, I’m not investing time in understanding the relationship between who I am and who people might perceive me to be.”
