Do you guys think Charlize Theron has had any work done? I don’t think she’s had much of anything done recently, but there was a stage, around ten years ago, where I was convinced that she had something minor done to her face. Nothing aggressive, nothing that read “who IS that?” It might have just been a brief experimentation with Botox, now that I think about it. Anyway, Charlize is currently promoting her 19-year relationship with Dior, and she spoke to Allure about the longevity of the collaboration. She’s been the face of J’Adore for nearly two decades, and Dior is giving her a reinvented perfume to rep: L’Or de J’Adore. Some highlights from Allure:
Two decades with Dior: “I’m incredibly grateful for it and I’m really proud of it. It has become somewhat woven into the fabric of my life for the last 20 years, which kind of makes it special.”
She’s aging like everybody else: “My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging,” she says. But “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.’”
Double standards. “I’ve always had issues with the fact that men kind of age like fine wines and women like cut flowers. I despise that concept and I want to fight against it, but I also think women want to age in a way that feels right to them. I think we need to be a little bit more empathetic to how we all go through our journey. My journey of having to see my face on a billboard is quite funny now.”
She’ll never do a big physical transformation for a role again: “I will never, ever do a movie again and say, ‘Yeah, I’ll gain 40 pounds.’ I will never do it again because you can’t take it off. When I was 27, I did Monster. I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I missed three meals and I was back to my normal weight. Then I did it at 43 for Tully, and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, ‘I think I’m dying because I cannot lose this weight.’ And he was like, ‘You’re over 40. Calm down. Your metabolism is not what it was.’ Nobody wants to hear that.”
Stunt work is harder now too: “The thing that really bums me out is that I make action movies now and if I hurt myself, I take way longer to heal than I did in my 20s. More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow. Now, if I don’t work out for three days and I go back to the gym, I can’t walk. I can’t sit down on the toilet. It’s all those very real moments.”
Charlize’s daughters: My daughters “have no concept of what age is like,” she says. “They see somebody, they like what they’re wearing, or they think they’re pretty and they don’t really know if she’s in her 20s or she’s in her 60s. It’s so great. I love that. I wish we could just maintain that.”
“Now, if I don’t work out for three days and I go back to the gym, I can’t walk. I can’t sit down on the toilet.” Super-real. Not only does it take you 40-something body longer to heal, you pick up mystery injuries and every week is a new adventure of Why Does That Hurt, with a companion game of Should I See A Doctor Or Will This Go Away On Its Own. Anyway, I believe that she hasn’t had a facelift and I even believe that she hasn’t gotten an eye job. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s tried some non-surgical stuff though! She’s not abusing it though.
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Charlize Theron attends the ‘Fast X’ film premiere, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, at Colosseum in Rome, Italy, May 12, 2023. 12 May 2023,Image: 775590774, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon 
Charlize Theron attends the ‘Fast X’ film premiere, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, at Colosseum in Rome, Italy, May 12, 2023. 12 May 2023,Image: 775591433, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon 
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