December 30th, 2008 at 11:55 am by
Anne
It’s funny how a lot of men feel this way. Courtney Cox’s husband feels this way. Yet then there is the pressure on women to always have to look good. If women get plastic surgery they are told how ridiculous they look. If they age naturally they are told how horrid they look. It’s hard to win, right?
Cate Blanchett’s husband clearly loves her for who she is and she goes on to say about plastic surgery:
“I haven’t done anything, but who knows. Andrew [Upton] said he’d divorce me if I did anything.”
“I’m not a spokesperson against the world of injectables,” The 39-year-old actress says. “If you grow up in an environment where your mother gets you a boob job when you turn 18, what hope is there? But I didn’t grow up in that world.
“The reason I went to train as an actor was that I was interested in it for the long haul,” she adds. “You can become very self-obsessed, but you’ve got to keep looking outward.”
She goes on to talk about the changes motherhood brings the body:
“When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history” “I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person….” she adds
She thinks sometimes plastic surgery won’t be enough:
“If you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes,” she says. “The windows to your soul, they say.” “I’m not a trophy. He likes the vessel, but he also wants to make sure the vessel is full.”
As for having more children:
“Who knows? Don’t close those doors. The world is very overpopulated, but we do make nice ones,” she says. “They all look like Andrew. To say he has dominant genes would be an understatement.”
Cate also has some retirement plans:
“I think I just want to garden — or kill some plants, in my case,” she says.
So let me ask the readers: does aging bother you? Would you consider having something done?
