Just last fall my boyfriend and I watched the classic TV series Twin Peaks from start to finish. It’s fantastic, imaginative and dark. It stars a handful of actors and actresses that later saw varying degrees of fame, not the least of which being the very beautiful Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna. In real life she’s been a favorite of the tabloids for a long time for her stick-thinness and her frequent bouts with Botox, but recent photos show something very different. Is it the work of more plastic surgery, or something worse? Take a look.
This makes me so sad. If this is just plastic surgery gone wrong, what makes such a beautiful woman do this to herself? Seeing her makes me want to cut up all of Lindsay Lohan‘s credit cards before she takes them to the surgeon’s office for more work. Ten years ago Boyle expressed anxiety about getting older:
I know I may be running out of time. There are just not that many roles for older women.
Surely, though, the Men In Black II star didn’t have this in mind. Some sources point to possible steroid use for a medical condition — either way we hope she gets better. You can look through her transformation in the gallery, and feel free to tell us:
If this is just plastic surgery, what causes a woman to voluntarily undergo such excessive procedures? Do you think this is the work of something else, something medical?
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honestly, posts like this one. posts from winners like perez hilton. knowing that men in hollywood can be as fat, old, and ugly as they want, if they are talented, they are recognized for their talent. if you are a woman, you have to have it all, you have to be beautiful, have the perfect body, and the talent to carry yourself. when your beauty fades, your value as a female fades. there is always someone younger, prettier, and just as talented as you are. there aren’t many leading roles for women that aren’t in comedies that don’t call for the leading lady to be perfect in every way.
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She looks like she had a stroke.
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Gross. Plastic surgery should be outlawed unless actually medically necessary.
sunflower / 321 posts
@Erika_Steele@xanga - I dunno, I mean we would never post something that unsympathetically bashed on a woman for getting older. Everyone ages, and a post like this is meant to discourage the distorted value system of needing to stay young forever. I hope it doesn’t come across as endorsing that sort of warped standard of beauty.
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I feel really bad for her
“Running out of time”…honestly, it’s a tragedy that talented women with successful careers have to look at where they are in life and think “I’m getting old and running out of time” instead of “Look at what I’ve accomplished, I’m pretty awesome.” Sad. Of course that was 10 years ago, maybe she feels differently now, but it’s very hard to say.
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When are people going to realize that getting plastic surgery doesn’t always make you look younger? Sometimes it just makes you look like you just got plastic surgery, which somehow to me is completely unattractive, and actually makes you look older.
Looking at these pictures of Lara Flynn Boyle, I can actually see when she started to get her lips done, because they look more and more fake, starting with picture number 5. If she would have just left it all alone and natural, she might actually still be gorgeous and looking her own age instead of looking deformed and 65 years old. At least that’s how I see it.
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@kackie - it’s the title. it’s the fact that every time a celebrity, especially a female celebrity, is caught at a bad angle on a bad day, it starts crazy rumors. I am guilty of it as well, but I am trying to be better about it (and stick to fashion bashing). Even without blogs dealing with appearance, older females rarely get interesting roles. The fact is, we don’t know that her face looks like this from plastic surgery. She could be on medications that make her face look puffy. Her lips look like they have filler in them, but her face looks likes it is puffy from prednisone to me (it’s just too saggy to be fillers). Either way, she isn’t saying.
sunflower / 321 posts
@Erika_Steele@xanga - You make a very valid point. I wondered if it was something medical but nothing confirmed it. Either way you’re right, we shouldn’t just assume it’s her own doing. Thanks, as always, for your input!
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She looks like she got punched in the face.
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i love twin peaks so, so much.
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the last would look fine to me too, without the lips. I think her slightly puffier face could be natural. In the last it actually looks more like the face shape she had in the very first. But that’s not what what bothers me, it just looks as if something went wrong with her lips. very wrong.
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Julianne Moore. Judi Dench. Meryl Streep. Cate Blanchett. Annette Benning. Allison Janney. Kathy Bates. Helen Mirren. Anjelica Huston. Tilda Swinton. Sarah Jessica Parker. Madonna. Ellen DeGeneres. Oprah. Marisa Tomei. Mariska Hargitay.
No roles in Hollywood for older women? Please.
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So sad, because she was beautiful without all the botox and other junk.
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yikes.
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She has what is called the humpty dumpty syndrome. A tall tale sign of steroids. I hope she is ok.