Hollywood is synonymous with unattainable magnificence requirements. Even essentially the most gorgeous actor you possibly can consider has in all probability been instructed that there is one thing about their look that must be “mounted.” Whereas some performers resolve to go beneath the knife in hopes of bettering their profession prospects, loads of others have flat-out refused.
Listed here are 19 actors who rejected recommendation to surgically change themselves for the trade:
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In 1995, Sandra Oh met with an LA agent who suggested her to consider beauty surgical procedure as a result of she wasn’t “fairly sufficient” to be a lead actor. In 2018, Sandra instructed Vulture, “It was the best way that she stated, ‘Hear: I am not going to mislead you. Lots of people are going to mislead you. However I’ve bought nothing for you right here. I’ve Suzy Kim’ — I am simply making up names — ‘she has an audition in like six months. There’s nothing for a 12 months. My finest recommendation for you is to return residence and get well-known.'”
“There’s lots of people in our neighborhood who can relate to this sense. I had already executed all I may do to get to that A degree, which is star in theater, TV, movie, and in some way, that wasn’t sufficient for somebody to say, ‘I imagine I can get you an audition.’ There’s like a darkish needle or a nail that lives behind all of our heads, and that is your concern. That is like, ‘It’s true. There’s nothing there. And he or she’s saying that she’s not going to mislead me. Different persons are going to mislead you, however she will not mislead you. She instructed the reality. Return.’ I used a pay cellphone to name [director Sturla Gunnarsson] and was not capable of cease crying. It simply minimize me on the knees.”
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Talking on the Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable in 2025, Dame Helen Mirren stated, “I used to be instructed to have a nostril job in my 20s… Somebody stated, ‘You will by no means get work if you do not have a nostril job.’ I stated no. I did not wish to be a reasonably actress anyway. I elected to be not so fairly.”
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In her 2021 memoir Unfinished, Priyanka Chopra Jonas recalled her first assembly with a director after successful Miss World 2000. She wrote, “After a couple of minutes of small discuss, the director/producer instructed me to face up and twirl for him. I did. He stared at me lengthy and arduous, assessing me, after which steered that I get a boob job, repair my jaw, and add somewhat extra cushioning to my butt. If I wished to be an actress, he stated, I would have to have my proportions ‘mounted,’ and he knew an important physician in LA he may ship me to. My then-manager voiced his settlement with the evaluation.”
She stated the encounter left her feeling “surprised and small.” Not lengthy after, she minimize ties with that supervisor.
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In a 2010 weblog submit, Hook actor Dante Basco wrote, “Someday I bear in mind I had this dialog with my then supervisor about the opportunity of me getting a nostril job! Yeah… a friggin nostril job! I do not know, perhaps I did not get a selected job, in all probability on account of how I regarded. See, rising up in Hollywood, there weren’t many Filipino actors, and there was completely no Filipino roles, so my jobs consisted of me taking part in something and every thing from any type of Latino to any type of Asian and even some Black or white roles for characters that they could not discover adequate Black or white youngsters. So this query of a nostril job arises… I will need to have solely been 14 and was significantly requested to provide it some robust thought…”
He continued, “A nostril job… To start with, it was the ’80s, and nostril jobs have been in. In fact, the supervisor [cited] folks like Michael Jackson who bought a nostril job and the way it helped his profession (at the very least that is what she stated). Even my then-acting instructor instructed me Elvis Presley had a nostril job early in his profession (nonetheless undecided if that is true). She even [offered] to arrange the appointment to the physician that did a pal of her’s nostril. As a youngster, it is a bizarre factor to consider… Hell, considering again on it now, it is somewhat bizarre. The factor about it’s, there have been a number of folks placing strain on me about getting this process executed, and never simply enterprise. I do know that there are specific folks in my household, one aunt for sure, that will’ve jumped at an opportunity to get their nostril ‘mounted.’ And it is a fairly large factor to go and alter the factor smack dab in the midst of your face…”
“….Now I am undecided if the precise appointment was set, however I do bear in mind realizing one thing… See, my administration and what I felt on the time, as ‘Hollywood,’ wished me to get my nostril ‘mounted’… ‘mounted,’ ‘modified’ … however ‘modified’ to what? I noticed they wished me to vary my nostril to look extra like a white individual’s nostril. See, I am Filipino, I am not a Latin actor or light-skinned Black actor, who perhaps if I simply modified somewhat factor, like my nostril… impulsively I can perhaps go for white,” he wrote.
“I simply figured it doesn’t matter what my nostril seems like, I am by no means going to have the ability to go for white, and all these ‘white’ roles are by no means going to open up for me, at the very least not in that approach, and in the end, that is not how I wished to play this recreation in Hollywood… I deliberate to make it one other approach. So I saved my nostril, my Filipino nostril… this ethnic nostril, anyway you take a look at it. This Basco nostril, the identical one that’s on my dad’s face, his brothers’ face, my cousins’, and my grandmother’s… & I succeeded on this city in any case,” he concluded.
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In 2025, Winona Ryder instructed Elle that, not too long ago, feminine administrators have been advising her to start out Botox. She stated, “They will say, ‘Simply chill out your brow. Loosen up.’ I am making an attempt to be an important actor, and so they’re saying that time and again. It is good that persons are speaking about the way it’s OK to age, however there’s nonetheless huge strain. Each function I get is for a mom, ? My profession has positively shifted.”
“So, I feel what I aspire to, lastly, is to play the decide who’s like, ‘Chambers now, counselor! Too far!'” she added.
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In 2023, Rosie Perez instructed Selection, “I do not need her [the agent she had around the time she did 21 Jump Street] to be canceled, however she instructed me that if I dyed my hair blonde and bought a nostril job, I ‘can get you extra jobs. Since you’re not Black.’ I could not imagine it. I used to be like, ‘Oh, my goodness. Like, thanks, fired.'”
After sacking her agent, Rosie “had no one” and “had no cash.” Nonetheless, she discovered an ally in her Felony Justice costar Jennifer Gray, who’d been pressured right into a nostril job that broken her profession. Rosie stated, “Jennifer and I clicked immediately. I have never seen that lady in ages, however I simply suppose she’s phenomenal. She’s like, ‘I can’t imagine how racist this trade is.’ She picks up the cellphone and calls Jane Berliner at CAA and says, ‘It is advisable characterize this actress.'”
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Whereas Kirsten Dunst was taking pictures Spider-Man, a producer whisked her off to the dentist to have her smile straightened. She had no thought the appointment had been made. In 2024, she instructed GQ, “I used to be like, ‘No, I like my tooth.'”
She later felt inspired by The Virgin Suicides director Sofia Coppola, who “liked” her tooth. Kirsten stated, “I did not notice on the time. I noticed it [later] in choices I had made. To not change tooth, to not blow up my lips, or no matter it’s that everybody desires to appear like. I nonetheless know to this present day, I am not gonna screw up my face and appear like a freak. You realize what I imply? I would relatively get previous and do good roles.”
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On the 2017 Ladies in Movie Los Angeles’ Crystal + Lucy Awards, Elizabeth Banks stated, “The primary agent I ever met on this trade instructed me to get a boob job. I used to be so grateful that I did not manage to pay for on the time to comply with his recommendation. I additionally didn’t signal with him regardless of that.”
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Talking on a panel on the 2024 Comedian-Con Worldwide, The Boys actor Claudia Doumit stated, “It is a gorgeous half-Lebanese, half-Italian nostril. It’s very robust. And it was simply sort of that, like, to get a nostril job, after which I would e-book roles that have been, , the ingenue and fairly and the main actress. And that was fed to me for a lot of, a few years. And I bear in mind, ever since a younger age, I assumed to myself, ‘After I e-book my first job, I am gonna get a nostril job. I am gonna get the pay for that and get a nostril job.’ After which I booked my first job, and I did not get a nostril job.”
She continued, “I did not get a nostril job, after which I booked the subsequent job. And I assumed, ‘I am going to get it now.’ And I did not get a nostril job. After which I saved reserving jobs and never getting nostril jobs. And I sort of realized sooner or later that I used to be reserving jobs with the best way that I regarded, and I assumed, ‘Oh, I do not want a nostril job as a result of I am reserving jobs. I am doing the factor I really like, and I am doing it the best way I look.’ And it is not what the standard narrative is. It isn’t what lots of people may suppose magnificence is. However I feel it is lovely, and I feel I wanna see extra massive noses on ladies on the display. So, go, child.”
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In 2014, Julia Roberts instructed You journal, “By Hollywood requirements, I assume I’ve already taken a giant threat in not having had a facelift. However I’ve instructed Lancome that I wish to be an getting old mannequin – so that they need to maintain me for at the very least 5 extra years till I am over 50.”
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In 2011, Kate Winslet instructed the Telegraph that she’d by no means succumb to trade strain to have work executed. She stated, “It goes towards my morals, the best way that my dad and mom introduced me up and what I take into account to be pure magnificence. I’ll by no means give in… I’m an actress, I do not wish to freeze the expression of my face.”
And in 2024, she instructed Harper’s Bazaar, “I feel folks know higher than to say, ‘You may wanna do one thing about these wrinkles.’ I am extra comfy in myself as every year passes. It allows me to permit the opinions of others to evaporate.”
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In 2022, Lea Michele instructed City & Nation journal, “Actually, it is all been one unbelievable dream on prime of an unbelievable dream. [Growing up,] folks would inform me to get nostril jobs, that I wasn’t fairly sufficient for movie and tv.”
She introduced up Barbra Streisand, who additionally rejected recommendation from individuals who instructed her to get a rhinoplasty. Lea stated, “She was an icon for me in my life.”
Beforehand, in 2019, she instructed Immediately, “I really like my nostril as a result of it is mine. Rising up, I labored on Broadway, and I all the time wished to transition into probably doing movie and tv. From a really younger age, I have to’ve been perhaps solely 13 years previous, I began being instructed by managers and brokers that in an effort to make it on tv or be on covers of magazines, that I used to be going to need to get a nostril job. I feel that folks ought to have the ability to make their very own decisions. If that is one thing that somebody desires to do, then nice; it is your physique and it is your selection. However nobody was going to make that selection for me. And I did not wish to try this.”
“I wished to take a look at my face and have it’s my face. And why I am so grateful that I selected that — made that call and caught true to what was proper for me — was as a result of I did transfer to Los Angeles and I ended up touchdown a task that, perhaps if I had regarded totally different, I would not have gotten the job,” she stated.
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In 2015, Halle Berry instructed Yahoo Magnificence, “It’s strain. While you see all people round you doing it, you’ve gotten these moments if you suppose, ‘To remain alive on this enterprise, do I have to do the identical factor?’ I will not lie and let you know that these issues do not cross my thoughts, as a result of any individual is all the time suggesting it to me. ‘You realize, in case you simply did somewhat little bit of this and that, raise this up, then this could be somewhat bit higher.’ It is virtually like crack that persons are making an attempt to push on you. That is what I really feel like. I simply have saved reminding myself that magnificence actually is as magnificence does, and it isn’t a lot about my bodily self.”
She continued, “Getting older is pure, and that is going to occur to all of us. I consider these ladies that I assumed aged so superbly, like Lena Horne. Even how Jane Fonda is getting old — I do not know what she has or hasn’t executed, however she seems lovely as she’s going about her approach. I simply wish to all the time appear like myself, even when that is an older model of myself. I feel if you do an excessive amount of of that beauty stuff, you turn into any individual else in a approach… We now have to cease eager to appear like that decade earlier than. We now have to cease coveting that. Let it go and embrace it now and actually be OK. It is easy to say, I assume, however that is the objective.”
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In 2017, Debra Messing alleged to Elle.com that A Stroll within the Clouds director Alfonso Arau declared that she wanted a rhinoplasty in entrance of everybody. She stated, “I would by no means been on a movie earlier than. I used to be doing a love scene with Keanu Reeves. We began filming, and the very well-known director screamed, ‘Lower’ and stated, ‘How shortly can we get a plastic surgeon in right here? Her nostril is ruining my film.'”
“It was a shock. I used to be so assured popping out of graduate faculty with my grasp’s in performing. I would studied in London, and I used to be so properly geared up with ability units, after which to stroll on set and have that occur — I used to be lowered to an un-Hollywood nostril,” she stated.
“It is taken me years and years and years to lastly personal my variations and to like what’s totally different about me, and to come back head to head with a reality inside my trade, inside our tradition. There’s a very slender definition of what a gorgeous, very important, vibrant, attention-grabbing lady seems like, and that is the factor we’re always preventing towards. My whole profession I have been swimming in that pond, the place it is like, ‘Oh no, you do not look proper,'” she concluded.
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In 2014, Sophia Loren instructed the Hollywood Reporter, “I all the time tried to not pay attention to those folks. They have been saying that my nostril was too lengthy and my mouth was too massive. It did not damage me in any respect as a result of after I imagine in one thing, it is like battle. It is a battle. However even Carlo [Ponti, her husband] stated, ‘You realize, the cameramen, they are saying that your nostril is just too lengthy. Perhaps it’s important to contact it somewhat bit.'”
“And I stated, ‘Hear, I do not wish to contact nothing on my face as a result of I like my face. If I’ve to vary my nostril, I’m going again to Pozzuoli.’ At the moment, they used to do noses like a French nostril with somewhat tip on the finish — they appreciated that. Are you able to think about me with a nostril like that?” she stated.
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Throughout a 2023 look on You Quiz on the Block, Ok-drama star and The Marvels actor Park Search engine optimisation-joon stated, “I auditioned a bunch of occasions earlier than I made my debut, and I didn’t go all of them. I used to be additionally usually instructed off at auditions. I suffered from low shallowness then… It was due to the best way I regarded. The usual of magnificence was fairly totally different again then; robust and sharp facial options have been in pattern. So, I hated how my eyes regarded. Plenty of casting administrators instructed me to get cosmetic surgery. Some have been even like, ‘What’s that face? What sort of world do you come from?'”
“As I repeatedly bought instructed to get cosmetic surgery, I progressively misplaced my confidence. I saved asking myself, ‘Am I doing one thing unsuitable right here? Perhaps this path is not for me.’ It was troublesome to proceed pushing myself to strive, going by all that. It wasn’t like I knew my future was going to be vibrant as properly. However I toughed it out, and fortunately, issues labored out for me,” he stated.
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In 2023, Coronation Avenue actor Dame Maureen Lipman instructed the Telegraph, “Al Parker was a movie agent who instructed me I would need to get my nostril executed as a result of I did not have a movie face. He despatched me to a plastic surgeon on Harley Avenue, the place I noticed that I may change my agent relatively than my nostril. In these days, they gave all people the identical nostril – somewhat retroussé. I am glad I did not have that as a result of you possibly can’t actually play character elements terribly properly with a retroussé nostril.”
“I am too frightened to have something executed, actually. I may not like what I see, however at the very least it is kind of what God gave me. I do not wish to appear like somebody’s pumped me up with a motorcycle pump,” she added.
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In 2024, stage and display actor Dame Sheila Hancock recalled what it was like not becoming ’50s magnificence requirements, telling the BBC, “I had pimples, so I had a nasty pores and skin. Any person noticed me in Bromley Rep doing a efficiency as a mannequin, and so they requested me to go and see them within the workplace. He sat me beneath a lamp and stated, ‘Nicely, you may need to have cosmetic surgery as a result of my nostril is so odd, ?’ So I did not match the sample of what’s finest to appear like as a girl, actually, in these days.”
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And at last, in 2023, Ruth Wilson instructed the Guardian, “As an actress, everybody does [Botox and fillers]. Only a few resist. I have never executed something – but. However it’s in my head as like, ‘Nicely, do you resolve to not and subsequently probably look older than your friends? Or do you simply give in?'”
She continued, “We’re like, ‘Wow,’ right now. However in 200 years, they’re going to be wanting again at pictures of girls now going, ‘What have been they doing?’ ‘What’s that? You are blowing your face and lips up.’ But it is a multibillion-dollar trade. And ladies are a part of that trade, perpetuating this ’empowerment.'”
