After years of denying the use of cosmetic surgery to achieve her age-defying looks, Nicole Kidman has pulled an about-face.
The actress, 43, says she used Botox – but says she no longer uses it.
“I’ve tried a lot of things, but aside from sports and good nutrition, most things don’t make a difference,” Kidman told the German magazine TV Movie. “I have also tried Botox.”
Unless she used it in the past three years, the revelation comes as a surprise: In 2007, she denied ever having cosmetic surgery performed on her porcelain skin.
“To be honest, I am completely natural,” Kidman told Marie Claire at the time. “I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don’t smoke. I take care of myself. And I’m very proud to say that.”
However, Kidman, who is nominated for a Golden Globe for her emotional portrayal of a grieving mother in “Rabbit Hole,” says she stopped using the injections because she didn’t like the results. Botox, which temporarily reduces the appearance of wrinkles on a patient’s face, can also have the effect of freezing a patient’s expression.
“I didn’t like how my face looked afterwards,” the actress admitted. “Now I don’t use it anymore – I can move my forehead again!”
The 21-year-old son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson is gaining notice on the Web for his hip-hop aspirations, as he raps about drugs, alcohol and girls in his new song “White And Purple,” a take-off on Wiz Khalifa’s “Black And Yellow.”
Chet, a sophomore at Chicago’s Northwestern University, said he didn’t mean to offend anyone with his lyrics.
“I don’t think it’s something that should cause anybody to be angry or offend anyone,” Chet told his college paper, The Daily Northwestern, explaining that his music is based on college life.
He also said he doesn’t want to be tagged as “Tom Hanks’ son,” preferring to gain attention for his own exploits.
“Even though I know people will be talking about it, I don’t want them to be absolutely focusing on that,” Hanks told the paper. “I’m not my dad. I am my own person.”
Oprah Winfrey has never hidden the fact that she’s an emotional eater.
In an outtake from her interview airing on next Monday’s debut episode of “Piers Morgan Tonight,” the talk-show host recalls a time when her eating habit spiraled out of control.
After her 1998 film “Beloved” bombed at the box office, Winfrey says she went into a “massive, depressive macaroni and cheese-eating tailspin — literally!”
“I’m not in the movie business. I did this movie because I was passionate about it,” Winfrey, 56, explains. “I didn’t know that you had that weekend and that is it. So I am thinking that if people don’t go this weekend, that people will go see it next weekend.”
“It premiered on a Friday and I remember hearing on Saturday morning that we got beat by something called ‘Chucky,'” she tells CNN. “I didn’t even know what Chucky was. I asked my chef at the time, Art Smith, to make some macaroni and cheese.”
How much did Winfrey — who launched the OWN Network on January 1 — actually consume?
“I ate about 30 pounds worth,” she reveals. “I’m not kidding! It’s the only time in my life I was ever depressed. I recognized I was depressed because I’ve done enough shows (to know), ‘Oh, this is what those people must feel like.”
Goldie Hawn faces having her private life laid bare in a tell-all book by her ex-husband.
Former musician Bill Hudson, father of Kate Hudson, is looking for a publisher for his book that looks at their life together.
Tentatively titled “So You Are a Star,” the book reportedly accuses of Hawn of having ‘open relationships’ during their four-year marriage, which she denies.
He details how she allegedly cheated on him soon after they wed in 1976.
Hawn’s ex recalls a conversation with actor George Segal who told him the actress had a reputation in Hollywood for always ‘being up for a good time.’
In one extract he says Hawn confessed to seeing another man, telling him: ‘You are my soul mate… it’s just that I’ve always believed in open marriage.’
Hudson, who is in his 60s, also accuses Hawn of limiting his access to their two children, actress Kate and son Oliver after their break-up.
Hawn, 65, who starred in film comedies “Private Benjamin” and “Overboard,” wed Hudson in 1976.
She had shot to fame in the 1960s TV series “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In” and became well known for her appearances in a bikini.
Film roles followed and she established her name in movies like “Shampoo” and “There’s a Girl in My Soup” with British comic Peter Sellers. She was also in the more recent Woody Allen film “Everybody Says I Love You.”
She and Hudson divorced in 1980 when daughter Kate was 18 month old.
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