This former Bond girl says she "ruined his face" with plastic surgery
"It was the biggest mistake of my life," said 78-year-old actor in a frank interview.
Since the 1960s, when Ursula Andress entered the role of Honey Ryder inDr. NO,Bound girls have perpetuated and consistent with a certain level of beauty. And this can put a lot of pressure on the actors who play them. Now, nearly 50 years after its stein as a bond girl in 1974The man with the golden pistolSwedish actorBritt Ekland shares the lengths she went to have some way. In a recent interview with U.K.Platinum magazine, Ekland 78 stated that it looks like "ruining its face" with plastic surgery. Read to hear how badly things have turned, and how it feels aging now.
Britt Ekland looks like the plastic surgery she did in her 50s "destroyed [her] look."
Ekland was 25 when she appeared inThe man with the golden pistolLike Girl Bond Mary good evening. "Bond In many ways, was the gift that never ceases to give: "The actor saidPlatinum(Going throughThe daily mail) "It did not offer me anything that joy." However, the pressure to maintain its appearance in Hollywood brought it everything except.
She said she had plastic surgery when she was in her fifties and described the increase in lip specifically as the "biggest mistake of life". Ekland said at the exit: "It destroyed my eyes and ruined my face."
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She believes that her plastic surgeon used it as an "experience".
Ekland says that the Parisian surgeon who has increased his lip "used [her] as a kind of experience and destroyed [his lips]", as she saidPlatinum.
Instead of the treatment she was expecting after a consultation, the doctor injected Artecoll around the edge of her lips, describing her as "new dental equipment". While the material has becomePopular as a lip injection In the 1990s in some parts of the world, it has never been approved for use in the United States, due to manyReported complications. "Most doctors today do not want to use it," Ekland said in the magazine.
She even ceased to work as an actor because she was so conscious of her.
"For a very long time, I could not do television or movies," Ekland said. "I had to live with newspapers printing horrible images of me."
She has made painful "painful" corticosteroid injections to try to reverse the damage and "melt" the Artecoll, but it was not satisfied with the results.
Finally, she realized that plastic surgery will not change her situation. "Hiswill not give me more roles To make me look better. I am and people have to accept it, "she saidHello Great BritainIn 2020, according toThe daily mail. "I accepted that, you accept it!"
Today, Ekland said: "When I look at the photographs of myself before I know, I looked very well. I can see that now, but I could not see it at the time . "
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Today, Ekland has embraced old.
"Everyone has the right to choose," said EklandPlatinumof the decision to obtain plastic surgery. "[I] would not consider it again. I have no desire to look different from what I am."
In his 2020 interview withHello Great Britain, Ekland said, "I think it's tragic because the time you look really good, it's before you're 25. Everyone changes to them to be all aged and older and older. "
Now, a year later, Ekland seems to have embraced the aging a little more. "The old comes to everyone. It's useless to complain about that or wish you can change," she saidPlatinum. "We all go in one direction and there is nothing we can do about it. That's about yourself during this trip."
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