Botox is turning Nicole Kidman into a 'bat face,' says cosmetic guru

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Botox is turning Nicole Kidman into a 'bat face,' says cosmetic guru

By FRANK THORNE - More by this author » Last updated at 13:54pm on 13th March 2008

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Nicole Kidman has used Botox injections so much she is giving the cosmetic medicine industry a bad name for creating a "bat face" look, a leading Canadian Botox expert has claimed. The Hollywood star, 40, has denied using the anti-wrinkle treatment, recently saying her look is "completely natural".

But Dr Martin Braun, one of the largest proponents of Botox on the American continent, insists there is no doubt Kidman has been an "enthusiastic user". Dr Braun, who is based in Vancouver, dubbed "Hollywood North", told the Australian cosmetic medicine conference on the Gold Coast in Queensland that he believed Kidman was "doing too much at the wrong time" with the drug, which works by paralysing muscles and softening the face.

"Nicole seems to get her Botox done two or three weeks before a big event so when she, for instance, goes up on stage to collect her Academy Award she looks frozen and strange," Dr Braun said.

"She looks like a bat with too much of a brow lift, the middle of the brow's been dropped, she's crying when she accepts her Oscar but nothing is moving.

[joeybee12]

1. I think it's more of a cat face, and she's lucky, because they're still

making Batman movies aren't they? They'll bring catwoman back again.

Then again, on second thought, is she too old for Batgirl?

[hisownpetard]

28. Check back next year, at which time her eyebrows will be on the back of her head...

[edbermac]

2. She still has a nice backside.

[devilgrrl]

3. Laura Flynn Boyle is looking a little weird these days too.

What is it with already attractive people getting cosmetic surgery.



The second picture is from 2003, she was the guest star on last night's Law & Order and looks worse now....

[LynneSin]

6. Lara's problem is she went from healthy weight (aka Twin Peaks)

to near starvation.

And please, for those of you who are naturally thin don't start busting on me. LFB had a few curves back in her early career. She was another one who starved herself down to a below normal weight. And doing that tends to add alot of age to ones face

[geardaddy]

9. We saw that.

She does look hideous.

[Rob H.]

37. On L&O last night

I could swear she's not only gone nuts with the lip collagen, she looks as if she's had cheek implants and Botox, too.

Why do women get lip collagen, anyway? I love full-lipped women just as much as the next person but every woman I've ever seen who's had it done never looks natural. (Lisa Rinna's lips, especially, are cartoonishly large.) Ugh.

[Iris]

4. She looks awful.

What a shame. She started out as such a pretty lady.

[AlCzervik]

5. did you see Lara Flynn Boyle on Law & Order last night? I don't know if she's

over done the botox or had collagen injections or some type of face lift but she needs to stop, she was beautiful and now her face is puffy and almost unrecognizable from just a few years ago.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. the collagen work on her lips was beyond awful, normally i dont weigh in on these threads

but i think she should sue her cosmetic surgeon

[AlCzervik]

8. yup, something went wrong, like the puffiness reminded me of an allergic reaction.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. yup puffiness and assymetry. i would sue.

[devilgrrl]

13. I still can't figure out why attractive women feel the need to do that to themselves.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. because society demands we look young. women arent stupid, they still want to be

employable, and looking young makes them employable.

[devilgrrl]

16. We were discussing Veronica Hamel the other day and how pretty she is at age 63

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3747191552/nm0357557

She doesn't look like she had anything done to her face and she still looks fabulous!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. she has had a lot of really good work done. i have never seen a 63 year old woman

with skin that young.

[devilgrrl]

21. Good work done? Where? I've yet to see decent cosmetic surgery. I live in LA.

I think she aged naturally.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. if it were good work, you wouldnt know it now,. would you?

isnt that what good work is?

[devilgrrl]

24. And I don't think she had any done.

Guess we disagree on this one.

[BarenakedLady]

11. If she looks like a bat,

I must look like the stuff my cat throws up.

[pitohui]

12. people just have very unrealistic ideas about what women look like

kidman looks terrific and i'm sure you do also

the people carping at her for getting botox would be just as harsh if she did go natural -- the natural face of a slim 40 year old white woman is not smooth and wrinkle-free

don't worry, they'll get theirs when they reach that age, i doubt anyone posting on this thread knocking kidman will look half as good as she does at 40

[Hand]

15. View at your own risk...

This is what's left of Mickey Rourke...

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Yikes!

[AlCzervik]

19. do you know who this used to be?

[devilgrrl]

25. Is that Richard Greco?

He looks awful

[AlCzervik]

26. yup, in a few more years with more surgery---which you know he will do he'll be able

to be Mickey Rourke's double.

[Hand]

29. No...

...but I assume it's bad news.

[AlCzervik]

30. Richard Greico.

[Hand]

33. Yep. Bad news. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Time for the Awful Plastic Surgery site again. This is a serious and tragic epidemic

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/

[devilgrrl]

22. Most plastic surgery is awful

who are people kidding when they have that done?

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. I dunno :^(

[zanne]

32. Yikes!

The only one who actually looks good with plastic surgery is Joan Rivers!

[Kutjara]

31. Considering she got her Oscar in 2003 for "The Hours,"...

...Dr. Braun seems a bit tardy with his comments.

[KG]

34. i'd hit it!

from behind, if i had to!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

35. I never knew a bat could be so cute.

[MrScorpio]

36. Why would a 40 year old woman NEED so much BOTOX?

Because the commercials tell her so?