Hollywood is synonymous with inconceivable magnificence requirements. Even probably the most gorgeous actor you may consider has in all probability been advised 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 below are 19 actors who rejected recommendation to surgically change themselves for the business:
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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 advised 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 acquired 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 yr. My greatest recommendation for you is to return house and get well-known.'”
“There’s lots of people in our neighborhood who can relate to this sense. I had already achieved all I may do to get to that A degree, which is star in theater, TV, movie, and one way or the other, 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 in the back of all of our heads, and that is your worry. 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 individuals are going to mislead you, however she will not mislead you. She advised the reality. Return.’ I used a pay telephone to name [director Sturla Gunnarsson] and was not in a position to cease crying. It simply lower 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 advised 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 need 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 profitable Miss World 2000. She wrote, “After a couple of minutes of small speak, the director/producer advised me to face up and twirl for him. I did. He stared at me lengthy and arduous, assessing me, after which instructed that I get a boob job, repair my jaw, and add somewhat extra cushioning to my butt. If I needed to be an actress, he stated, I would must have my proportions ‘mounted,’ and he knew an amazing physician in LA he may ship me to. My then-manager voiced his settlement with the evaluation.”
She stated the encounter left her feeling “shocked and small.” Not lengthy after, she lower ties with that supervisor.
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In a 2010 weblog publish, Hook actor Dante Basco wrote, “Sooner or later I keep 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 resulting from 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 enjoying something and every part 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 offer it some robust thought…”
He continued, “A nostril job… Initially, it was the ’80s, and nostril jobs have been in. After all, the supervisor [cited] individuals like Michael Jackson who acquired a nostril job and the way it helped his profession (not less than that is what she stated). Even my then-acting trainer advised me Elvis Presley had a nostril job early in his profession (nonetheless unsure if that is true). She even [offered] to arrange the appointment to the physician that did a good friend of her’s nostril. As a young person, this can be a bizarre factor to consider… Hell, pondering again on it now, it is somewhat bizarre. The factor about it’s, there have been a number of individuals placing strain on me about getting this process achieved, and never simply enterprise. I do know that there are particular individuals in my household, one aunt for sure, that will’ve jumped at an opportunity to get their nostril ‘mounted.’ And it is a reasonably large factor to go and alter the factor smack dab in the midst of your face…”
“….Now I am unsure if the precise appointment was set, however I do keep in mind realizing one thing… See, my administration and what I felt on the time, as ‘Hollywood,’ needed me to get my nostril ‘mounted’… ‘mounted,’ ‘modified’ … however ‘modified’ to what? I noticed they needed 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… hastily I can perhaps go for white,” he wrote.
“I simply figured it doesn’t matter what my nostril appears 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, not less than not in that approach, and in the end, that is not how I needed 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 have 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 anyhow,” he concluded.
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In 2025, Winona Ryder advised Elle that, lately, feminine administrators have been advising her to begin Botox. She stated, “They’re going to say, ‘Simply loosen up your brow. Loosen up.’ I am attempting to be an amazing actor, they usually’re saying that time and again. It is good that individuals are speaking about the way it’s OK to age, however there’s nonetheless huge strain. Each function I get is for a mom, you already know? My profession has positively shifted.”
“So, I feel what I aspire to, lastly, is to play the choose who’s like, ‘Chambers now, counselor! Too far!'” she added.
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In 2023, Rosie Perez advised Selection, “I do not need her [the agent she had around the time she did 21 Jump Street] to be canceled, however she advised me that if I dyed my hair blonde and acquired 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 person” and “had no cash.” Nonetheless, she discovered an ally in her Prison 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 business is.’ She picks up the telephone and calls Jane Berliner at CAA and says, ‘You could characterize this actress.'”
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Whereas Kirsten Dunst was capturing 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 advised GQ, “I used to be like, ‘No, I like my enamel.'”
She later felt inspired by The Virgin Suicides director Sofia Coppola, who “cherished” her enamel. Kirsten stated, “I did not notice on the time. I noticed it [later] in choices I had made. To not change enamel, to not blow up my lips, or no matter it’s that everybody needs to seem like. I nonetheless know to at the present time, I am not gonna screw up my face and seem like a freak. what I imply? I would somewhat get outdated and do good roles.”
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On the 2017 Girls in Movie Los Angeles’ Crystal + Lucy Awards, Elizabeth Banks stated, “The primary agent I ever met on this business advised me to get a boob job. I used to be so grateful that I did not manage to pay for on the time to observe 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 lovely 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, you already know, the ingenue and fairly and the main actress. And that was fed to me for a lot of, a few years. And I keep in mind, ever since a younger age, I assumed to myself, ‘Once 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 in the future 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 would possibly suppose magnificence is. However I feel it is lovely, and I feel I wanna see extra huge noses on girls on the display. So, go, child.”
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In 2014, Julia Roberts advised You journal, “By Hollywood requirements, I assume I’ve already taken a giant danger in not having had a facelift. However I’ve advised Lancome that I need to be an getting old mannequin – so that they should maintain me for not less than 5 extra years till I am over 50.”
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In 2011, Kate Winslet advised the Telegraph that she’d by no means succumb to business strain to have work achieved. She stated, “It goes towards my morals, the best way that my mother and father introduced me up and what I think about to be pure magnificence. I’ll by no means give in… I’m an actress, I do not need to freeze the expression of my face.”
And in 2024, she advised Harper’s Bazaar, “I feel individuals know higher than to say, ‘You would possibly wanna do one thing about these wrinkles.’ I am extra snug in myself as every year passes. It permits me to permit the opinions of others to evaporate.”
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In 2022, Lea Michele advised City & Nation journal, “Truthfully, it is all been one unimaginable dream on prime of an unimaginable dream. [Growing up,] individuals would inform me to get nostril jobs, that I wasn’t fairly sufficient for movie and tv.”
Beforehand, in 2019, she advised Right now, “I really like my nostril as a result of it is mine. Rising up, I labored on Broadway, and I at all times needed to transition into probably doing movie and tv. From a really younger age, I need to’ve been perhaps solely 13 years outdated, I began being advised by managers and brokers that as a way to make it on tv or be on covers of magazines, that I used to be going to should get a nostril job. I feel that folks ought to be capable of make their very own decisions. If that is one thing that somebody needs to do, then nice; it is your physique and it is your alternative. However nobody was going to make that alternative for me. And I did not need to do this.”
“I needed 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 job that, perhaps if I had regarded completely different, I would not have gotten the job,” she stated.
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In 2015, Halle Berry advised Yahoo Magnificence, “It’s strain. If you see all people round you doing it, you have got these moments whenever you suppose, ‘To remain alive on this enterprise, do I must do the identical factor?’ I will not lie and inform you that these issues do not cross my thoughts, as a result of any individual is at all times suggesting it to me. ‘, in the event you simply did somewhat little bit of this and that, elevate this up, then this may be somewhat bit higher.’ It is nearly like crack that individuals are attempting 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’s not a lot about my bodily self.”
She continued, “Ageing is pure, and that is going to occur to all of us. I consider these girls 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 achieved, however she appears lovely as she’s going about her approach. I simply need to at all times seem like myself, even when that is an older model of myself. I feel whenever you do an excessive amount of of that beauty stuff, you grow to be any individual else in a approach… We’ve to cease eager to seem like that decade earlier than. We’ve to cease coveting that. Let it go and embrace it now and actually be OK. It is simple 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 college with my grasp’s in performing. I would studied in London, and I used to be so properly outfitted with ability units, after which to stroll on set and have that occur — I used to be decreased 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 completely different about me, and to return head to head with a fact inside my business, inside our tradition. There’s a very slender definition of what a lovely, very important, vibrant, attention-grabbing lady appears like, and that is the factor we’re always combating towards. My total 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 advised the Hollywood Reporter, “I at all times tried to not pay attention to those individuals. They have been saying that my nostril was too lengthy and my mouth was too huge. It did not damage me in any respect as a result of once I imagine in one thing, it is like struggle. It is a battle. However even Carlo [Ponti, her husband] stated, ‘, the cameramen, they are saying that your nostril is simply too lengthy. Perhaps it’s important to contact it somewhat bit.'”
“And I stated, ‘Hear, I do not need 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 favored 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 Website positioning-joon stated, “I auditioned a bunch of occasions earlier than I made my debut, and I did not go all of them. I used to be additionally usually advised off at auditions. I suffered from low vanity then… It was due to the best way I regarded. The usual of magnificence was fairly completely different again then; robust and sharp facial options have been in development. So, I hated how my eyes regarded. Loads of casting administrators advised 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 acquired advised to get cosmetic surgery, I progressively misplaced my confidence. I saved asking myself, ‘Am I doing one thing improper right here? Perhaps this path is not for me.’ It was tough to proceed pushing myself to strive, going by means of 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 advised the Telegraph, “Al Parker was a movie agent who advised me I would should get my nostril achieved 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 somewhat 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 may’t actually play character elements terribly properly with a retroussé nostril.”
“I am too frightened to have something achieved, actually. I may not like what I see, however not less than it is kind of what God gave me. I do not need to seem like somebody’s pumped me up with a motorbike 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. Anyone noticed me in Bromley Rep doing a efficiency as a mannequin, they usually requested me to go and see them within the workplace. He sat me beneath a lamp and stated, ‘Properly, you may should have cosmetic surgery as a result of my nostril is so odd, you already know?’ So I did not match the sample of what’s greatest to seem like as a lady, actually, in these days.”
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And eventually, in 2023, Ruth Wilson advised the Guardian, “As an actress, everybody does [Botox and fillers]. Only a few resist. I have never achieved something – but. But it surely’s in my head as like, ‘Properly, do you resolve to not and due to this fact probably look older than your friends? Or do you simply give in?'”
She continued, “We’re like, ‘Wow,’ right this moment. However in 200 years, they’re going to be trying again at photos of ladies now going, ‘What have been they doing?’ ‘What’s that? You are blowing your face and lips up.’ But it is a multibillion-dollar business. And girls are a part of that business, perpetuating this ’empowerment.'”
