When you type “Jennifer Hawkins” into Google, the suggested term that follows is “plastic surgery”.
Hawkins, the 30-year-old former Miss Universe who went on to find a self-tanning empire and work as the host of Australia’s Next Top Model, is accused of getting work done by so many people, so regularly, that late last week the Australian Women’s Weekly took it upon themselves to flat-out ask her about it.
She responded like this:
“When someone says ‘under the knife’ I don’t have a reaction. Everyone in the industry gets that. That’s fine. I’m cool with that. I’m cool with people having an opinion, but as I said, I am happy with who I am as a person and really just want to live my life. I can’t live my life around what other people say. They just don’t get me, that’s how I take it.”
The media reaction was instant. The Daily Telegraph ran with the headline “Jennifer Hawkins denies having plastic surgery”, tweeting “You be the judge” from their Sydney Confidential account with the following image:
Former #missuniverse Jennifer Hawkins has denied having plastic #surgery. You be the judge. http://t.co/hSQuHGzx0w pic.twitter.com/SjRYaekGWX
— Sydney Confidential (@SydConfidential) May 2, 2014
As Hawkins herself points out, for several years now, people have had a lot to say about her face both publicly and privately and it would be disingenuous to put it all down to jealousy. We’re not going to republish a bunch of vicious and anonymous social media snark but this one from Sydney fashion designer Tali Jatali posted on Facebook some months ago accurately sums up the mood: “If u put more stuff in ur lips Jen Daffy is going to want to date you.”
So why is there so much nastiness aimed at celebrities like Jennifer Hawkins and Nicole Kidman (who provoked a similar reaction eight years ago when she too denied having any work on her face and insisted her flawless skin was due to “sunscreen”)?
Is it the fact their faces appear so different or is it simply the denial that riles people up?
I was born with my father’s lips – thin, shapeless, lizardish — and so a few years ago I bought my mother’s. Several years of braces didn’t give me a mouth I liked, but a few rounds of Restylane (an injectable filler used to plump up lips) certainly did. I can wear lipstick now. I can crack a smile in photographs. Sure, it’s a little bit of financial indulgence but it’s worth it because I love my lips.
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Does anyone know who does Jennifer Hawkins Botox & fillers? I want to go to them too! Clearly all if the celebs have this stuff done all of the time. Crazy to speculate, very obvious!
Personally I do not think it is a big deal to have work done nowadays. Science is available to improve one's appearance for self esteem and confidence, why not use it. Denying any work done when it is obvious that something has been done, in my opinion, is outright deception. But in reality, who are we fooling if we did this? It is nothing but a vain attempt in the hope that we may convince our very self that we did not have any work done. And that becomes a problem because we are moving into the territory of self denial. That is not healthy.
I had been researching on plastic surgery myself and I will consider having work done on myself to improve my jawline and neck. To some, that may be vanity. To me...it is simply a case of addressing my self confidence. I have recently used Botox on my frownlines. I made that decision because everytime I looked in the mirror, I was looking angry when In fact I was not and was ruining my day as it changed my outlook. I am happy with the result as it stops me from frowning and looking angry and this has made such a difference in people dynamics. I am no longer misunderstood as being a "bitch" because I looked angry.
The Botox is an extra expense for someone like me who is on average salary. I do it twice a year at the minimum dosage because I do not believe in overdoing it.
I am just an ordinary person and not a celebrity but I still incur the wrath of some people and have actually received hate private messages accusing me of having Botox.
To some, it is curiosity that has turned to contempt and jealousy.