How Old is Beautiful?
Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche has slammed the Hollywood-driven definition of beauty, deriding it as being a simple combination of "youth and big breasts. "In France," continues the Binoche, 44, "beauty is much more subtle - and there is a greater acceptance of age." She also criticizes the growth of cosmetic surgery (ab)use among American actresses of uncertain age: "Botox makes people look older. You look at women who have had it, you see the fear of ageing on their face."
Binoche's view is one that resonates not just with Europeans, but also with those taking a deeper look at the impact of Hollywood's beauty culture and its offshoots, those unreal Orange County-centric reality shows.
Maggie Little, a bioethicist at Georgetown University sums up the prevalent US definition of beauty well: “The notion of what we’re supposed to look like comes from celebrities and it’s really distorted,” she says. “As a culture, we’ve developed this very narrowed view of beauty — only one decade, the 20s.”
FHM Magazine published its list of the world's 100 sexiest women today. The average age of the top ten choices, all Hollywood actresses (could there possibly be a sexier profession?), is 26.
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