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Ashley Judd’s face has been a topic on gossip sites for a few weeks now, ever since she made a few appearances with a ‘puffy face’ which she says was a side effect of a medication, steroids. Ashley wrote an article on The Daily Beast, where she discusses the media and how people are overly criticized.
Read her 5 points below where she talks about the media’s perception on her looks,
One: When I am sick for more than a month and on medication (multiple rounds of steroids), the accusation is that because my face looks puffy, I have “clearly had work done,†with otherwise credible reporters with great bravo “identifying†precisely the procedures I allegedly have had done.
Two: When my skin is nearly flawless, and at age 43, I do not yet have visible wrinkles that can be seen on television, I have had “work done,†with media outlets bolstered by consulting with plastic surgeons I have never met who “conclude†what procedures I have “clearly†had. (Notice that this is a “back-handed compliment,†too—I look so good! It simply cannot possibly be real!)
Three: When my 2012 face looks different than it did when I filmed Double Jeopardy in 1998, I am accused of having “messed up†my face (polite language here, the F word is being used more often), with a passionate lament that “Ashley has lost her familiar beauty audiences loved her for.â€
Four: When I have gained weight, going from my usual size two/four to a six/eight after a lazy six months of not exercising, and that weight gain shows in my face and arms, I am a “cow†and a “pig†and I “better watch out†because my husband “is looking for his second wife.†(Did you catch how this one engenders competition and fear between women? How it also suggests that my husband values me based only on my physical appearance? Classic sexism. We won’t even address how extraordinary it is that a size eight would be heckled as “fat.â€)
Five: In perhaps the coup de grace, when I am acting in a dramatic scene in Missing—the plot stating I am emotionally distressed and have been awake and on the run for days—viewers remarks ranged from “What the f–k did she do to her face?†to cautionary gloating, “Ladies, look at the work!†Footage from “Missing†obviously dates prior to March, and the remarks about how I look while playing a character powerfully illustrate the contagious and vicious nature of the conversation. The accusations and lies, introduced to the public, now apply to me as a woman across space and time; to me as any woman and to me as every woman.
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