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 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"
"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.
He said users should be getting their injections two to three months out from a big event so the effect had started to wear off, and actors in particular should use minimal product.
"These people who have extraordinary amounts of money and fame are actually getting, in my opinion, poor medical advice." Dr Gabrielle Caswell, from the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia, agreed Kidman was a likely Botox user, saying "she's a bit too wrinkle-free for an Australian of her skin tone".
Dr Caswell said it was industry consensus that other Australian stars like Elle Macpherson and Kylie Minogue also used Botox, and Angelina Jolie, the so-called gold standard of beauty, was "a definite". Dr Braun said he believed 99 per cent of stars in Hollywood or otherwise were Botox converts, "they just don't like admitting it, that's all".
