Where Did Nicole Kidman’s Face Go Wrong?

This plastic creature makes me ashamed I'm Australian.

Nicole is the original "resting bitch face."

I am so angry at her for doing that shit to her face and her hair. She was a good actress and a beautiful woman with a distinct face. Now she looks like every other grotesque on the Upper East Side with frozen trout face and brittle white blonde hair.

I couldn’t enjoy her on “Big Little Lies” at all. (Worst wigs EVER, too. My god.

The lips are clown-scary.

She was gorgeous in Moulin Rouge.

She always wants that alabaster blonde look, but it’s too ethereal for her delicate features. Then she compensates with the bright makeup and it’s too doll-like. She always looks better to me with earthier neutral tones in hair and features.

I think she’s tremendous.

The lips are a disgrace. They do go back to normal, won’t they? And when?

Saddest part is that these people who mutilate their faces are role models for many. She and those who indulge in this are pitiful and have no place being in the spotlight to teach others.

reminds me of Baby Jane.....all she needs is the white face makeup

So tragic. I just watched Eyes Wide Shut for the first time in 20 years last night, she was ethereal then. Now she looks like one of those apple witch dolls people used to make at Halloween.

Hasn't hurt her career.

Last year she could barely leave the house without winning an award.

I never thought she was gorgeous per se (should never have played Grace Kelly) but she was fairly pretty as a young woman. She did not need enhancements. She doesn't need huge lips just because they're trendy. I don't know why she had to go down the scary route.

It’s just a bad photo. It’s the same damn photo every troll on the block and blog in town uses. I could bet money on it. If it’s a trash Nic thread, it’s the blond photo with the overdrawn lipliner. It’s not even fillers really. It’s so tired.

If you spent years keeping a permanently neutral expression as Mrs Tom Cruise, you’d have nerve damage too.

She hates being asked about wigs. Probably nearly bald.

Too many face fillers... her cheeks always look swollen these days. Unless you're getting fat, your face gets thinner with age. And she naturally has very thin lips, but again overheard with the injections/implant. She did look her best around Moulin Rouge, I think she already had a few nips and pokes by then. Blonde hair doesn't suit her as well as red, whatever her natural shade is.

When she was married to Tom Cruise and spent most of her life as arm candy on the red carpet, she was really striking-looking because she didn't look like the rest of Hollywood. She was too tall, her hair was too red and too curly, she still had some freckles, and she wore off-beat colors like that chartreuse Galliano number.

Since she's "come into her own", I notice something creepy. Her skin is getting paler, her hair is getting paler, she is botoxed and primped to look like everybody else, and at awards nights she regularly wears that color called "blush", which looks good on nobody who was born white. It's really as though she's trying to disappear.

There is a psychological study in this somewhere. If only she was interesting enough that anyone could be bothered pursuing it.

R18 She's becoming a Stepford Wife, just like her character in the inferior re -make she starred in.

R14 is right. In general, she looks great on screen despite her looks changing over the years (some of it clearly with fillers, etc). I still find her beautiful and incredibly watchable/talented.

I loved the courtroom scenes in BLL2 with Meryl. Nicole is one of the finest actresses of her generation, IMO. I don’t see why her talent doesn’t get more DL love.

r20 is Keith Urban

I'm a huge fan of Nicole Kidman's work and the creative risks she takes. She has the best resume of any actress in film. She's adventurous and daring in the roles and projects she chooses and she speaks often about liking to work with all kinds of alternative directors and collaborators.

But it is not just one bad photo. I agree with R6. I don't know how Kidman sees herself in real life but it's far too pale and frilly and feminine and insecure about her age and she makes me nervous when I see her on red carpets or dancing awkwardly to her husband's music at award shows. She seems uncomfortable in the spotlight, but she has something she's trying to maintain and it's not working. She doesn't get much DL love because she's quiet and not a caricature of a woman. But I think there's a bit of Blanche Dubois in our Nicole. She's a bit deranged.

She’s the new Catwoman.

Did anyone see Top of the Lake - China Girl? She plays an age appropriate - late 40's - woman with, grey curly hair, very little make up and some freckles. she looked normal!! And she was really good in the role!

R24, no! How did I miss that? I LOVED the first one with Elisabeth Moss. Gotta find it and watch it.

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I bought the season on iTunes. It didn't get great reviews but I loved it.

She was seriously embarrassing in Luhrmann’s Australia with Huge Jackoff. Her face didn’t move. *shudder*

The kind of curly hair Nicole had in her youth rarely lasts past 45 on white women except for a few lucky souls. She may not be chasing the light blond look per se - it's just easier to maintain blonde than red once a gal/guy goes grey.

Nicoles hair is all wigs dear. You haven't been following along?

R29 See also.

R29) I've read the entire thread. I guess she needs better wigs.

She resembles Tom in OP’s photo.

R28, even if she didn't wear wigs, I don't think "easier to maintain" is any consideration for a millionaire Hollywood star, who would have a hairdresser on speed dial at all times and in all countries.

She looks quite masculine in the photo on the left.