Justine Bateman on fame, reality stars, & Michael J. Fox

Wow, she looks terrible. What happened? Eating disorder? C'mon Jason help your sister out.

She looks good for being in her 60's.

Shades of Shelley Duvall

r2 She's 54.

R4, I think R2 knows.

I think this is normal aging for us non-Hollywood, non-NYC folks. She probably needs to gain a few pounds. These days, tight, swollen, the puffed-out, filled-up look is considered normal for women in their 50s.

My mom is 10 years older and looks younger than her.

That is not a good 54. Regardless, the long hair is horrible. A good haircut would do wonders for her, because she looks like she just walked out of the commune.

Just give her the Lana Turner light. She'll be fine.

Her hands and arms look pretty good for her age, though.

She looks like your average chainsmoking 50-something barfly from the midwest. She would definitely look healthier if she gained a bit of weight. A bit of fat naturally fills in the face, eliminating that desiccated corpse look.

The body is enviable. I wonder if she hadn't mostly disappeared from the screen, would people be less "what happened?!"

Is she a vegan or vegetarian? Because they age like shit.

R6 every time I read something like that I have to eye roll just a little ...I have a “real people” family and while they don’t look like well preserved celebrities or wives of billionaires absolutely none of them aged like that,

Wow! She looks like trash.

People that don't buckle and go for plastic surgery are considered freaks these days especially in the entertainment industry where it is practically mandatory. People that age naturally have varying looks. Genes, skin quality, bone structure, lifestyle choices etc. all play into it.

She seems quite bright and introspective and the books sounds interesting.

My mom, a retired nurse, who is 68 looks better and healthier than that thing. Stay away from fags and booze kids!

r14, have most of them got fat or at least "soft"?

Yes she hasn’t aged well but honestly who cares? I admire that she hasn’t had work done like everyone else. We forget what real people look like these days. I say good for her.

METH VIBES.

She could be on Jason's new show.

That's what a 54 year old female looks like most of the time. There are lots of pics that make her look thirty. Direct light washes away wrinkles on people over 30. There is a reason that thirty used to be the cut off for women.

It's ok to get older, but, for sure, get a new haircut, get rid of the harsh black eyeliner, tidy up those eyebrows, and put on a flattering lip shade, and she'd be fine.

Meth

There was a saying "back in the day" - after a certain age, chose what you want - face or figure. You just cannot keep a slender body without it showing on your face.

Yup, after 40, it’s face or ass. She picked ass, her body is pretty good.

Years of smoking, drinking, and recreational drugs coupled with being 20 pounds underweight with exactly the wrong haircut. Also, bad lighting.

You can find a balance - face/ass. You just can't be "camera thin."

She has her pilot's licence, is a certified scuba diver, and she is a vocal advocate for net neutrality. She has two children and has ben married nearly 20 years. Her arms look great. Living her best life.

I loved her as Mallory Keaton.

I wonder what age her mother was here.

She seems to have long favored unflattering eye makeup.

Is this from "Arrested Development"?

She hates her brother, just like Valerie Harper hated him.

Justine is a SCUBA diver.

She was Leif Garrett's partner for many years. I don't think they were sitting at home sipping herbal teas.

Well actually, everything about her in OP's picture screams herbal tea.

Patchouli oil

I've seen homeless women look healthier.

She's doing something to look like this - drugs, bulimia, weird eating habits - this is just not normal.

Her hair is too long.

This pretentious bitch talking about her philosophy on fame...

[quote]Is this from "Arrested Development"?

The episode was titled "Family Ties" and she played a woman who Michael thought was his secret sister.

Back in the day, rumors were flying that she difficult and bulimic. She doesn't look horrible though. And I like her voice. She sounds smart even when she's saying not especially smart things.

Holy fuck. Too much sun? Her body isn't enviable, look at the sagging skin on her arms in R12's photo.

R39 - yeah, she was famous for about 7 years. Have we checked in with Soleil Moon Frye yet? Was Charlene Tilton busy?

Back in the 80s, US magazine did a celebrity puff piece on her. In one of the photos she was displaying her “art” which consisted of her spray painting a couple of Barbie dolls, supergluing them to a canvas, and slapping it into a frame. She looked so proud. Wish I could find that picture online to post it! She sounds equally deluded with this book.

She’d look so much better with gray/white hair. Obviously she’s not into plastic surgery and all that shit. A woman with a lithe body and natural hair usually gives an impression of strength and vitality (as it does for men as well).

Maybe she is a smoker and sun worshiper with an eating disorder.

Also, she pings for me.

She's directed a movie that was supposed to show at South by Southwest this year.

More importantly, I had no idea Larry King was still doing some kind of show. Is it just for youtube?

[quote]Have we checked in with Soleil Moon Frye yet?

How could you forget about the upcoming Punky Brewster reboot?

Well she’s no Kristy MacNichol.

Justine Bateman on fame: “You’ve got big dreams, you want fame. Well fame costs, and right here is where you start paying; in sweat.”

Nothing about her look is age appropriate, so your eye can’t help but compare what it’s seeing to someone for whom it would be appropriate to wear hair, makeup, clothing and accessories like this.

For a twenty-something, she looks like death warmed over.

So profound Justine/r50. Now shut up and tell us about Scott Valentine’s penis.

[quote]People that don't buckle and go for plastic surgery are considered freaks these days, but pretty much only in the entertainment industry.

Fixed that for you.

What is that orange mushroom-like creature attacking her head?

"There are lots of pics that make her look thirty. "

Post a few then. Because I've never seen any anywhere that make her "look thirty."

I’m guessing she had an eating disorder.

She needs to have that flower surgically removed from her head. A before and after shot would be nice.

Google her. Lots of pics that make her look thirty

She has almost achieved full Dafoe.

[quote]My mom is 10 years older and looks younger than her.

Nebuchadnezzar's mother looks younger than her.

She looks like her brother, if her brother was a methhead tranny hooker.

"Google her. Lots of pics that make her look thirty."

I've googled her. In no recent photo I've seen of her does she "look thirty." You must have some kind of vision impairment.

She gives off a lesbian vibe

Did Jason Bateman become a tranny,lose too much weight and decide to act like a lesbian? Sure seems like that to me....

I think that might be an actual coronavirus attached to her head. Maybe that's what' rapidly aging her.

She looks like the batshit crazy lady who lives in the woods on the outskirts of town and keeps raccoons as pets and shows up at every town hall meeting, interrupting all the town officials with her insane bullshit outbursts.

I'm confused. Is Larry King on the left or right?

Quit smoking, you hag.

She looked 30 when she was 15.

I would still let her brother slide it in me.

Me thinks she caught a case of THE AIDS!

Even 10/15 years ago when she was around 40 she looked old af...no need to keep making excuses for her.

R18 both. I’m somewhat underweight however (and used to be a lot more underweight, but my metabolism has caught up with me a bit the past couple of years). My skin looks fine.

She'd look so much better if her hair were not plastered to her skull like Alfalfa. Looks like she still has nice, thick, brown hair.

Also, she's got heavy eyeliner circling her eyes. Then, no other makeup to balance that out (nothing done to her amorphous-looking eyebrows, nothing on her lips, etc.). If she paid just a little bit of attention to the eyebrows, her whole look would change.

The flower could be OK if she would unplaster her hair from her scalp.

The lighting could have been better.

She was Hollywood chubby on Men Behaving Badly, but looked good.

There r pics in this thread where she looks thirty.

This is her on Family Ties, when she was around 21 years old—part of it is the hair and outfit, but even still, she looks like's around 30 to me.

She partied a lot in her 20s - that could be a factor.

Back in the in the early 90's when I was new to Los Angeles (still here), I joined a playwriting/performance workshop in which Justine Bateman (not a member of the workshop) performed in the staged reading of a lesbian-themed ensemble play that took place in a dyke bar. From the moment she took the stage she was a commanding presence and a total pro. Very impressive. Although I know next to nothing about her and never watched her big sitcom, I get the impression that she might have fit much better in an East Coast academic setting than Hollywood. She seems like she doesn't belong in Hollywood but is stuck in it.

From reading her Twitter, she is definitively smart and opionated.

What she talks about and has talked about several times is how she's constantly told/asked why she doesn't look exactly like she did 25-30 years ago

DL cunts just proving her point

She looked great on Family Ties. It's hard to age in public when you were once considered a sex symbol.

If I had to guess, I'd say she's a lesbian.

She looks like she teaches pottery at a community center.

She looks like that creature Melissa Gilbert is (or was, I don't know) married to. That thick dark eyeliner does her no favors. She looks like an aging gypsy.

How old is this clip?

She looks like she should be swathed in fringed scarves and wearing tinkly, dangly bracelets & amulets, leading an interpretive dance class at a small art college in New Hampshire in 1975.

She's married to a dude, so not a lesbo.

That face is from decades of chronic smoking and baking in the sun. My gramma looked like that. Justine refuses to nip or tuck, because then she would be buying in to the misogyny of patriarchal Hollywood.

Joan Rivers is laughing in her grave!

[R86] Bravo! That look would be infinitely preferable to her current one. And I'm not kidding. Anything to soften her up. She has dramatic features that could work for her if she didn't compound things by looking so severe. I just realized that she very much resembles Nancy Kerrigan - same kind of face, same issues of perception. Both she and Nancy should model themselves after Charlotte Rampling - hair shorter and swept back.

She looks like a girl who was in my third grade class.

I just saw her last week.

Princess Stephanie is another one with this look...

Margaux Hemingway was another....

Maybe she’s doing a remake of Grapes of Wrath and forget to change out of make -up and costume?

This is pure speculation but Justine might have undergone a hysterectomy, which removes the ovaries, plunges estrogen levels and rapidly ages a woman. It happened to my sister when she was in her 50's and was successfully treated for ovarian cancer. There may also be smoking, alcohol and sun damage issues, but consider that they might be co-factors.

R92 for point of reference Florence Owens was 32 years old in that photograph.

Her ears are somewhat deformed. Why is she so keen to show them off?

[quote] She's married to a dude, so not a lesbo.

Well, that concludes all speculation.

Every 54 yr old female has that skin. Most interior lighting is quite dark so you don't see all the mess. An unkind Papp could easily get a very ugly candid of any female over thirty outside. If you want to look young outside have the sun streaming directly at your face with camera between you and sun. Sun washed away all the skin imperfections.

R96 every lesbian in Hollywood has been married to a man.

I agree with r14: r6 is full of bullshit. most people don't age that badly by 56.

She's probably had a hard-partying lifestyle and also probably smoked.

She looks bad for 54 even by ordinary standards. Even by flyover blue-collar standards.

Her brother is a HOMOJ

HOMO not HOMOJ

Justine and Jason can't even be in the same state without having to be physically separated by the police.

Were it not for OP's screen capture caption, I'd have otherwise assumed it showed a contemporary Margaret O'Brien or Alanis Morissette circa 2058.

What's the story with Jason an Justine? Why are they estranged?

I didn't know they were estranged either. She's probably got a fantastic book in her. Her face looks like a face that has lived, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It's interesting, lived in, has seen a lot.

Not everyone has the desire to look 30 forever, and attract what comes along with it. Some people like myself, and I'm guessing Justine, are comfortable within themselves. I have no desire to look anything but what I am. I say, good for her.

Jason seems like a total asshole.

WOW, R94. i never knew that.

Jason is fantastic in OZARK.

He should bring her on Ozark as Darlene’s older sister.

Overall she looks good considering she used to chain smoke back in the day. Not sure if she still smokes. Also she probably got too much sun exposure over the years.

Thank God I quit smoking though.

Delta Dawn

What's that flower

You have on?

Yes, she looks dreadful in op pic. It's called the hag syndrome. It starts around 25. Horrible stuff happens to women by 54. A 54 yr old guy can look quite hot still.

Calling Amanda Peet; Your future awaits you.

Justine was a big party girl in the 80s, she must've seen a ton of shit. Definitely has a book in her.

[quote]From reading her Twitter, she is definitively smart and opionated.

More like pretentious and delusional. She takes herself way too seriously. Also, she recently wrote a whole book about fame, yet hasn’t been relevant for 30 years.

[quote]Justine was a big party girl in the 80s, she must've seen a ton of shit. Definitely has a book in her.

I remember her being on Arsenio talking about how she would take trips to Brazil just to party in Rio.

Her brother’s success must kill her.

Paraphrasing, my favorite line of hers from FT was when she had to do a report on the American Revolution, and it was in full: “They wore red, we dressed casual.”

Jason dirt

She looks like hell, but so much of it is her fault...she'd look so much better with different hair and make-up. And Clothes.

Ugh. She's given up. RIP.

She's reminding me of Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry (who broke up).

She has what I think of as a very standard West Coast look. It's not unusual at all in California - too much sun, lots of drugs, probably all natural-fiber clothing - but it looks bizarre to the rest of the country, as so many of these comments indicate.

Remember someone on DL said either they or someone they knew were at some sort of gathering where she was there and she took a revolting shit💩 in the bathroom 🚽 that stunk up the whole house?! 😄

She'd be okay if she gave herself a side bang and waxed her eyebrows. Looks like she does her own makeup and badly at that.

She wrote a book a few years ago. There was a long thread on DL that was similarly cruel.

Why does she hate M. J. Fox? I find her behavior cruel.

She probably doesn't actually look good - which is fine. But, it is one picture. I've seen others and, again, while it's clear she hasn't aged well, she doesn't look as bad.

[quote]Why does she hate M. J. Fox?

She doesn't, she hates Jason Bateman and when a girl sibling hates her brother that only means one thing. The unspeakable.

Her speech seems informed by a lot of therapy of some sort, a lot of ideas that have been talked through and polished. Either that or she's had some cult experience, or just very fucking California. Frances McDormand "Laurel Canyon" vibes.

For all of that, she's oddly appealing, in part for her relaxed-don't-give-a-fuck nature. Her appearance is a bit startling, but I would say it is a curious mix of good and bad.

She looks as though she has unevenly applied bronzer and hair that's dyed too dark. I think she's just not aware of what's flattering on her and what isn't. But she doesn't look ill or like a meth addict the way some of you claim, sheesh.

Has Tina Yothers commented yet?

I didn't realize she had a falling-out with her brother. I've always liked Jason. I love him in Ozark. But after that interview for Arrested Development, where he stuck up for creep Jeffrey Tambor. He plays the Hollywood game just the rest of the robots.

Why did she and her brother have a falling out?

Being gay is stressful. How di3s entire family turn out gay unless parents gave them wrong dolls

Isn’t this clip a few years old?

Maybe she doesn't give a fuck what a bunch of geriatric homosexuals, on a gay gossip site, think about her..

She does

She's fine. That's how white women age in Hollywood without plastic surgery, fillers, or a foot of makeup.

She's fine. That's how white women age in Hollywood without plastic surgery, fillers, or a foot of makeup.

[quote]Justine Bateman looks really old

[quote]I was watching Megyn Kelly and Justine Bateman looked awful with sagging skin and deep, deep wrinkles. She's only 52. What happened? Sun? Booze? Smoking? Bad genes? This picture is flattering compared to what she looked like in motion.

Bathroom mirrors are very flattering. Low light in house helps. We rarely see what we look like in daylight so we think we are young looking and are appalled when we see others our age outside. Women are Haggard by 40.

I think smoking and suntanning did most of the damage. Probably had/has an eating disorder which wouldn't help, combined with bad styling.

I want to give her a makeover. Start with resurfacing and moisturizing the skin. Get rid of the harsh black Kohl around her eyes and give her a soft look instead. Cut that hair (French bob?) and take it to whatever the natural color is, then perhaps highlight it subtly. She would look 1000% better.

[R145] Good ideas to reform Justine's "disaster artist" look. I'm assuming that because (to my knowledge) there were never stories of Justine getting arrested, going to rehab, losing all of her money or having restraining orders against her (etc.!) that she was simply a garden variety party girl/drinker/smoker/suntanner and not a Margaux Hemingway type.

[quote]I think smoking and suntanning did most of the damage.

Americaaanss always with the smoking.

I think it's poor diet....you know like the ones the gays are all on. No carbs. No fat. No sugar. Probably works out too much.

She has ugly ears, which she makes a feature of.

She needs a fucking haircut and lessons in make-up.

I just wanna push her into a big vat of hyaluronic acid. And don't let her out until that leathery skin resembles a peach.

R144 I don’t know what your definition of haggard is but...that’s all wrong.

She displayed a flair for comedy as the dim-witted Mallory on 'Family Ties'. She worked steadily in TV after the show ended but never hit the bigtime. And hasn't worked in front of the camera in several years..

Didn’t someone post in another thread that she used to call MJF “faggot” all the time when the cameras weren’t rolling? If that’s true she got the face she deserved.

I’ve read her tweets, and I think she might be a deplorable because she keeps bitching about COVID safety restrictions and seems to think it’s not serious like a typical deplorable. Then again, I shouldn’t be that surprised considering she was on cunt Megyn Kelly’s short-lived talk show.

She must have decided to put all her effort into maintaining her body and leave her face alone. I think the wrinkles are due to sun damage. I used to hate her but now I kind of hate her less.