Nicole Kidman. Style icon ageing gracefully or a surgical homage to insecurity? You decide.


Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Lunch...minus children but still with full pap sandwich!






Hullo? Baby KUNK? Where are you? In her filofax?





Nicole Kidman has hired extra security to protect her now she's pregnant. The 40-year-old actress is said to be worried something could happen while husband Keith Urban, also 40, is away on tour. 'Nicole is a nervous wreck,' a source reveals. 'Because she's suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy in the past, she's terrified of losing her baby.' Nicole is also said to be struggling with sleep. 'She feels emotionally fragile. Her hormones are running wild and she's suffering from insomnia,' the source adds. The star has two adopted children with ex husband Tom Cruise, Isabella, 14, and Connor, 15.
Now Magazine


AUSTRALIA'S tourism industry hopes an epic love story filmed in the outback will be the shot in the arm needed to boost visitor numbers Down Under.
Tourism Australia managing director Geoff Buckley today said millions would be drawn to cinemas for the expected November release of Baz Luhrmann's movie Australia - which in essence would be an extended advertisement for the country.
The industry also hopes to gain from an aggressive marketing campaign planned to coincide with the film's release.
The romantic outback epic centres on Lady Sarah, played by Aussie golden girl Nicole Kidman, who becomes the owner of a cattle station before World War II. She enlists the help of a "rough-hewn" drover, Hugh Jackman, in a fight against cattle barons who plot to take over her land.
The pair drive 2000 head of cattle across the Top End and get caught in the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
Mr Buckley said it was hoped the buzz generated by the multi-million dollar movie would help the industry overcome some of the pressures being felt by a strong Aussie dollar and tough competition from other destinations.
news.com.au


Nicole Kidman and hubby Keith Urban ( is that the county singer?) enjoyed a relaxing day at the facilities at The Bondi Icebergs on Tuesday (March 25).
Taking in the panoramic view of Bondi Beach from the inside of what’s the only licensed swimming club in the world, Nicole looked happy to be getting a little R&R after a busy Easter weekend.

In related news, rumor has it that Nicole has beefed up her security squad to protect her now that she’s pregnant.
Although these are unsubstantiated claims, the 40-year-old screen star is said to be worried that something could happen while Keith is away on tour.
“Nicole is a nervous wreck,” a source told press. “Because she’s suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy in the past, she’s terrified of losing her baby.”

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Even though Kidman claims, in the current issue of Marie Claire, that she is "completely natural," there's no way around the question: What has she done to her face? The question of actors (men and women) and plastic surgery is a delicate one, but at this point, it's disingenuous to pretend not to notice any change. Kidman's skin is, without a doubt, beautiful. But it has turned into her greatest limitation, a boundary beyond which she can't stretch. In one scene, the camera lingers on her face (she's gotten herself into a situation that she can't get out of) and we're left to concentrate, for too long, on the great effort it takes her to furrow her brow. She finally comes up with something -- two smooth little bumps between her eyebrows -- but the effort it cost her just couldn't have been worth it--Stephanie Zarachek
Do we really live in a world where if I question what someone says or cast doubt upon their motivations, it automatically means I hate them?

Life just isn't that black and white.

If I choose to see the joke in the lunacy of fame, how does this equate with envy? Make up your own mind, either way don't mistake mine.
"At first I didn't recognize Nicole Kidman in Margot at the Wedding, and not just because of what appear to be alterations in the planes of her chiseled face. No, the Kidman who plays the title role in Noah Baumbach's follow-up to The Squid and the Whale — another pleasurable/painful thumb-press on the bruises of family dynamics, in what's fast becoming identifiable as the Baumbach Maneuver — gives herself fully to playing a woman of weirdly thrilling neuroses". Gee, you sure she was acting?

Lisa Schwarzbaum E.W.com

Plasticopedia"s list of Nicole"s surgery addiction.

Nicole Kidman had a rhinoplasty, lip augmentation, and is a frequent user of Botox injections to keep her porcelaine, wrinkle-free skin intact. Nicole Kidman's new nose has been reshaped as it is more defined, the tip is retracted and shorter, and the nostrils are smaller than her old nose.
Nicole Kidman’s fondness for plastic surgery has not stopped at a nose job, as she is known to have had Botox injections on numerous occassions and lip augmentation via injectible fillers such as Restylane or Juvederm. Kidman’s repeated use of Botox has led to her having an expressionless, frigid look in some public appearances and has caused some critics to accuse her of having a "Botox brow", which leads to an excessively arched eyebrow which can make the person look angry.
At the 2007 Oscars, it has been speculated that in addition to having lip augmentation for the event, Nicole Kidman may have gotten a breast augmentation in the recent past, as her bust seems to have grown. Nicole’s somewhat bustier appearance lead some to speculate that she might very likely had a breast augmentation in the recent past. Being that Nicole’s previous red carpet appearances showed a rather “boyish” flat chest, her recent appearances in more busty dresses indicate that breast implants might be in the mix. “She appears to have possibly had a breast augmentation. Her breasts remain in proportion to her figure though, and if done, appears to have been a very nice job,” said fellow Make Me Heal Oscars Coverage member plastic surgeon Anthony Youn. Beyond the mystery around her lack of wrinkles is the absence of any slack skin, sagging jowls around her jawline, or any loss of tautness in Kidman’s neck. While it is unlikely that the actress had a face lift or even a mini facelift, it is quite likely that Kidman partakes in many non-surgical facial procedures such as chemical peels, laser skin resurfacing, and possibly thermage or other new age laser procedure. Whether Kidman has had further body work such as liposuction is unknown, but as a couture devotee it's likely.
http://education.makemeheal.com/index.php/Kidman,_Nicole