Just two months ago, Simone Biles answered fan questions about her breast work and opened up about getting eyelid surgery. Before that, Kylie Jenner revealed the exact recipe for her own implants, while details of her mother Kris’ facelift had everyone praising her surgeon, Dr Steven Levine. Jennifer Lawrence said a while ago that she is looking forward to getting a facelift herself in the future. It seems we’re in an era of radical honesty when it comes to celebrity beauty treatments — but only among women. Sure, a handful of famous men have gone the aesthetic transparency route, but A-listers like Bradley Cooper aren’t rising to the occasion just yet.
After months of speculation surrounding what internet commentators called his “new face,” rumors of the actor’s appearance have finally been addressed — though not by Cooper himself. During his appearance on January 5 at SmartLessa podcast hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, Arnett said he was asked several times during the press tour Is this the thing? to mention something people don’t know about Cooper (the director and one of his co-stars on the film). But instead of sharing a random fact about his favorite food or what he likes to do off-set, Arnett decided to address Cooper’s plastic surgery gossip: “We keep reading [that] Everyone thinks Bradley had plastic surgery… What people don’t know is that he hasn’t,” she said.
While Cooper laughed and said strangers have been coming up to him to tell him he “looks good” lately, he didn’t specifically address the plastic surgery speculation. Still, Arnett responded that the “bullshit” rumors made him furious. “People say it all the time and it’s a hilarious thing,” he said. “Everybody thinks they know.”
I mean, he’s right. Host surgeons and random civilians on social media they have speculations that Cooper may have had upper eyelid surgery, a lower face and neck lift, hair transplants and laser treatments. According to Arnett, rumors like these should be taken with a healthy dose of salt, and we can never know for sure exactly what a celebrity is doing without acknowledging them or their doctors—but these rumors didn’t come out of nowhere. After emerging late last year with a noticeably brighter complexion and seemingly tighter skin around his eyes, it’s hard to accept a claim that he had zero work done when the masses can collectively say so something has changed.
While I don’t think celebrities owe us an exhaustive explanation of their cosmetic choices, Cooper coming clean about his treatments could open the door for even more men to open up about the pressures they face to stay young and hot. As it stands, the notion of male vanity still carries a number of very real (and often homophobic/misogynistic) taboos that, to be perfectly honest, we could not handle. And, let’s be real – if women are expected to share every detail of their aesthetic maintenance down to their cup size, it would be nice if men could give the masses the same honesty. At the very least, they could admit they love a good facial.
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