Did you know that Julia Roberts is Lancôme’s “global ambassador”? Yeah, I think I read that a while ago and had forgotten it. How weird is that? I mean, I used to think Julia was really lovely. She’s still a very striking woman, but the past few years something has been off. I think she got her eyes done, and the last time she was on Oprah, she looked like she had just been majorly “refreshed”. I’m sure that her fans will think I’m a hater or whatever (she does pluck my last nerve, so they have a point), but I’m honestly not trying to be nasty – I honestly think she’s had work done to her face. Which, having that opinion, made me laugh when I read Julia’s statements to Women’s Wear Daily (full article here, and be careful, it’s quite a lot of Julia) about how her beautifying rituals came to “a screeching halt” when she became a mom:
On becoming Lancome’s global ambassador: “I think I have to stand up straighter and wash my face more. It’s kind of like every girl’s dream, really. To be 42 and have three kids and be a working mom, it’s a great moment to be asked to do this and to be able to do it. I think it says a lot about Lancôme and what they stand for.”
Julia on how this lets her have a “voice”: “[Youcef Nabi, Lancome‘s president] and I had such an immediate rapport the first time we met,” she said. “You really want to have a relationship where you don’t just want to be the face of something. You want to participate in it, and you want to have a voice in it. I still have to be myself.”
On sitting next to Paul McCartney at the Globes: As soon as Sir Paul McCartney sat down at the table next to Roberts, her phone began chiming. “It was so embarrassing,” she said. “It just started going ‘ding, ding.’” Roberts said people sent her messages like, “OMG I can’t believe you’re sitting next to Paul McCartney.”
On her next starring role, in Eat, Pray, Love: “It was quite a huge undertaking. It was a little bit daunting, dragging three little kids around the world, but well worth it,” said Roberts, referring to her three children, the oldest of whom are five-year-old twins.
On playing the main character, a woman struggling after her divorce: “I think that she just showed so much courage and humor. I just felt an incredible sense of need to accomplish the task on a great level. Ryan Murphy, who adapted the screenplay and was our director, was incredible. It was really like the acting Olympics. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a full-time acting job. I am really glad that I made the decision to go off and do that movie. I hope that Liz [Gilbert] really likes it more than anything. She’s a really interesting woman. I’m pretty fascinated by her, and I think a lot of people relate to her. So that’s the greatest challenge [with] a book that’s so well-known: You want people to see the movie and have that same sense of interest and comfort that they got from reading the book.”
On not wanting to meet Eat, Pray, Love’s author Elizabeth Gilbert: “I didn’t want to be overly influenced. She’s such an incandescent personality. I’ve seen her on television, and I’ve heard her on the radio and so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be objective.’ I wanted to at least start the movie before I met her. We were a few weeks into filming when I met her and her husband, and she was exactly what I wanted her to be.”
On her other movie, Valentine’s Day: “This movie is just about people loving each other and missing out and getting it right, and it’s pretty incredible.”
Picking her favorite movie (that she‘s acted in): “[It] is like picking your favorite friend; it’s impossible,” she said. “There are different reasons to love them. Obviously, ‘Pretty Woman’ had a profound effect on my life, so I have an incredible affection for that movie. ‘Pelican Brief’ was another really profound moment for me and my relationship with Alan Pakula is a treasure. ‘Erin Brockovich’ for obvious reasons and then just my own personal reason is so incredible. I met my husband while making ‘The Mexican.’”
On how the industry has changed: “There’s just news and fodder and gossip just sort of churned out every second of the day, so in that regard, it’s gotten a little less interesting,” she said. “Things aren’t allowed to take their time and to blossom and to happen the way they used to. I think it’s so much harder to really start out now than it was when I started.”
On the perks of working for Lancome: “I get all these things to play with and test and give my opinion about. And it’s quite exciting without having to invest all of myself in how I look because they did come to me as me, which is a pretty casual mom. But you know, it’s nice to up your game a little bit.”
On her beauty regimen: When asked how having children has changed her beauty regimen, Roberts said, “It kind of comes to a screeching halt. At a certain point in the future, I’ll pick it back up again. I think the nice thing about getting older is it forces you in a way to take a greater interest in your [beauty] regime. And so it’s a good moment for me to join forces with people who can help me.”
[From Women’s Wear Daily]
WWD also says that though the official number hasn’t been publicized, Julia is probably getting something like $10-15 million for this contract. So, if you want to look like Julia, buy Lancome. It also made me laugh when Julia described Elizabeth Gilbert as “an incandescent personality”. I’ve seen Gilbert in interviews (try this video of her giving a speech) and she seems really boring and full of herself. Methinks Julia wants to be seen as an “incandescent personality” too, especially since she’s playing Gilbert.
Julia Roberts at the Globes, on January 17, 2010. Credit: WENN.
Nothing this woman can do can make her even passably attractive to me. I find her to be disgustingly ugly both inside and out, and she is so smarmy and pretentious that it makes me want to puke. I liked it better before when she kinda disappeared for a while, why did she have to bring her horse face and massive Joker mouth back? To torture the world? Like we don’t have enough problems. LOL though I just figured out why she has such a big mouth…because it’s gotta be big to put that gigantic clodhopper foot of hers in it like she always does when she opens that gaping maw….GOD I HATE HER!
Bo to the Tox, who needs a beauty regimen?
Nevermind using that makeup to look like Julia.
Just hook the corners of your mouth to the bumpers of 2 cars going east and west while your nostrils are hooked to a car going north -w/ no screeching halts … all while being boringly full of yourself and/or drunk.
That ought to do it.
What is going on with her right (left on her) leg in that bottom photo, it looks really odd just above the knee. Maybe it is the angle.
When I first skimmed this I thought it said she was playing Melissa Gilbert 🙂 I was seriously confused.
LMAO @ “Bo to the Tox”
Love the colour of her eyes and think she at least does not wear little silly dresses like JLo (who has stumpy short legs and looks weird in them).
Good that her arms are covered though so we do not yet need to find out whether she re-discovered razor – blades for her armpits :-).
She’s got another movie coming out this fall – “Secretariat.” She stars opposite the lovely Diane Lane.
What is Lancome paying her to do, exactly? A woman who claims she has no beauty regime, and I’ve never seen ads or anything with her in them. Weird.
She’s looked pretty much the same for the past few years. If she’s had something done, it was very subtle and done well.
popcorny – i think i love you! LMAO.
Would her eyes be considered Brown or Hazel? They are more golden than brown in my opinion…
And she probably thinks that wet mop hairstyle she wore at the Golden Globes looked fabulous.
lucy2 – The WWD article said that Julia’s Lancome ads will be coming out this year – internationally first, then in the US over the summer. Print ads and commercials.
LOL benny I bet she’s playing Secretariat himself, right? God, she is so arrogant that she can’t even play a broken down old nag (which would be believable), she’s gotta play the Triple Crown winner himself! Jeez, what a PITA.
coucou :notworthy: :notworth: :notworthy:
She’s so right “screeching halt”
Birdie, that colour would be witch hazel on her. Her brother is the talent in that family.
@popcorny: ha ha ha ha!
Eric Roberts got ALL the looks and talent in this family.
I think this is a good photo of her, but I wish she would return to her chestnut brown hair, which was gorgeous. I do agree that on TV she looks a little “off” like something is different and not in a good way.
i loove her
she is still a major beauty
can’t wait for eat pray love
Eat Pray Love was such an annoying book, and the author came across as incredibly self absorbed -perfect vehicle for Julia Roberts.
Tsk. So many haters. Love Julia. I think her eyes look amber in the top photo, really beautiful. And her knee does look weird, like someone photoshopped her right there to slim it or something. (she’s already spindly-legged so there’s no need for that)
If Eric’s got all the ‘talent’ in the family why hasn’t all that talent been utilized? Hmmmm….could it be his sparkling personality? (of which Julia has purportedly plenty of, making her the one more directors/etc likely want to work with, er, for the fem roles anyway).
i don’t think she has had botox. she looks natural and actually very pretty. at least, she doesn’t look like her face has been stuffed with cotton like madonna and the desperate housewives chicks. good choice for lancome. also, i want to see her in a good, non-chilly bitch role. eat pray love would be exciting to see. i’m so sick of seeing these young newbies with no talent flooding the multiplexes every week. we need a real moviestar to show us what we’re missing
Woo! Glad I’m not the only one that didn’t like the book and was irritated by the author. Well, I veered from liking some things to wanting to punch her…mostly for her self-absorbed, status-y self. Very much like the lifestyle and views of a priviledged white woman. I’m dying to know what her ex-husband’s book will be like. I think it’s supposed to come out some time this year.
I heard about this book.It did very well in the UK.I tried to buy it at Heathrow airport but I read a review in the Times and The Times in short thought the book was chit. So,I didn’t get it.
I used to love Julia especially Pretty Woman and Steel M…however, since the GG it seems all the stories I heard about her and the BVs are true. That’s really sad.
Interesting about Eric Roberts being all the talents and the looks of the family. Eric Roberts can knock on my Door any day. I heard he was Black Balled in HW. Does anyone know why ? Kaiser any insight
I also think Julia Roberts has had some work done. And, I also think Elizabeth Gilbert is boring and full of herself! I finally broke down and read Eat, Pray, Love last weekend and the only thing about it I liked was that it was easy to read quickly, so I didn’t waste much time on it. I kept hoping it would get better, but it didn’t.
julia looks naturally pretty and very lovely. if she has had work done, it would have been minimal because she looks like she has aged but nicely and does not look weird.
i cannot wait for EPL. i think she would win an oscar for it.
i’m so sick of sandra bullock, by the way. i know she’s not part of the discussion. but talk about getting work done, that b–tch can’t even move her eyebrows and looks like an otter. also she cannot act. always plays herself more than julia roberts does.
Collapsed nostrils = too much cocaine.
Lay off the fairy dust, Jules.
I totally get that filming The Mexican must have been a wonderful experience for Julia; but it almost embarrasses me to hear her say it, when the whole world knows that’s where she and her husband both worked together to finish off his first marriage and humiliate his wife.
I can’t even talk about Eat, Pray, Love without getting a rash. It was such a self-absorbed excuse for a book.
@Granger: Yeah, she pre-Angelina’d AJ. It’s a Hollywood epidemic.
Tenderness, what an apropos name. You don’t think Sandra looks like she otter?
Anyways, about brother Eric, He had or has a substance abuse problem of some type or another. His career and daughter suffered due to it. If I recall correctly. I always liked the tough edgy, slightly crazy characters he was cast as. He was also a buff little bitch for most of his career.
I always contended that anyone could have played the hooker with the heart of gold that Julia played in Pretty Woman. Heck that was the theme of soooo many 80’s movies. She was allegedly America’s sweetheart for awhile. What the hell so was Sally Fields for a time, so what. This post is longer than my personal rules allow so in summation, she’s a mouthy, know it all, low class, husband stealing Ho from Smyrna Ga. and her mouth would look better with a hook in it.
angelina broke a happily married couple. julia came to the picture when dan was already in the process of getting a divorce. then his materialistic wife probably tried to get money from julia, the riiich moviestar.
anyway, julia looks fab as always. she looks every bit her age but she makes 42 a good age. she looks mature and elegant unlike so many bitches in hollywood.
THE MOST annoying woman in Hollywood.
She has this horrible smile that looks like it begins and ends at the back of her head, with floppy lips, and those Grand Canyon nostrils that are almost as big as Uma Thurman’s (almost).
I’m sure she has had work done. She looks different. I also think she looks better than she used to. Who knows what she had done, but she better. That hair color and style don’t look on her at all.
What was she trying to prove to the world by constantly exposing us to her hairy armpits? Why? Maybe she was trying to show how cool and avant-garde she is.
Her brother USED to be extremely handsome, and I think he showed her the ropes. She paid him back by rejecting him, and not helping him out. What a weasel.
stop bringing up the past. julia and eric are in good terms now. julia even helps out and has always loved emma r, eric’s daughter. and look, eric made negative remarks about her first and he was on drugs so julia couldn’t really totally be close to him or else, she will self destruct as well. so stop it. it’s the past. eric is getting well and getting roles and julia is happy with her kids.
she looks good. i cannot wait for eat pray love.
I buy Lancome products and I am seriously considering stopping while Julia is their ambassador. They should have picked some incredibly beautiful and classy French woman, not some horse with highlights. Very disappointing Lancome!
Does anyone know of a good replacement for Definicils?? It’s the best!
@ spicegurl
“so stop it. it’s the past.”
Are you the commander here? Why are you getting in the way of letting people express themselves freely? What are you? The president of the ethics board for this website?
I love this woman..Each time i see Julia’s face, i smile. She is so funny, natural and down to earth.