And no, that’s not a rhetorical question. I am unsure of whether Meg Ryan is doing fillers and injections, or whether her face is this puffy and tight because she’s post-surgery. Look at her eyes – you can barely see them! She’s so puffy and squinty, she looks ridiculous.
I think it was back in 2006/2007 when Meg Ryan appeared at a film festival with her first big jacked face. Back then, the most noticeable thing about her transformation was her hideously larger lips. At this point, I wish we only had to worry about her lips. Whoever is Meg’s plastic surgeon or whatever… whoever is doing this to her – do you honestly think you’re making her look better? Is this the look she’s going for, and you just can’t say no to her?
I think what’s particularly sad is that I always believed Meg, back in the day, when she claimed she didn’t want to be known as the cutesy rom-com girl. She tried to be an authentic dramatic actress – she tried to rely on her acting talent, not her “cuteness.” And now it just seems like she would give anything to just be “cute” again, and she’s forgotten all about wanting to be a real actress.
Speaking of real actresses, look how awesome Holly Hunter looked at the same event for the opening of the new opera season… Holly is the best!
Meg in NYC on Sept. 27, 2010. Credit: WENN.
It is really really sad there were few actresses prettier then Meg Ryan back in the day. And she did try to be a real actress she was just too adorable to be believable in her dramatic roles.
All I see is someone who I thought was at least 60 with a new face lift.
But no it is Meg with new botox.
That is a tragic look on all levels.
Her skin looks really nice… so why is she screwing with the botox and fillers?
I just never would have thought of her being so vain to mess with her face.
And if she is… why not ask for the name of the surgeon that just did Courtney Love’s new face. I am sure Courtney has his name on speed dial.
give her a break. if she looked like Linda Hamilton at this point – with wrinkles, that fit to her years – you would write how Meg Ryan did nothing for her beauty, how she smoked and was too much in the sun. i fear that acresses that get older in hollywood just CAN’T make it right whatever they do… only maybe if they magically stopped aging…
Meg looks ridiculous, her cheeks are so puffed up, it’s a wonder she can even see. But I LOVE Holly Hunter!
Oh, Meg…..
IDK if it’s new junk in the face or it was tweaked again or what…just so sad and unfortunate looking. I have to believe that celebs with lots of $$$ generally choose to look the way they look. They have enough $$$ and connections to get into the absolute best doctors so there is no excuse for looking like this, other than it is her choice.
Again, just sad and unfortunate.
Holly Hunter looks jacked to me too! It’s not as bad as Meg, but she had something done definitely
ugh. imagining this face doing the famous scene from ‘when harry met sally.’ ugh to infinity.
holly hunt is great and she seems to have left her face alone or at least has been light with any work… which looks great too.
Holly looks like she’s had a little basic “maintenance” and she looks good, but Meg Ryan’s face leaves me at a loss for words.
hh does look good…way more natural than meg.
Having been raised by an alcoholic, I thought Meg Ryan was very believable in When a Man Loves a Woman, but something happened to her during her divorce from Dennis Quaid and affair with Russell Crowe. She went nuts, and instead of coming across as an accomplished actress with a lot of self confidence, like she did back in the day (although it all could’ve easily been a facade), she now seems like a battered woman who doesn’t know who she is or what she wants to do with life.
She doesn’t look Asian. She looks like The Grinch!
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=the+grinch&wrapid=tlif12856784816782&um=1&biw=1259&bih=760&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw
Whatever Meg is trying to achieve with this, I don’t know.
What I do know is that she’s no longer cute.
I’m glad though she didn’t opt for duckbill-style lips in addition to whatever procedures she had done.
Meg looks exactly like the version of the Grinch played by Jim Carrey. Poor thing, it’s sad that you are so insecure you can’t stop changing yourself.
@wait.what – you beat me to it! I thought the same exact thing obviously. lol
This is sad. I remember her as cute and charming on As The World Turns.
At the risk of getting too analytical here, I’ll mention another layer of sadness.
That is Meg’s longtime estrangement from her mother.
But if you’ve ever seen pictures of her mother, it seems that the more Meg tinkers with her face, the more she looks like the mother she’s spent most of her adult life running from.
Tess: Where can you go to see a pic of her mom? I’m curious. Also, agree that while Meg could have touched up her face, she went too far. Now she looks like a Joan Rivers disciple.
If you can get away with it I see no harm in a little Botox. Her forehead is really smooth. I think you are paying too many comparisons to her former self, everyone gets older, she is nearly 50!!
@Tess she was great on As the World Turns you could tell she would become a star.
Oh, that reminds me, I need to buy a pumpkin for Halloween.
Definately over filling. Ridiculous. The most beautiful women tend to be those who age naturally or do very minimal work.
I like Meg Ryan, but that grin makes her look like The Joker with all the chemical fillers she uses.
I just don’t know….Meg is starting to look like that catwowman from NYC that’s had way too much done. Does she not have any friends or a mirror? Or does everyone in LaLa land all live in denile.
Oh.My.God.
This is some tremendous joke.
Her face I mean.. How the hell can she walks away out in the open air like that?
She’s not even recognizable anymore.
I agree with @Raven. The next Batman sequel has its new Joker.
HOly crap…that is just wrong! I would never step out of the house looking like that…and I have a black eye right now from a freak gym accident and have no problems walking around with it! That is BAD. Poor Meg.
@ Eileen-Please tell me you didn’t fall off the treadmill. That is one of my biggest fears (*shivers*).
You should tell everyone you were in a barfight! 🙂
Oh My, not a good look at all
She’s morphed into Nicole Kidman.
Cut Meg some slack. She’s not trying to play the cutesy roles anymore. She seems to be keeping a pretty low profile, raising her daughter…it’s her deal if she wants to inject her face with fillers.
Yuk!
What are all the pics of Joan Rivers doing in a Meg Ryan post? Oh..THAT’S Meg Ryan!!?? First place in the Science Fair Ryan.
Everytime I see her smile I can’t help but think of the Joker in Batman.
@Kitten: Not the treadmill but I freak out about falling off it too! I was in a cardio step class and we do weight training at the end of it -I had a little 5 lb weight in my hands and reached up to pull a hair out of my face and the weight just barely tapped right under my eye and it burst a blood vessel! I had this huge purple bulge under my eye, I ran out of the class and almost passed out. They called the ambulance and fire dept as I lay in the middle of this GIANT freaking gym that is the size of a shopping mall. Slightly embarrassing! Doc said I just tapped it in the perfect place where there isn’t any fat-just skin and bone. Now I have a HUGE shiner and blurred sight. Unfreakingbelievable!
It’s the cheek implants that make her look bad. I mean, sure she’s got a cute little body for a 49 year old. But she’s messed up her face w/ botox, lip injections, a nose job and those pillow-cheek implants.
It’s sad. She was one of the hottest actresses around before she started “tinkering” with her face. It started around the time of her divorce & Russell’s return to his girlfriend (now wife).
Holly looks good. Are they the same age?
@ Eileen: Holy crap, that is unreal! “Freak accident” is right. I do weight-training 3X a week in class setting and with all the equipment everywhere I’m always scared I’ll get hit by a weight/drop a weight/drop a weight on someone. Sorry it happened to you but I’m glad it wasn’t worse! 🙂
meg looks awful. she’ll be entering jocelyn wildstein (sp?) territory soon. it’s one thing to get work done (i am convinced every single person in hollywood has had something done)but when you are virtually unrecognizable it’s time to stop.
holly looks good, although i would like to see her with about 10 pounds. she looks a bit tough these days. i love that necklace she’s wearing.
I thought I was the only one who got a black eye from the gym!!! I got hit on my brow bone by a swinging bar…….twice.On different days!
Holly Hunter has had something done. She looks great.
I hope that Meg finds her true identity, because I think she’s quite a strong and intelligent person. She seems hideously insecure about her looks, and I don’t get it.
Holly Hunter = Natural, and has always been radically herself.
This post makes me sad. Meg has really ruined her face. 🙁
Courtney Cox and co, this could be your future if you don’t stop messing with your faces now!
WHY? WHY? WHY? I dont understand what warped mirror these women are looking in after they get so over filled, botoxed and pulled that they actually think it looks good! She looks like a wax figure of the joker for goodness sakes!
Holly looks ok but is also botoxed for sure. She just has good dr. and didnt overdo it.
I think Meg left Dennis because Randy wanted to move in. What happened to her? And what happened Jada? Don’t people have enough money to stay home and enjoy? I can’t WAIT to see Katie H. after her first MAJOR Plastic Event (though she is married to a major Plastic Event currently…)
@ eileen: i feel your pain re: freak accidents; they are the story of my life! one night i was using a big knife to open a package of cheese. my hands were wet, the knife slipped, and the knife point nicked the lens of my glasses, right in the center. i was so thankful to be a four-eyes, otherwise i would have nicked my eye.
so, here’s a helpful kitchen tip: never handle a knife with wet hands. read it, learn it, live it.
Meg Ryan used to be so cute.
She has definitely overdone it with the botox or implants. I don’t know who reminds me more of the Joker, her or Cameron Diaz… that being said, I agree with the poster who said that she’ll never win whatever she does. I guess that’s the flip-side to being cute-beautiful.
Holly Hunter looks good, but she does look like someone who exercises constantly. Relax a bit Holly, you looked so good a little fuller, ca. Broadcast News!
Meg Ryan said she’d never get plastic surgery!
If anyone can find the October 1997 issue of In Style (seen here: http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/photos/0,,20310485_20304335_20669101,00.html), there’s an interview with Meg Ryan and she says something like…
‘I’d never get plastic surgery because what if my face didn’t move the same way anymore, the way I wanted it to…?’
Please don’t ask me how I remember this…
Thanks Celebitchy. I thought the same thing. Holly’s doesn’t look overdone but she looks ‘done’.
She has a beautiful smile 😉 !
I think Meg Ryan looks pretty! I’ve always thought Holly Hunter looked a bit rough. Look at those arms and that horse face. She looks like she just stepped off the Tranny Train express from Tranny Town, Transylvania.
@ICYNDICEY are you visually impaired? I rather look like Holly than Meg anytime of the day. Meg looks absolutely disgusting. I can’t eat and look at that putrid face. Meg, Joan Rivers, and all the other plastic surgery nightmares need to go back to Fugly Island.
Why can’t people just age naturally?
What are they afraid of?
#50Icyndicey: Can you please explain how someone looks like a tranny? I hate, absolutely hate, this new description that has been laid upon women. (I think I might look like a tranny, lol). I know a trans-gendered person and he doesn’t think I look like a tranny. He doesn’t even use that language to describe how someone looks. I just want to understand why someone uses “tranny” to describe a look.