Nicole Kidman in a high-neck blouse: totally ’80s or totally cute?

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These are some new photos of Keith Urban getting a star on the “Music City Walk of Fame” in Nashville yesterday. His wife Nicole Kidman was in attendance, of course. And she was really animated too! She even forced his BotoxFace into a contortion of laughter and pride. That’s about it for the photos, I guess. I mean, that’s all of the “news”. Although I would like to say a few things, of course.

First of all: has anyone else noticed Nicole’s latest style “trend”? She’s been dressing very, very matronly lately, but it’s a unique kind of matronly. If you saw her clothes on a 60 year old, you would be like “Yeah, that makes sense.” But on Nicole, it seems like her high-neck collars and fussy lace details and everything prim and proper… it all seems rather… I don’t know, like she’s trying to do the “sexy librarian” thing. Only I’m pretty sure she’s not really trying to look like some fetishized “librarian” I think Nicole just thinks she looks awesome. The high-neck collar on her blouse is giving me some kind of 1980s flashback. That kind of blouse was the height of ladies’ professional attire circa 1983.

What else did I want to talk about? I guess her BotoxFace, but I was so overcome by the collar I kind of forgot. My favorite photos are the ones where she’s giving that big black guy a “WTF?” look (not really, but the angle suggests it), and the one where she’s laughing and it looks really, really painful. Oh, I love this one too:

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Photos courtesy of Fame.

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  1. someone says:

    she looks lovely and happy…

  2. Ell says:

    She used to be so beautiful, her face is scaring me in those pics.

  3. Ron says:

    meh

  4. dread pirate cuervo says:

    Totally 80’s AND totally cute! She still needs to go a few shades darker with her hair.

  5. brin says:

    Looks like he just brought the little woman in to the big city from their farm way yonder.

  6. Lynda says:

    she looks pretty good…

  7. searching4grace says:

    I wasn’t able to get below staring at her upper lip to stare at the shirt.

  8. Victoire says:

    She looks OK, I like what she’s wearing. As long as she’s happy everything is fine 😉

  9. Judy says:

    ICK

  10. sharylmj says:

    I think she looks proud and happy 🙂 I’m glad these two seem to be doing really well… I love this couple

  11. Solveig says:

    Those lips… 😐

  12. TurquoiseBlue says:

    I can’t get beyond her face to see her shirt. Her expressions in every single picture are so strange – like she can’t emote at all now without pain since she’s had so much botox. Her face looks so pulled and tight. How can she possibly think this is a good idea, and why isn’t her husband saying something?

  13. Belle Epoch says:

    Ew! Can’t understand what people see in her. Not pretty, not sexy, not a great actress, and doesn’t even seem nice. A giant pale doll to dress up in Barbie clothes.

    The #6 picture is amazing, where the guy on the left is really SMILING with WRINKLES and Nicole’s face won’t move more than opening her mouth a little. There are some small bunny rabbit wrinkles, probably because the only facial area left that you can’t botox is directly beneath your eyes.

    Every time you get botox there is a chance it will leak into surrounding tissues and unexpected muscles (like an eyelid) won’t work for the next 3 months.

  14. Annie says:

    Her top lip looks like a stuffed sausage. Gross.

  15. RHONYC says:

    so, she had a bad hair & outfit day, big whup.

    her most important & best accessory was her heartfelt smiles of pride she gave to Keith. sweet.

    good for them. 😉

  16. Slim Charles says:

    @Turquoise Blue yes, her face is just mesmerizing. I am LOL at these shots – thanks for posting – the one with buck teeth is hilarious!

    I think she just got a shot in her upper lip for this event. I’ve never seen it look so wonky and unuseable.

    God, I wish he would man up! I can’t stand the tan, the flat-ironed hair, the highlights.

  17. lucy2 says:

    It’s alright, not horrible.
    She is making some funny faces in those photos. At one point I think she was really gorgeous, it’s a shame she got work done (and continues to apparently).

    I think she’s a good actor who did a string of bad movies. I do want to see Rabbit Hole, but it looks really depressing.

  18. Praise St. Angie! says:

    GAH! THE UPPER LIP!!!

    “She used to be so beautiful, her face is scaring me in those pics.”

    THIS, exactly!

  19. Mary Jane says:

    Keith always has the WORST hair… and that “soul” (yeah, right) patch, egads!

  20. Kasey says:

    Kaiser, you need to be told that you are SO wrong for using that 2nd freaky-looking picture in the post link on the main page! Just wrong! I didn’t really care about the post but the pic cracked me up so much I had to click and see the full deal, thus perpetuating and encouraging your wrongness!

    Anyway, its so sad, I was just commenting on how I think Jennifer Aniston has just really gone from not at all attractive in her earlier, younger years to me to sometimes stunning now. Then I pop on over here and can’t help but think that Nicole K has not allowed herself to age well at all. That top lip! Yeeshh! When you get the lip done and it wears off does it not go back to normal? Is that why it ALWAYS looks like that now? Aniston needs to share her secret to aging fabulously ’cause this chick needs some schooling!

  21. Hanh says:

    She should have kept the coat on because otherwise its totally ugly and not flattering on her. What is she trying to hide with her crazy styling?

  22. skinanny says:

    Those lips….ugh

  23. haaa says:

    Tom enjoyed her at her most stunning best, while poor Keith is left with nothing.

  24. Grace says:

    My Grandmother was a realtor in the 80s and she dressed a lot like that, and she was in her early 60s at the time. So I would definitely have to agree with this article, totally 80s and definitely something a much older person would wear.

    And while we’re on the subject of style, let’s talk about Keith. His style is frozen in time as well. He looks like he’s trying to dress like a 25-year-old surfer from the early 90s. And it needs to stop.

  25. Rosanna says:

    Nicole Kidman aka a wonderfully talented gorgeous woman with a BAD sense for fashion!

  26. joji says:

    poor thing. she’s trying so hard to move her face. it looks like she and keith could use less product and more shampoo.

  27. joji says:

    p,s, kasey i agree with your aniston comparison.

  28. Annie says:

    @13 – yeah you can’t botox anywhere too near the inner eye corners because it can cause the tear ducts to stop working (similar to how botox works to stop sweating) – hence the only wrinkles she has are along the sides of her nose. I know she probably won’t stop with the botox (pretty much every woman in Hollyweird over 25 botoxes, sad but true) but I wish at least she’d lay off her lips. Her face suits thin lips so much better.

    Her style here though – I happen to really like it. Overall she looks good.

  29. DGO says:

    Her eyes look all sorts of crazy.

  30. jane16 says:

    I’ve been saying here for months that 80’s styles are coming back. Another 80’s look I’m seeing is big, longer jackets and straight just above the knee skirts. I don’t mind if the best of the 80s returns. Frankly, I’m tired of looking at slutwear (clothes that look like they’re spray painted on, jeans so low that 2 inches of butt crack are showing, etc) brought to glorious heights by the kartrashians and their ilk.

  31. Madison says:

    That is the face of a 43 year old woman whose had a lot of comestic procedures. She looks awful, the fillers and botox have really messed up her face.

  32. Esmom says:

    She was once so naturally beautiful. I can imagine her sweating buckets underneath that coat from all the effort required to move her face. Shudder.

  33. Lisa says:

    I think her face looks better in the sense that it can show expression again, and I think she’s probably in a sort of awkward wearing off stage … We’ve all had the awkward bangs growing out stage, and I bet Botox takes a while to wear off, and that’s what we’re seeing now. Considering how much she used and for how long, it’s going to take a WHILE to wear off entirely. Plus, she probably hasn’t quiet entirely. I think that, with this one, we have to take the small victories we can get.

  34. original kate says:

    poor thing is so toxed she can’t even laugh properly anymore.

  35. di butler says:

    I wore those blouses the first time, so I don’t particularly want to, again, but they are very much back in style. So, whatever.

  36. Chris says:

    Nichole looks cute no matter whats she’s wearing. She maybe getting on a bit now but still pretty.

  37. Ruby says:

    Her face, her face, her face. Once so pretty and elegant. Now… Ugh. That second pic lmao.

    But despite this they both look so happy and you can see a lot of admiration. Awwwwwwww 🙂

  38. TeeTee says:

    wow her face is tragic!!! and her lip??

    before she started messing w/her face she was gorg..now she is down right scary!

    I guess she has on a wig or hair piece on top??

    I’d love to be a fly on the wall in their home, wowww

  39. Nanea says:

    I guess she’s wearing that blouse because her neck is showing her real age.

    One just needs to look at her hands.

    Difficult, I know, given those other body parts have that face to compete with.

  40. bluhare says:

    Gawd! She’s squinting and still her face doesn’t move!

    And check out that profile shot. WTF is with the lower lip? It looks like she’s got either (a) the world’s biggest swollen canker sore on the inside of her lip or (b) she’s the victim of the herp celebrity lawsuit!

    Man, my snarkometer is working overtime today.

  41. tango says:

    Poor Nicole. Everyone thought she’d come out of her marriage with Tom Cruise the lucky and sane one. But after all the face fooling around and the total lack of relationship with her 2 older kids, I think she’s just as f-ed up as her ex.

  42. melissa says:

    Her hair looks filthy.

  43. Marytere says:

    OMG, her hands!!

  44. bagladey says:

    Her clothes aren’t that bad and are totally Nicole Kidman, but her upper lip is horrible. Why isn’t she able to get it done properly?

  45. anonymoose says:

    too unnerved by her distorted wonky face to notice the clothes.

    the messed up face and hair are obviously a cry for help.

    someone PLEASE help her.

  46. pixiegirl says:

    Hated it! Looks totally Victorian with a modern/matron flair.

  47. Newbie says:

    I like her as an actress, but her wonk-eye and her lips are truly frightening. She’s perfectly gorgeous with her own thin lips. I wish people would accept themselves and work it. It’s far more flattering than trying to grow duck lips or shaving their noses down to the edge of a knife. Aaaack! I would like to know who laid down the ground rule that your mouth is only sexy if your lips look like balloons. Seriously, who came up with this shit?

  48. luls says:

    lmao! these pics gave me a good laugh 😀
    way to pick em Kaiser! 😉

  49. Kimbob says:

    They both have VERY frozen faces. Nicole has totally F’d up her face. She looks like an alien…not normal, not human. Her husband is not too far behind her. What kills me is that Nicole always totally denies she’s done anything…claims all this is “natural.” She’s gross, and is too far removed from reality. She looks REALLY BAD.

  50. Camille says:

    Awful. And so are her lips. I wish she would stopping messing with her face 🙁 .

  51. Val says:

    Tamra Barney on RHOC has those inner eye rabbit wrinkles, too.

  52. june says:

    Nicole can do no wrong. I too wish she would stop messing with her face and lay off the botox. But she’s still one of the best actresses of her generation and I love her sense of style. It’s timeless not trendy and works.

  53. Maritza says:

    It seems she just wanted to go unnoticed that’s why she dressed that way. They both look very happy, good for them.

  54. JulieM says:

    Yes, Nicole has really jacked with her face, but she does look incredibly happy and fulfilled. Nice husband, pretty kids; it could be worse!

  55. naturegirl says:

    Nice to see Nicole again, she and Keith looks so happy.

  56. Dea says:

    Oh my, a couple of months ago she finally accepted that she tried botox but noted that does not do it anymore. I think she needs some mental help as she is still doing botox but she is in denial. That is both hilarious and sad. I also think Keith does botox too. There is no f..cking wrinkle on their foreheads. It just can not be natural for people in their 40-s.
    Although I like Keith a lot as a human being.

  57. sandy says:

    she seems so happy, I’m happy for her.

  58. bored says:

    Why, when she has an interaction with her husband, does she always seem to over-compensate? Everything must be the funniest or the biggest or the most adoring? How about acting normal? How about just being supportive? Why does she always go over the top? Does she so desperately need all the attention and focus to be in her at all time that she must act like this? It’s kind of sad but then, I really shouldnt expect healthy behaviour from someone who jacks their face up every couple of months to keep looking like a wax statue.

  59. Eve says:

    Creepy! *Twilight theme song playing in the background as I scroll down to see these pictures*

  60. Hakura says:

    @Brin“Looks like he just brought the little woman in to the big city from their farm way yonder.”

    Exactly this. A brilliant comparison. I was going to say her outfit looks less 80’s & more like something a fussy Victorian house-matron, standing at the top of the stairs & glaring disapprovingly at someone. That, or ‘Little House On The Prairie’…

    @TurquoiseBlue“How can she possibly think this is a good idea, and why isn’t her husband saying something?”

    Maybe he’s unable to express his disapproval (or anything else), because he’s tagging along on her botox appointments? His face looks awfully smooth.

    @RHONYC“her most important & best accessory was her heartfelt smiles of pride she gave to Keith. sweet.

    I agree that it’s great that she’s happy for him, … It’s just that it looks like smiling is so difficult & painful… Especially with her upper lip so ‘swollen’ looking. It’s just really hard not to notice how bad she’s screwed up her face.

    It’s so frustrating to see all these *beautiful* women, taking what they were blessed with for granted, & ruining it with these ‘procedures’. Women are even starting to have these procedures in their 20’s, as some sort of ‘preemptive strike’ against aging by prevening the natural facial movement that *creates* wrinkles… Is a perfect smooth mask worth not being able to move your face & make expressions?

  61. LBeees says:

    Hey, camp Nicole. And hey! I like that blouse!

  62. sirsly says:

    who’s the dude on the left of her? He’s kinda hot

  63. Crash2GO2 says:

    Oh, she just looks like a Chucky doll now. I’m sorry, but it’s not normal to make expressions like that and not have ANY creasing. It looks pretty frightening actually.

  64. jemshoes says:

    I’m a bit taken aback by Nicole’s face – she looks like pulling any kind of facial expression is painful and unnatural – but her style is isn’t that tragic. There are celebrities who dress much worse than sexy-librarian! 😉

  65. Trillion says:

    Poster girl for why you shouldn’t do botox. When you’re left to emoting with nothing more than your gums and teeth, well, you see the results here.

  66. Trillion says:

    Oh and Urban has got the worst hair ever. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men had better hair than this.

  67. Lia says:

    Who’s the guy standing next to her? Kind of appealing….

  68. kasper says:

    Nicole looks confused and a little terrified by her own face.

  69. Kloops says:

    They are just the weirdest looking couple. So stereotypically “Hollywood”. They look ridiculous and I feel embarrassed for them even though I know I shouldn’t. She has completely jacked her face and it’s atrocious. Someone, friend or family, needs to tell her to stop, she’s making a fool of herself.

    But the shirt is okay. Meh.

  70. eternalcanadian says:

    This was yesterday? May 15? In Tennessee? Why are the people dressed like it is about to snow?

  71. Danni says:

    She has always been a fan of classic “suiting” type outfits and they do look lovely on her. I would just look like a big nerd.

  72. mary simon says:

    Fug outfit – boring and matronly. Hair looks overprocessed, flat and greasy – like it hasn’t been washed in days. The upper lip is now a borderline ballooning harelip – overly puffed earthworms sagging from sharp top tip in the middle – freaky.

  73. isabelle says:

    SHOCKING

  74. Zelda says:

    Her face really does look like a mask now. I’m not even exaggerating for the purposes of snark or humour. It looks like a Nicole Kidman Halloween mask, slightly wonky from the mass production process.
    So disturbing.

  75. T. Redd says:

    OMG! Regan from The Exorcist in that one shot. She’s fugly.

  76. Lulu says:

    She can barely move her face. Poor girl!

  77. Dolores says:

    It looks like a lot of scientologists are writing in, if you think she is so ugly why do you always look up info on her. She is beautiful and one of our greatest actresses in the world. Congratulations Keith, well deserved.

  78. Fashion is different in Australia, it’s okay to be different. She’s having fun.

  79. REALIST says:

    Kaiser-you are from the South! When I moved to Seattle from NC, all my pastels and stuff with anything even remotely ruffly went to the back of the closet. Oh, and I bought lots and lots of black! Fashion there just isn’t the same thing, and if I were Nicole, I’d want to fit in! Try to minimize the “I love her to death, but…”effect.

  80. Minty says:

    The second picture makes her look like a combination between a scary skeleton and Linda Blair’s Regan in The Exorcist.