First, the good news: Meg Ryan has stopped injecting her lips with whatever crazy, asinine, ugly, horrible, disgusting fillers that she was using for several years. Her lips were worse than Nicole Kidman’s are right now. Her lips were painful. So… I’m glad she’s stopped doing that sh-t. Secondly, the bad news: the lip stuff wasn’t the only thing Meg was doing, or had done to her once cute/pretty face. And whatever she had done, it still doesn’t look good. She seriously looks mangled. Her face should be the cautionary tale for every actress in Hollywood who considers plastic surgery.
Or maybe not. Because Meg is still getting parts in films. Granted, she’s no longer welcome to work with people like Tom Hanks and Nora Ephron, but Hollywood still puts Meg Ryan in front of camera and hopes that we can all pretend she didn’t do something tragic to her face. I hadn’t even heard of this film that Meg is promoting right now – it’s called Serious Moonlight, and it costars Timothy Hutton, Cheryl Hines and Justin Long. The only person out of this group I care about is Hutton. I love Hutton. I love his name, I love his beauty, I love his acting. But Hutton has made some horrible career decisions, and I suspect this film is one of them. Lainey Gossip has more about the film.
Even more depressing (for me) is that Meg is now rumored to be dating a man I find incredibly sexy. She’s allegedly dating Julian McMahon, of Nip/Tuck. He’s an incredible actor, and I find him to be very “do me on a leopard skin rug” hot/sleazy. How did Meg do it? How did she land such a hot piece? With that face?!?
Oh, and I hate her dress at this premiere. But she never could dress.
Meg Ryan at the ‘Serious Moonlight’ premiere in New York on December 3, 2009. Credit: WENN
Julian McMahon is walking sex. If Meg is tapping that, you go girl!
And thank God she’s gotten rid of that hideous trout pout.
I have to ask, but why is she not welcome to work with Tom Hanks and Nora Ephron? Was there some scandal?
Also, I don’t think her face is THAT bad. Her eye is a tad wonky, but she isn’t like a sideshow freak.
Good for her landing Julian. I like Meg, and he is hot. I still watch Charmed in re-runs to catch a glimpse of him in the mornings.
ITA, the dress is horrid!
And she looks 1,000,000,000,000% better.
YAY! She’s stunning! Love Meg Ryan just the way she is.
I always loves her but egads, her face looks awful and plastic. It’s a shame because she used to be adorable.
if she’s getting with him, good for her.
Dr. Christian Troy IS walking sex. I don’t even mind the receding hairline!
I think her new look makes her look mildly “mentally handicapped”, like if she laughed, it’d sound like “hoar hoar kshnort hoarrr” with a spray of nose goblins and spit.
Her nose is overworked and overly defined while her face is too filled and forward pushing from the cheeks to chin.
Clown-esque.
I’d also like to know what the bad-blood between her and Hanks is about.
I kinda think you’d really have to be an arse and a half to be on his bad side (does he even have a bad side?).
She looks like a a real life ‘Who’ from ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’
I may be wrong, but I think the reason she’s not doing movies with the likes of Tom Hanks or Nora Ephron anymore is not because of some scandal or falling out, but simply because her star power has decreased. I’m guessing she got sidetracked in recent years by her new daughter and all the time spent on lip injections… She does look much better without them.
Let us not forget the whole Russel Crowe/throw away her marriage fiasco. She came off as majorly crazy during that episode and her career soon went off the rails. You can’t be “America’s Sweetheart” when you dump your long time husband, and deliberately ensnare a co-worker during a film shoot. Plus the movie badly tanked, in part due to the scandal.
She seemed to go into a tail-spin after Russell Crowe dumped her and her marriage broke up. I think she had a major breakdown – but since she wasn’t swiping at cars with a baseball bat and shaving her head in public – she was able to keep it a bit on the down-low. One of the symptoms was the plastic surgery addiction.
Oh, I see Predicto beat me too it – but I sepnd a lot of time typing that crap – so I’m not deleting it. 🙂
The normal lips are such a huge improvement! And if she’s managed to land Julian, all I can say is way to go Meg.
There are still some odd things with whatever she did to her face though. She was so cute/pretty before, I don’t know what made her mess with it.
I agree that there probably is no bad blood, she’s just not the star she once was, and I agree it was the whole Russell Crowe thing that brought her down. She seems to have gotten it back together though, so that’s good.
Marionette face.
Lol @ Popcorny! I had the exact same (although less creative) reaction. She just looks bizarre and comically plastic, like a clown-faced doll. Add that to the fact that she’s wearing Maude Findlay’s gown and boots reserved for special liberal fund-raisers, and bitch looks crazy as hell.
Her face looks fine to me – and her nose looks the same too. Her lips look SO much better. Thin and natural is better than fat and shiny (take note Nicole!).
I think she doesn’t get anymore large parts because she isn’t that great of an actress. She pretty much peaked at ‘When Harry Met Sally’. Every role since that has been a reprisal of ‘Sally’. She is a completely one dimensional actress, although very likable. I think her sweetheart status is what kept her going for as long as she did in the big roles until she undid it by screwing around.
regarding her star power…
she rose to fame as a cute little thing, and did very well in roles like that. I think she eventually became too “old” to play that kind of role anymore, and the movie with Russell Crowe was her attempt to do something outside of that.
unfortunately, she was foolish enough to essentially dump her long time marriage for a fling (as some of you pointed out). I think she expected that to be more than just a fling and when it wasn’t, and Quaid didn’t take her back, and she wasn’t getting a lot of roles like she used to (and the movie tanked), her self esteem and self worth took a huge nosedive.
I think the face alterations were a direct result of all of that. she was desperately trying to “get back” what she used to have, or used to be.
EDIT: I’d just like to add that I’ve heard that Quaid cheated on her for years, and she looked the other way. perhaps Crowe was payback and she figured that Quaid would also look the other way, but no dice. Like a lot of men, it’s OK when they stray but you better not EVER! of course, it’s Ryan’s problem if she DID keep looking the other way when HE did it.
nevermind her face!
THAT DRESS, THOSE SHOES…HOW HORRID AND SAD.
JadedJudy:
December 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
She looks like a a real life ‘Who’ from ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’
You hit it right on the head. Best and most accurate description ever lolol.
She has the ‘Joker’ grin.
Hooray, she looks MUCH prettier this way. Younger, too.
WHAT movie was she filming when her marriage broke up and Russell Crowe dumped her?
Lantana, it was “Proof of Life”.
Julian McMahon?? I hate that bitch, Meg Ryan! Stay away from my man!
@maigirl: “Boots reserved for special liberal fund-raisers” – LOL
They also remind me of the boots Stevie Nicks has been wearing since 1975.
Okay, she’s totally reminding me of Carol Channing in these photos…which is really not good.
hey i believe quaid had affairs for years….and years….and she had stayed. finally she got out,but she took the fall b/c of crowe.
wouldn’t be suprised if this were true. either way,no trout lips=thumbs up!!!!
she looks like the joker
She looks SO much better. More like the Meg of yore.
I think her face looks fine. Her dress on the other hand…
Yeah, the dress: God’ll get ya for that, Meg.
Come on, it wasn’t cheating with Russell Crowe that ruined her career — it was that god-awful film In The Cut. She seemed to equate raunchy sex scenes with meaty acting opportunities, and thought the film was going to be her ticket out of silly-American-sweetheart-rom-com land. But she’s never been a serious actor, so nobody could take her seriously.
Whenever I see photos of her, though, I feel sorry for her. Her face is so plastic — it is truly sad that someone so lovely ever thought she needed to do that to herself to stay relevant. Women in Hollywood have such a skewed idea of what normal beauty is, and how aging doesn’t have to define who you are!
I don’t know if anyone remembers the puppet named Madame, but that is who she remids me of now. I used to be a big fan of hers from the 80’s cheesefest movies: Innerspace, Harry Met Sally, and Joe Versus the Volcano. Its something with her cheeks that looks so bad and then when she had the fish lips it was even worse!
JadedJudy said it all! I couldn’t put my finger on it until I read your comment lol 🙂
she looks horrible but after all of the craziness that was going on w/her face–it’ll never be the same..
she reminds me of my aunt Hazel in that get-up..wow, she used to be sooo cute.
I guess she did not think so. it all went downhill from there.
OMG she does look like Madame. And why is she wearing a Fruit of the Loom billboard? I think she and Quaid were on the outs long before Russell showed up and if you’re gonna ruin your marriage, you might as well have fun doing it!
damn, that does not look cute on her… looks like she lost a ton of weight and decided to pull a piece of saran wrap over her face… it’s so strange because you think some people are above it… but nope…
Considering all the other crap she’s done to her face it seems almost pointless really. Still, she’s rocking the shaved, demented chipmunk look so good for her.
I wonder if rom com actresses of today will find themselves in Meg’s shoes one day.
@ Granger
I definitely concur about In the Cut being the beginning of her demise. The fall out from that was catastrophic for her. On another note, however, how can women working in Hollywood NOT have skewed notions of beauty? Hollywood has never been interested in exporting “normal” beauty. Normal beauty is sufficient for Wal-Mart check out girls, not Hollywood starlets. They are working in an industry where beauty is the foremost commodity and essentially equates women’s worth with their looks. And they are also not kind to ageing actress, which is why they are so afaid of ageing. Most women are afraid of, or at least have some anxieties regarding, the ageing process. When you exacerbate that by the realization that you will have a hard time working after 40 and will increasingly become less relevant then of course ageing is something that you will have a hard time accepting. The only women in the industry who don’t have to worry about this as much are the Cate Blanchetts, the Kate Winslets, and the Meryl Streeps, i.e. the exceptionally talented actresses who are actually known for their skills and not their looks and receive the plum roles that are not contingent on their beauty. Sadly, these are not MOST actresses.
So, Ryan gets too old to be the ingenue and this is what happens. Not only did she cease injections, she cropped off her hair, again, in what looks like a sad attempt to channel the 90’s version of herself when she had more clout and relevance. Don’t think it’s going to work. I was never a fan of hers as I always found her to lack range, but I must say that I feel badly for her.
so interesting: she was on top of the world in the 1990s. Cute as a button, so beloved. I remember when she was feted for Harvard’s “Hasty Pudding” parade. Could do no wrong. Then the Russell Crowe thing, of course. Glad she is no longer distorting the lips but so interesting the sexism and agism in Hollywood. She’s the poster child for Hollywood’s lack of interest in post-40 yr old actresses (with some great exceptions, of course–cf. Meryl). I imagine she felt she was driven to plastic surgery. It’s all a sad cautionary tale.
Talk about becoming your mother.
I’ve seen pics of her mother and also TV interviews.
She’s become her mother.
She might as well reconcile with her and forgive her for whatever she’s bitter about so the two can support and commiserate with each other as old man time has not been kind to either of them.
I think she is very talented. In the Cut was great. Her chemistry with Mark Ruffalo was electric and her performance was pitch perfect but the material was . Personally, I think Americans can not handle the woman in charge of her sexuality who is not a sex worker. I saw Proof of Life again a few weeks ago. Good movie and she was stunning and sexy. She was punished for cheating on her husband (a rumored drunk and cheat) It is a real shame her surgeon butchered her face, she would have aged well naturally.
Its so funny. All these comments make perfect sense; why can’t people in Hollywood think like we do? Why can’t they see the same thing we do when they look in the mirror? Are they that out of touch? Sad indeed.
what was the point of doing this though? it didn’t help her get any more work… and now she’s jobless AND hideous to boot…
She looks like a granny. Granny Meg.
Older women in Hollywood get so slammed. I am sick of hearing it. Her lips are wonderful again. I agree her previous injections were bad. I don’t see much else that is too severe. She needs clothes/stylist help, however!
Jesus– that pattern would look great on a wine label or a table cloth but not on a full-length dress! Where does one even find such clothes?
Really a pity what Ryan did to her face. Maybe older actresses can’t get as many parts, but I imagine the opportunities are reduced even further for older actresses with paralysed foreheads, chipmunk cheek implants, bat brows and trout pouts.
I thought In the Cut was great– loved Mark Ruffalo as the sleazy cop.
LMAO @ Popcorny.
Very colorful way of saying she looks what we here in the south call “special” or “teched”.
What clothing designer would ever stitch together a dress that looks that terrible and THEN think it’s a garment worth selling? I sewed a better vest at a sewing camp I was conned into by my best friend in 6th grade.
why is meg ryan wearing books with a long dressy dress. wow did she looks her looks. the brief affair with russell crow ruined her career and he is long married with a couple of kids. what a shame. maybe tom hanks can throw her a bone and make Sleepless in Seattle II or You’ve Got Mail II.
She wonked-up her eyebrows really badly in You’ve Got Mail, and apparently hasn’t fixed them yet. Unless she’s actually going for a Joan Collins/Jocelyn Wildenstein look.
Meg, your eyebrows were placed above your eyes by nature, not on either side of your eyes like little bridges to your ears.
Her foundation makeup is not helping either. She looks like the peach render on a Florida vacation home.
I think she’s ready for “your crazy aunt” type roles!
she still looks plastic, even without the trout pout. same weird head on most of hollywood.
now she needs to stop with the fillers in her cheeks and chin.
It’s like they tried to take the worst pics possible of her. Sad. I like her but she’s looking stranger and stranger as the years pass. And harder and harder to look at. (pls stop!)