We haven’t written about Catherine Zeta-Jones in more than a year. It’s not that she’s been in the wind – photo archives show that she’s been photographed on average at least once a month or once every two months. But it does seem like seeing Catherine on a major red carpet is a rare occasion these days. These photos are of Catherine at last night’s London premiere of Dad’s Army, a film that seems like a throwback “war comedy” in the vein of, like, a Bob Hope film or something. Catherine plays a female journalist that throws an English Home Guard platoon into a tizzy in 1944.
Since I haven’t really been paying attention to Catherine for a few years, I was sort of surprised that she doesn’t look dramatically different. I’ve gotten so used to celebrities “going away” for a few months and coming back with an entirely new face. Which isn’t to say that I think Catherine is scalpel-free. I think she’s been worked on, but it’s good, expensive, gradual work. The effect is that she looks somewhat hazy and ageless rather than radically different. My guess is that she (like Sharon Stone) gets smaller tweaks here and there. I also think Catherine avoids Botox because she doesn’t have that frozen look of so many 40-plus actresses. The one part of her body that does look visibly “worked on”? Her bust. She had a boob job several years ago and her girls look well-maintained surgically.
Catherine’s dress here is Elie Saab. I think the effect is sort of old-school glamour, like Elizabeth Taylor in the 1970s. I also enjoy the fact that Catherine isn’t stick thin – the fact that she’s put on a few pounds as she’s aged helps her look younger, just my opinion.
PS… Catherine and Michael Douglas are still back together – they were just out together in NYC before the holidays and they seem to be doing okay. Michael was not at this premiere though, just FYI.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
I think the dress is unflattering and her hair is dated looking. It’s a big miss, for me.
Yep, for me too. It makes her look older than she is. The jewellery is pretty cool, but it looks tacky with that dress.
Agree 100%.
Yes. She has a good figure but, like any other woman over 40, we need to help it along with the way we dress, and this does nothing for her.
Her hair does look dated.
The dress is a beautiful color, but needs more structure at the top. Although her girls may look good, the cut is a bit thirsty for my taste.
That was my thinking. In the first photo the dress looks beautiful, but a little too revealing and unstructured up top for her. I love the color though.
My thoughts exactly. Either have the slit up the leg or at the neck line but not both. I lIke the color of the dress though.
Agree, especially with minx and MsGoblin’s points. The same color, with a little more structure and a little less exposure, would have been fabulous. I’m happy to see her again though!
What is up with the middle of the dress? It makes her look fat there, but I would give my right arm for legs like hers. Dancers. Also she needs desperately to quit smoking. She is getting those smoker’s lines in her upper lips.
She usually wears gobs of jewelry! That’s the only thing that could save this ho-hum dress.
She is so beautiful. All of her work is quite subtle and done very well.
I think she looks great. And kudos to Michael and herself for not doing the usual Hollywood hit, git and split, and working on the marriage. I hope it works out,if it does’t they have tried their best.
I was just about to say, whoever worked on her did a damn good job.
Ya she looks absolutely gorgeous. Glad to see her looking well.
She still looks like herself which is good, I guess to each their own on surgery. I’m more excited to hear about a Dad’s Army film – loved that show when I was a kid – don’t panic Mr. Mannering 🙂
Love the dress and the bracelet is awesome!!! I can tell she has had work for sure but given the level of complete face transformation we are used to seeing, hers is more restrained. Wouldn’t call it subtle, but I can still recognize her without a shudder, so hurray for restraint. And yeah, definitely bust work but good bust work. She looks great overall. What I don’t understand is why they all need this work. I am turning 47 and IMO my face looks as unlined and smooth as hers or better and I haven’t had a stitch of procedures done. Other than wearing minimal makeup daily, using natural creams, exfoliating and washing my face at night, nothing. What happens to them to age so badly that they need so many procedures?
I agree although I think when you hit 50 it can get a little more noticeable typically but a lot of these actresses are doing it way before then. I always think about Courtney Cox — if that is Botox, let it settle and just stop. (I hope it is something that is reversible or stoppable.) Some women seem to be able to do subtle non-invasive, non-surgical facials and treatments and look natural, not age-defying (should that always be the goal?) but really good. Whether we should care so much, I actually dont know! I am sort of a naturalist so I think these substances and surgeries are not so great in general for your body, etc.
I agree Catherine Z-J probably (maybe?) had something done, but there are no close-ups so hard to say. (She is 46, just checked.)
Botox doesn’t “settle.” It just gradually wears off.
She’s been lying about her age for years and I remember she got caught out when she visited the White House years ago and they did a background check. I think she’s in her early 50’s.
Vauvert – I think the same..why do they need all this surgical intervention? Ofcourse vanity is the easy answer. But then most stars need their assistants to even perform simple errands,,then how come they don’t feel scared about surgical knoves etc on their skin?? And given some cosmetic procedures gone wrong with so many actors..don’t they still feel scared? I can’t comprehend this vane bravery . Courtney Cox used to be so gorgeous and now she looks awful and plastic-ky. It’s so sad.
Many smoke, which wrinkles the face more quickly. Many also used to worship the sun, which can age skin also. I’m guilty of the latter, and definitely have forehead lines. Ugh.
I think she looks fantastic. A tiny bit tight which is causing her to not be able to close her mouth easily, but she looks amazing otherwise.
I used to smoke for 15 years (stopped 11 years ago but started again last month, really need to stop. Stress is no excuse…) but have been staying out of the sun since my twenties, after a childhood during which I spent a month by the sea with no sunscreen whatsoever. I guess part of it is good genes, my mom still doesn’t look her age.
It just baffles me that with money being no issue, access to good facials and excellent products, they still have this overwhelming need to go under the knife. I find the idea of injecting stuff in my face or going under the knife scary as hell. I get that being in the spotlight requires you to look good but are they blind to the fact that generally speaking they look worse after having work do Everything?
Most actresses smoke – many of them heavily and they pay a big price for it when they hit their 40’s. Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston and Uma Thurman spring to mind as actresses who have aged quite badly. Back here in real life women in their early 40’s who don’t smoke can look very young – much younger than those 3 actresses. And without work too.
I would’ve said the same thing three years ago, but turning 50 now, and there is sagging!
Yes. Sagging is the killer. You can do everything right, but when your hormones start to change you lose volume in your face. The youngsters will find out.
It’s the sagging I kind of dread! I’m in my 40s and still (I think!) in good shape – I don’t really have any wrinkles but I have started noticing the first signs of the dreaded sag. Nothing major – for now – but a sign of things to come. And when I look at people I used to find attractive but now feel have aged badly, it’s not their wrinkles that bother me, but that sagging! And short of a facelift, there’s really not much you can do to stop it.
I can’t speak with authority on this but one person I know who works behind the cameras says lighting is a killer; he claims he’s gone back to work on shows after 2 or 3 years and some of the actresses show rapid aging since the previous visit.
I am sure many actresses are intimidated within an inch of their contracts to get unnecessary work done. And I think of two television actresses, Ellen Pompeo and Kyra Sedgwick (both whom I believe have reputations as solid, no-nonsense employees). When asked about future acting roles, both actresses alluded to wanting to spend more time behind the camera – in part because sitting for hours while a whole team made you conventionally attractive was making them nuts. I think this is a business that makes even the smartest women do really dumb things.
I have no appreciation for botox, fillers and lip injections. They make a 30 year old woman look like the 50 year old widow of a dictator. However, I am gaining an appreciation for face lifts. Original G is not joking – the sagging is Real.
Absolutely agree on the sagging. I’m about to turn 45 and this last year I’ve noticed my left side lower cheek and around the side of my mouth drop slightly. Right too but less noticeable. I’m told I’ve always had a very expressive (mobile) face but guess a regular expression I’m not aware of has put more strain on one side than other.
A friend, who works in cosmetic treatments, once told me that, besides good hydrating products and toners ect it’s how you apply them and stimulate/exercise your face (from a young age) that counts.
There’s an early choice to be made: exercise to stop sag can encourage wrinkling but don’t stimulate the right bits and sag happens eventually. I don’t mind lines (they’re you markings of life lived) – so best to start young to keep the sag at bay. And lots of water, stay out of the sun.
Starting work done young, as Hollywood increasingly do, is a path to rapidly diminishing returns and a treadmill of neverending repair/maintenance. Best to keep it natural, with due low-level daily product care, than serial surgical fixing.
And learn to like lines.
She looks great, but not young enough for that dress. Time and gravity cannot be reversed no matter how much tweaking is done. She should have gone with more structure.
It doesn’t look to me like she’s had anything done. Maybe nonsurgical stuff like chemical peels and miracle creams. She was never Hollywood skinny either. I remember comments about her size compared to Renee Zellwegger in Chicago but actually she’s like 5’10 and Renee is a midget by comparison.
I think she’s had minimal intervention. The only thing that is obvious is forehead botox, but it is subtle and avoids that “hard” look some actresses favor. But you can see lines around her mouth; as others have noted, she smokes. I think she looks pretty natural overall.
If you check out the same photos on Daily Mail you can see deep lines on the side of her neck that are pulled up almost vertical which means she’s had a face lift Neck lines aren’t horizontal across the front and then make a 90 degree angle up toward the ears unless the skin has been pulled up.
She looks great. She was stunning in Mask of Zorro..why did she ever feel the need for tweaking that perfect face…still she does look like herself.
She also resembles Sofia Vergara quite a bit in recent pics 😐
I also think the styling is dated but she looks good. The weight makes a difference – she looks healthy and fit.
No botox? Dream on.
Not judging. I get a little help myself.
Yup. CZJ has had a ton of work done, and not good work.
It doesn’t look so apparant in these pictures – apart from the dress (which doesn’t suit her) she looks OK. Maybe she’s laid off the botox and fillers recently, but there’s no doubt that she’s had all sorts of procedures done.
CZJ neck looks much older than her face. There is no way she is 46…
I was thinking her neck looks good!
*Sigh* Please don’t start that nonsense. Yes, she is 46. Her age is very well documented as she was a child star. She couldn’t get away with lying about her age if she tried.
Well I don’t know about that, but if she is 46, she’s got to be a smoker or something because she definitely skews older to me.
She is (or was) a smoker. She started acting in England when she was 14. It’s well documented, so she really is 46. Some people just look older than their age, some people look younger.
She is supposedly 10 years older. There was some sort of scandal at a White House event. Her documents did not match up and her real documents show she is 10 years older. She does look more like 56 vs 46.
OMG, where do you all live if this woman looks 56 to you?? You guys make me feel just awful about all my wrinkles at age 60. (thin Scandinavian skin, and no sunscreen growing up, sigh..). But cmon! I do agree with folks who felt the dress style doesn’t suit her. Go with what you want, ladies, but in my experience, when an older woman wears a revealing style to prove she’s still got it, it actually kind of makes one mentally compare you to a 22 year old, so it’s not all that flattering, if you seem “try hard”. I think she should be very proud of her marvelous figure, and I do love that color on her.
SamiHami, I will respond to Karen, you take the next one.
Karen, you are referring to a blind item that I have read in two distinct forms – one had Bush Jr as President, one had Clinton. Neither named CZJ. The reason why it is false (besides the cowardly blindness and the two Presidents I mean) is that birth certificates of Brits are on line. CJZ was in west end productions when she was 16, so in addition to bribing a govt dept to falsify her public record of birth, she would have had to have been a better actor than she actually is to pass as 16 when she was 26. And she also would have had to pay off every neighbour, every single student of every single school she ever attended to not come forward with “the truth” as to her age.
Rant over.I hate blind items on the whole as sloppy journalism. This one is particularly easy to disprove, but for the most part they are so vague that when something happens six months down the line that sort of fits to the general hints, the writer says “see!” like he is some sort of clairvoyant Woodward and Bernstein all rolled into one instead of the yellow amateur he is.
Now the rant is over.
It was a good rant though…
I have read la couple of articles and they quote various ages of when she played Annie. On says 9 years old, one says 11 and one says 13. For Bugsy I see age 13 and 14. Close. Maybe she shaves off a few years not necessarily 10 years.
By the way I am 56 so I can judge pretty much based on me and my fri nods and how we look if she smokes she will look older
Some people are just prone to those ” necklace lines”. I had a friend in high school who had them as a teen.
Yeah fair enough. Maybe the other posters are right, it’s her outfit or the fact that her face is tighter than her neck or something that’s making her skew older in my eyes. Something seems off ( to me)
She’s got the mouth of The Joker. It looks horrid. She needs to stop whatever she’s doing.
CZJ has always had that turned up mouth at the corners. I don’t know if she had surgery as a teen for that look but the joker mouth doesn’t really apply. The Darling buds of May will show you her look long before she hit Hollywood.
Her mouth is more purse-y than it used to be.
She looks Wonderful!
She looks amazing! I love her dress!
I’ve always loved czj. She’s still beautiful and yes she’s had some work done. She has been a smoker in the past, I don’t know if that’s still the case.
I don’t know if anyone was more beautiful than she was in the first zorro movie.
She’s a beautiful woman, always has been. Looks perfectly fine to me.
I vaguely recall an interview with a film make up artist years ago, where they were asked who were the most naturally beautiful actresses, pre-make up application. Catherine was named as one of them.
Compare her arms to Bethenny’s or Madonna’s. It’s amazing what a healthy weight does for a appearance as you age.
…hate to say it but the movie is a nothing…of no interest to anyone under 50.. and definately wont travel well…her hubby still should have showed up…
Karen, People over 50 don’t stop going to films! The grey pound made a big success of the exotic marigold hotels for example. Dads army is a British institution, I don’t really care if the film is that successful, I just hope it’s good. Michael has had serious health problems and I don’t think he should be criticised for not attending.
Great karen2 – then there’s no danger of bumping into you.
Anne tommy; I haven’t heard Michael’s cancer has returned so perhaps you have some inside info? If he’s good enough to do the talk show circuit etc then he’s good enough to be with his wife on the red carpet IMO.
I don’t know the circumstances, and neither do you citresse. I was saying the man has had health problems. He is also, as people keep banging on, much older than Catherine. I think it’s overly harsh to say that he should be there. It’s perfectly possible to have good days and not so good days after a major health problem.
…ps its a british institution…like lard..& pease pudding…ugh…
Many WW1 and WW2 films are of interest to many under the age of 50. There was a french film: A very long engagement (WW1) which appealed to many people in their 20s.
I think she’s been my girl crush since the mask of Zorro. Her and Antonio Banderas were just too hot to handle!!
She looks stunning, whatever she’s doing is WAY less shocking than whatever (even Sharon Stone) many celebs are doing at her age. I just enjoy her work and i think she looks amazing, fit, healthy. and beautiful.
The colour is great on her but the style is a bet meh. I’ve seen her in person and she is very toned and has a great figure – she looks great.
I don’t think she looks ageless. She looks like a woman in her mid forties. Still beautiful but nothing like the young stunning beauty she was. Definitely a more mature version of that young beauty. So, no, not ageless. Of course she’s tweaked. They all are to some degree. She’s a striking woman and always will be.
CZJ is a smoker.
The DM photos reveal the boob job (bolt ons) are not looking so great. One boob looks higher than the other.
That colour isn’t so great on her but overall she looks healthy ie the stick thin isn’t a good look for anyone of any age. She would have looked better if she stuck more to her character look of year 1944 for the red carpet. She was born to play characters from WW2.
And if things were ok with Michael, he should be there with her. I think they’re staying together for their children.
*SIGH*…all these negative comments about how horrid she looks, how her mouth looks like The Joker…how she’s 56 not 46…how her neck looks old…blah blah blah. How cruel we can be when it comes to dissecting looks. She simply looks great for 46 – she doesn’t look like she’s gone at all overboard with surgeries, fillers and botox. She hasn’t exercised herself to the point of looking like an emaciated piece of gristle and she dresses age-appropriately (hello Madonna….I’m talking to you). She’s in an industry that pretty much forces women to have these procedures done to stay relevant. Whatever she’s had done has been subtle and I think she looks gorgeous. Period.
Honestly, I agree. She looks lovely and it’s not a crime to be 46 or 56 or 66 or……. Some people make stating her age sound more like an accusation than just a simple fact. She’s using the treatments available and widely used by most of the well to do, in her age bracket. I also like it that she doesn’t look like she’s just come out of a try hard 90 day starvation boot camp.
Thank you! I think she is beautiful. I love that she has curves and hasn’t dieted to a point that she looks haggard.
I was reading all the comments thinking pretty much the same. I actually think she looks vibrant, healthy, even happy, which isn’t always the case with her. So, I’m happy for her, because she’s likable. It’s a good choice of colour, perhaps less so for the style of the dress. Yes, she’s a smoker, but she doesn’t look 56…that’s simply ridiculous. However, she always had a sort of maturity about her, even when younger. And she never was super thin, which might even be an advantage at a more ‘advanced’ age. She also tends to be rather ‘conservative’ in her style and makeup choices, so she looks her age, or sometimes slightly older.
Her body looks great. Very good work on her face. I would love to know who her surgeon is-I am not hating on him/her at all.
I would love to know how she stays thin on her mental health medication. I’ve been fighting to lose the same twenty pounds for the last five years. It’s frustrating. She looks good here.
I think she looks good but older than 46. She needs to hit the gym in my opinion. Her arms have no muscle tone and her stomach appears thick. Still an attractive woman though.
I also think she looks older than her age. And yes, I do know what real mid-40s looks like because I’m the same age as her. Then again, CZJ has always looked older than her years. I’m not one of those who think she’s lying about her age (virtually impossible for reasons given above) but she has always had a ‘mature’ look about her.
So did she or did she not have an affair with prince charles back in the day (as reported on cdan)?
Amazing. Fits like a dream.
BUT, stop holding your mouth like that.
She looks pretty and age appropriate.