Defamer
After seeing these photos of Lara Flynn Boyle signing autographs at Mr. Chow last night, we're honestly wondering whether or not those fans even knew whose John Hancock they were requesting. Boyle, mostly remembered either for her crazy skin-and-bones years while dating Jack Nicholson or that flouncy ballerina dress she wore to the 2003 Oscars, is now under suspicion by the weeklies of going under one (or seven) wild surgery procedures. And while our before-and-after photos after the jump make their assertion difficult to protest, we're also wondering if this new look has anything to do with a little film she just completed called Life Is Hot In Cracktown.
The images on the left were taken over the weekend, and it's hard not to notice how different Lara looks now as compared to the two on the right, taken in 2006. Her cheeks are a bit more bloated, her lips a little poufier, normally signifiers of collagen and some kind of cheek implants. But...
A quick breeze through her upcoming projects reveals the fact that Lara recently completed work on Life Is Hot In Cracktown, which is based on a book that details several characters' experiences with crack use in the inner cities. Instead of jumping on the plastic surgery assumption bandwagon, we're gonna give Lara the benefit of the doubt here and assume this new get-up is all a part of some grand Kutcherian plan. At least, we're hoping it is.
[Photo Credits: Getty, Barcroft]
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She looks like she's had a petit stroke.
She was on a new Law & Order a few weeks back. She was sporting this bloat and I had to double-check the credits. This does not look like a choice.
Rumours, innuendos, speculation. Can't a girl suffer from mumps without everyone jumping all over her?
She looked the same in a recent episode of L&O, and I kept thinking "Hey, I didn't know LFB had a younger sister!"
My vote is steroid use.
@balboa: Well... I guess that means the surgery worked, technically right?
She does look younger. She looks like a completely different person... but she looks younger.
It's like that scene in Robocop right before the melting guy gets run over and explodes into pea soup and pistachio jello pudding.
@balboa: @klondikedog: That L&O (which has been 10000x times better this season) was my first thought too.
Although I don't think she looked this old in the show.
Actually, her face looks looks like she's on prednisone, a steroid used to treat all sorts of things.
Just a little backseat MD-ing.
@TheStarterWife: Dude, Linus Roache is sex-ay. Rowr.
what's with beautiful women fucking up their faces? sheer waste, i tell you. sheer waste!
she looks like Priscilla Presley and that aint good, even her lips look like they are trying to make a retreat off that mug
@Lula Mae Broadway: I thought the same thing! That looks like someone who's on prednisone (mixed with some bad plastic surgery). If our street doctoring is right, I hope LFB isn't seriously sick.
I'm going to jump in with all the others... When I checked the television listings to see if that Wednesday's L&Os were reruns, I saw LFB's name, but when she actually appeared on the screen, I was scratching my head because I don't know that I would've recognized her, if she hadn't have been listed in the credits.
Aieee!
She looks like the love child of Evangeline Lilly and Jerry Lewis on prednisone.
Bulimia face?
I second SPL's "Aieee!" because Aieee! is the best all around response to anything in life.
@balboa: Younger? I saw her on L&O and wondered how she had celebrated her 60th birthday.
My aunt had some funky kidney problem a few years back, and one of the meds the docs gave her was a steroid (might have been prednisone, but I don't think so) and it puffed her up just like this.
Why would you leave the house?
Gravity pwns Lara.
Too many G's in her astronaut training.
@Nomi Malone: First botox and cheek-plants came for Melanie Griffith, and I said nothing. Then they came for Nicole Kidman, and I said nothing... Seriously. The younger stars can't accept that prescription meds and cocaine will kill them, and the older ones can't accept that botox, ass-to-lip fattening, and cheek fillers make them look pathetic. I want Angelica Houston, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Meryl Streep to host an intervention pronto.
I saw that L&O episode too. She wears a bikini at one point, and her body looks terrific. But her face does NOT look good at all.
(I admit though I was a bit distracted by hunky David Harbour. How YOU doin'...)
Naw, that's Renee Zellweger!! Puffy face, slitty eyes, tortured mouth…yup: Zellweger.
Proof that you should not inject botulism into your face. I don't care what they're calling it.
A good example of why plastic surgery is one of those things you should pay full price for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Mr. Chow's is overrated.
@mcgeorge: Truth. What the deal? It's Chinese food.
Christina Applegate has really let herself go.
Get the net!
Linus Roache -- yummm. We need more Linus Roache posts. Or any.
She kind of looks like the post-anorexic girls from my high school. Is it possible she's eating for the first time since 1992 and it's just puffing her up moreso than the rest of us?
Jack Nicholson's jizz weighed down her mouth pussy!
What happened to her jawline? If this was a result of surgery, surely she'd have gotten a jawline put in at the same time? I'm voting for the steroid bloat as well.
Is it shallow of me to rejoice that I'm not the only chick with jowls?
I've seen some stills from "Life is Hot.." and LFB looks good, healthy even (for her anyway). The bloating had to have happened sometime after that and fairly recently since they wrapped not too long ago.
Can't bulimia cause a puffy face? That would explain the stick thin figure as well..
There's a surgeon who says it's probably steroids:
[celebritycosmeticsurgery.blogspot.com]
@raincoaster
I love this site! Pretty much bends the Hypocratic Oath (mockery is kind of like doing harm) but at least we have a trained professional doing the snark here...
As a former copy editor of medical pamphlets, my training suggests that it's steroids also. Maybe her joints were giving her the gyp.
She looks like she has moon face, a sign of bulimia. And yeah you can also get it from taking steroids (as in to treat inflammation not bulk up). It doesn't look like she had surgery just that her face is swollen.
To take the long view, I'd go for steroids as well - because she looks just like Rosalind Russell in her last few photos, when she was using heavy duty meds against rheumatoid arthritis.
God, I'm old.
Another vote here for Prednisone. She's been a heavy smoker for years; maybe she has developed asthma and needs steroids.
@Ssscorpion: Actually I have asthma and the steriods you take for it are usually inhaled and don't have the save side effects as the pills.
I think once I was given pills for, like, 2 days before the inhaled stuff kicked in.
It's gotta be h-e-double hockey sticks living in a town where you are judged by your looks.
Relax, people. That's NOT Lara Flynn Boyle. It's Rene Zellwegers' mom.
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