September 24th 2023.
Sir Ian McKellen recently opened up about his run-in with a plastic surgeon. The 84-year-old actor explained why he decided to abandon his plans to go under the knife after hearing the ins and outs of the procedure.
The Lord of the Rings star said he had become fed up with the wrinkles around his eyes and his sagging cheeks, and thought a facelift might help. He booked in to see a surgeon but was scared off after they told him the process involved cutting through the muscle.
Sir Ian joked about his ageing process and said: “My face looks older than it did 40 years ago… so what? I wouldn’t consider surgery. I did once – I went to see about getting rid of these jowls. The man began telling me what it entailed and said, ‘We cut through this muscle’. I was out of there like a shot.”
It's not the first time the actor has spoken out against plastic surgery. In 2016, he criticised celebrities who were altering their face and looks with cosmetic procedures. Speaking to the same publication, Sir Ian said: “What’s wrong with a few wrinkles? What are you trying to be? It’s a dreadful sort of arrogance to think, ‘I need a little tuck here and I’ll be back to what I was’. Your experience makes you older. If experience is expressed in your face, what’s wrong with that?”
Sir Ian has also recently opened up about his sexuality. He revealed that coming out publicly in 1988 was an absolute revelation and that he realised the oppression he'd been under. The actor shared: “The shame of being gay is something a lot of gay people will say they’ve experienced. It comes from other people, not yourself, which they visit on you and you accept.”
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