{"id":12372,"date":"2013-12-17T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T08:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:18:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T08:18:46","slug":"its-psychotic-to-use-botox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12372","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s psychotic to use Botox’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It may be freezing outside \u2014 but the faces of American women are thawing out.<\/p>\n

Botox, the most common cosmetic surgery procedure in the country, is suffering a serious public backlash, a decade after its rise to rigid prominence on the brows of celebrities and average folk alike.<\/p>\n

The waxy, immobile visages of middle-aged stars like Nicole Kidman, Bruce Jenner, Ren\u00e9e Zellweger \u2014 and even that of 27-year-old Lindsay Lohan \u2014 have become cautionary tales of overindulging with the injectable antiwrinkle treatment. And now many A-listers are speaking out about their revulsion for Botox.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Gwyneth Paltrow, 41, admitted she\u2019d dabbled with the age-defying toxin. But, she said in an interview, \u201cI won\u2019t do Botox again, because I looked crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

And 54-year-old Emma Thompson, on a tour for her new movie \u201cSaving Mr. Banks,\u201d made some pointed comments to UK talk show host Graham Norton recently: \u201cLook at me, I\u2019m normal. I really wouldn\u2019t do anything. It\u2019s psychotic to have your body opened up and stuff put in and inject yourself with poisons.\u201d nypost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may be freezing outside \u2014 but the faces of American women are thawing out. Botox, the most common cosmetic surgery procedure in the country, is suffering a serious public backlash, a decade after its rise to rigid prominence on the brows of celebrities and average folk alike. The waxy, immobile visages of middle-aged stars … Continue reading “‘It’s psychotic to use Botox’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,123],"tags":[7836,1972,7837],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","category-world","tag-botox","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-psychotic"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/helenzuma.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}