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shinebrightlike

she's beautiful but please keep in mind these are heavily photoshopped!


Iwoulddiefcftbatk

And she has access to expensive treatments and products too! This pops up in the skincare subs a lot, regular people can’t afford the laser treatments, expensive spa treatments or facial creams.


mydaycake

And hasn’t seen the sun for 30 years. Sun does a hell of damage.


BiscoBiscuit

I want to know what sunscreen she uses. A good sunscreen can’t be replaced especially with summers getting hotter and hotter.


bangbangbatarang

Tangential, but I'm very pale, burn and freckle easily, and I was born and raised in South East Queensland in Australia where the sun is vicious beyond belief. There's a counter-trend: we have such high rates of skin cancer that necessary sun protection has led to high rates of vitamin D deficiency. Legit can't win.


mydaycake

I slathered myself in sunscreen (raise in Spain but with really pale skin and now I leave in another sunny place) and take vitamin D supplements advised by my doctor. There has been skin cancer cases in my family’s last 3 generations so it’s not if but when it will happen to me. My kids had not gotten sunburn yet, I have been very diligent, now that they are getting older I have to remind them to use sunscreen all the time, they are as pale as me…


saltporksuit

I’m a sheet of paper that lives in Texas. I actually order Cancer Council in the giant pump bottle from Oz. I also take a 50,000IU Vit D a week. This is the way. My levels are top notch and my skin is transparent.


champagneface

In Ireland, we can’t win either. We’re all vitamin D deficient but skin cancer is the most common cancer. Nobody sees the risk in our grey sky days.


UnlikelyDecision9820

A vitamin deficiency is easier to address than cancer :/


TreatEconomy

This is my response when people suggest I should try leaving the house sometime


Precarious314159

Right?! I'm 40 and a lot of people I graduated high school with have gray hairs, wrinkles, and look like they're 45+. Meanwhile I get mistaken for being late 20s, early 30s. The sun will do serious damage to age you up.


ZenythhtyneZ

People always ask me my “secret” for my nice skin and I say “I’ve been a vampire getting no sun in the PNW my whole life”


Thonas1234

I mean good for her. She has access to expensive skincare products and maybe even plastic surgery, but she doesnt overdo it like many other celebs in Hollywood did


Annajbanana

I was going to say, we are all aging well in the right light


shinebrightlike

Exactly lol


mynamestartswithaf

Remember guys, she’s “the other woman” in atleast 2 relationships.. she destroyed both relationships and married/long term partnership the men. Safe to say she’s not a girls girl. Google Kenneth Branagh and Tim burton relationship timeline before HBC.


procrastinating_b

Isn’t she transphobic yoo


VaguelyArtistic

And a Tory.


PomegranateOk1942

Ack! Made me find out. So, thank you. YES, SHE IS. A JK defender. Welp. She is royal somehow. Shouldn't be surprising.


Groundbreaking-Pie95

Ugh, did not know this until now (and googled it too, to not just rely on Reddit). God fucking damn it. Helena, why?


PomegranateOk1942

It is really horrifying to be her age (52) and to see where she and others like her have taken themselves - what they've allowed themselves to believe. It's nauseating.


mildlyoutraged

And defended Johnny Depp.


Invisible_Friend1

Most of Reddit did, initially. Was interesting watching the tide turn. Don’t meet your heroes is timeless advice.


Quanqiuhua

Depp still has the most sympathies on that case.


Much-Cut-960

'The other woman' isn't the one who destroys a relationship. It's the person who is in a committed relationship and decides to cheat.


mynamestartswithaf

That’s true.. but…. If it happens once, you can give her a pass of having shitty luck, but twice ? Her attraction to attached men is just toxic … by this point she needs to look in the mirror..


Responsible-Data-695

Especially considering that, iirc, she and Emma Thompson were good friends. I couldn't do that to a friend


SheWhoLovesSilence

But if her saying “no” is the only thing keeping the guy from cheating and/or leaving their partner, is that really doing the partner a kindness? Women shouldn’t be seeking out partnered men as far as I’m concerned, but they shouldn’t be expected to play relationship police to other people either. If some other woman’s lack of response is the only thing keeping my partner in line, that relationship is already rotten anyway


mynamestartswithaf

These men are rotten make no mistake but she was good friends with Emma Thompson when she enable Kenneth’s cheating .. like, dude her character is bad too.. come on.


tophaang

I don’t get your first point, yes, it is better to only be betrayed by one person close to you, instead of two. Yes, I’d say not sleeping with and stealing away your good friend’s spouse is doing them a kindness, even if they would otherwise go right out and cheat with someone else. I imagine it was rather hard for Emma Thompson to lose her husband and good friend in the same incident. Anyone in a relationship who knows they are the “other man/woman” is gross.


Yoghurt_Scary

Unless the committed person lied to the other woman and she had no knowledge of the existing relationship, then no. It is also the other woman’s fault as well. Women are not children, we have autonomy and intelligence. If you get with a person in a relationship you’re fully aware of what you’re doing.


anothertrytaken

Nope. It’s like a bank robbery- did you do the actual theft or did you just drive the getaway car? Either way you’re involved in the crime. People excusing this behavior is weird. Part of the reason infidelity is so accepted and brushed off as something that just happens naturally.


petitsfilous

Cheating accepted?! Every time there's a mention of Ariana, we get a thread of people moralising and talking about what a scumbag she is, lmao. I think this and the other sub are *perfectly* clear how they feel about cheating (and not shy about sharing) !


iamgina2020

You’re right, only the married person is the cheat, and only the ‘other woman/man’ is the one who makes themselves available, and helps to emotionally abuse an innocent person. It’s almost like a catch 22. No married people looking for affairs - No cheats. No-one making themselves available for married people to have affairs with - No cheats.


halnic

Those men destroyed their own relationships. She could not have been with them if they hadn't been willing to ruin their main story line for a side character. Her 'part' in the demise of their relationships could have been played by anyone. They were the main character that caused an end to their relationships. She's not a girl's girl - sure - but let's stop blaming the wrong people for breaking up homes. The call is coming from inside the house.


satanslefthandbitch

In these situations, both the cheater and the affair partner are at fault unless the cheater lied about being in a relationship and the affair partner had no idea. It’s gross and weird to defend people who do this repeatedly and act like they’ve done nothing wrong because they weren’t the ones who made vows. Saying HBC did something wrong doesn’t excuse the men who cheated with her. This thread is about her, not them, so of course she’s going to be the focus of the discussion.


Mariaayana

Yes and ‘aging well’ is such a weird statement. Puts out the idea that we might be doing it wrong. Just another version of body shaming.


Get_off_critter

The 5th image shows a little more reality. She's still stunning don't get me wrong! But you can see more texture and depth on her skin


phazonxiii

Airbrush and make-up. 👍


tatang2015

She will always be the crazy death eater in Harry Potter!!!


shinebrightlike

She’ll always always always be Marla Singer to me…


ProfessionalEmphasis

Getty doesn't photoshop their pics like that. Maybe some retouching but nothing magazine-worthy.


shinebrightlike

Source?


ProfessionalEmphasis

[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/30/getty-images-ban-photoshop-pictures](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/30/getty-images-ban-photoshop-pictures)


SpringPedal

Maybe, but there definitely plenty of beautiful older women we’ve seen in real life as well. I don’t see this same attitude with older men, who for the most part looked better when they were younger.


ohbroth3r

No they're not. And I've photographed her. Some are a little bit softened


Walkthroughthemeadow

I actually hate “look how well this millionaire celebrity is aging “ not only do they use photoshop , they’d have the best plastic surgeon in the world and regular Botox from a very young age , the best trainers and nutritionists and even with all that they still don’t look like their photo. It’s not impressive if a millionaire ages well if anything it’s more interesting to see the ones who don’t


frizoli

I agree with all of the above and want to add: I'm trying to untrain my brain from the concept of "aging well" and "she looks so good for -blank- age". I had the epiphany recently that it's a form of internalized misogyny. At least to me.


TiborJankovsky

I was JUST typing this response. Thank you!


InterestingTry5190

I don’t want to compliment anyone who supports Johnny Depp anyways.


Zillahi

Money is great for the skin


ProfessionalEmphasis

But don't people know that? I think people just want to be positive and complimentary. Aging female celebs are usually treated like garbage.


luciarossi

Aging women are treated like garbage because looks (and therefore youth) is what women are valued for. Saying she is aging well because she looks good/youthful just plays into this narrative. Men don't have to deal with this.


catmarstru

People truly believe things like if they have skin texture, then they have some skin problem to get rid of. Filters have ruined people’s perception of what an actual human looks like.


GirlisNo1

When we will reach the point that we can just compliment someone’s appearance without bringing age into it?


Bigassbird

Indeed. “She’s aging so well!” sounds very fucking patronising. Like “Gather round and view the old aged woman walking upright without sticks or support! Watch as she deigns to be photographed after full make-up glam squad. See the haggard crone look fit for public consumption.” I may be in a bad mood. ![gif](giphy|fNLlNICfZnGj6)


Dusty_Harvest

Same.. with the bad mood. Perhaps I’m being too critical but this post feels rather rude.


Bigassbird

Mine or OP’s?


rorii_sea

OP


falseprescience

No, I took it the same. It's a horseshit title and rude af.


parisismyfriend

But she's so pretty even though she's old af???? A whole granny????


ImHidingFromLife

Nah, can't you tell?? She's definitely a great-grandmother!!


ZenythhtyneZ

This BEAUTIFUL woman personally knew Helen of Troy, she’s like 600 years old, maybe she’s a mummy, but she looks so gOoOoOoD


serenadedbyaccordion

She's so beautiful despite being a disgusting 50-something woman who in reality should be a fat, wrinkly garbage can of failure. SO BEAUTIFUL. She might even actually have some worth as a person! /s


trolldoll26

“She’s aging so well” always makes me feel a little bit icky. Like…can’t we just be like “look at these great pictures of Helena” without saying she’s aging a certain way.


jatemple

![gif](giphy|xTiN0NOr8JabQstXVK|downsized)


Sketcha_2000

And if you notice all the “aging so well” posts about women are women in their 40s and 50s. Posts about men “aging so well” are about men in their 70s and 80s.


babecanoe

It’s so frustrating and tiring. This woman has lived a whole ass life and the most we can say about her is how well she’s aging. I don’t agree with all of HBC’s life choices but she is an extraordinary person and is worth so much more than “looking good for her age”.


BasicHaterade

Thank you. I am SO OVER THIS. I saw someone on TikTok saying an 85 year old woman looks amazing for her age. Like do you really honestly think she cares about that? I am in my 30s and already care a lot less. Young women of the world, please get a grip. Would it shock you to know that I LIKE my wrinkles and LIKE looking my age group? 


terfnerfer

She can get fecked. No way I'm doling out a compliment to this chronic tory / cheerleader of abusers. This final boss of Not Like Other Girls. This classist gobshite. Ps: here's Kathy Burke's response to Miss "infidelity" Bonham-Carter's claim that it's so hard :( being posh :(


terfnerfer

https://preview.redd.it/ui084u27d3rc1.jpeg?width=614&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=521946347038ecd70363a2f40f0fc31319eb441e


weribnom

She really said that? Baffling that anyone could honestly think people have better attitudes towards ugly and poor people


Rated_PG-Squirteen

It's not baffling when you consider how insular Helena Bonham Carter's life has been. Nothing but a world of unparalleled snobbery, supreme ignorance, and perpetual victimhood. This is how they are groomed to think.


PomegranateOk1942

❤️Kathy


Amy_Macadamia

Loved her on AbFab. She doesn't mince words


waluigi_wife

I love Kathy Burke.


One-Illustrator8358

She's also a supporter of rowling


terfnerfer

Ay lads, would you look at that. She's filled my entire bigot bingo card. ✨️🎉🎊


Icy_Treat9782

![gif](giphy|dtGIRL0FDp6nnOPGb5) I cackled.


PomegranateOk1942

Also apparently transphobic. As is the way with her echelon.


CollectionFull5254

Thank you


adom12

Was going to say, she keeps her youth from the younger men she’s stolen to date  Note - I’m half joking, I know the men are just as culpable or more 


homoboreanaz

thank you!!! she's a piece of shit in so many ways


mindylahiriMDbitch

Shame she’s a massive Tory / abuser supporter 😭 ETA- also a cheater and a transphobe- throw the whole woman out.


BellMaleficent1986

And what she did to Emma Thompson


mindylahiriMDbitch

I forgot all about that. Ugh she is kinda the worst tbh


BizMarkieDeSade

Don’t forget, HBC did the same with Lisa Marie/Tim Burton. ![gif](giphy|5GCBLceRFSfgA)


JUYED-AWK-YACC

I think Branagh deserves most of that scorn.


CollectionFull5254

And Depp


mindylahiriMDbitch

Aye he’s the abuser she’s supporting


ChiliAndGold

I'm glad people remember. I'm still so disappointed


Kaleighawesome

and apparently defended jk rowling so add on transphobe to that 😡


CallmeTunka

Someone fill me in?


BizMarkieDeSade

Supports Jk Rowling and Johnny Depp, pulled an Ari at least twice, and a Tory. Edit: who did this offend, I just answered the question with factual information 😂


23onAugust12th

Pulled an Ari 💀


Away_Pie_7464

What is a Tory?


wheresallthehotsauce

the British conservative political party.


kamel0

probably due to her lack of conscience


weasel999

Plastic surgeons hate this one trick


PomegranateOk1942

Lmao


SourNnasty

I mean yeah, but this is a professional photo shoot that has been photoshopped lol


stay_foxy-die_lonely

No you don’t get it! She is OLD, decrepit even! At 57 she should be in a wicker wheelchair to decompose gracefully!


SourNnasty

She’s literally a pile a of dust 😭😭


MazzieMay

She’s feeding off the joy of from other people’s relationships


gruenetage

🤣🤣🤣🤣 She walked so that Ari could run. And she defends JK Rowling.


0_usothheil_0

Thank goodness she’s aging well! And by “aging well”, we are referring to her outward appearance only. Because that’s what matters most to a woman: as long as they look good “for their age” and their skin is aging well, everything else falls into place.


parisismyfriend

Her support of Johnny Depp is not aging so well though


thousandthlion

The affair with Branagh was another low point


crackerfactorywheel

The way her relationship with Tim Burton started is also suspicious.


crackerfactorywheel

Nor is her being a Tory.


toldya_fareducation

or her support of JK Rowling.


Pleasant_Jump1816

She also stays out of the sun


Bigassbird

As a side note if I ever was a drag queen I’d be “Helluva Bottom Carter” ![gif](giphy|Mwr4lhknL6SnS)


deathbethemaiden

Too bad she’s a horrible person.


Reasonable-HB678

*She ruined everything.* ![gif](giphy|VvzG3ogfL7RdK) (BTW, this was the last time smoking looked cool.)


Choupster

This is photoshopped and even if it weren’t, she’s an awful woman


123123000123

I was worried that nobody was gonna bring up her being the worst but I should have known better 😂 


alittleverygagged

All I see is a transphobe


oreocerealluvr

Didn’t she get with a married man?


BizMarkieDeSade

Twice


oreocerealluvr

Oh boy…


noelee65

It's all bellatrix


Visible-Scientist-46

A great photographer can make magic with lighting and take years off your face - even withou photoshop. Also, isn't that her dress from A Room with a View? I'm a fan of her work, but am still angry she supported Johnny Depp. edit gif, dammit Reddit updates. ![gif](giphy|7JuadkNWnokDo6YDu6|downsized)


graveviolet

Yeah I'm pretty certain it's Room with a View, they're all such pretty edwardian dresses, she did a lot of merchant ivory period pieces but I think that's the only one where she predominantly wore white


Visible-Scientist-46

That's what you did in summer, wore a white lawn dress to stay cool and also play sports.


graveviolet

Lawn tennis with Cecil haha. I had a mini obsession in my teens with the young Italian couple on the cart to Fiesole they were both so beautiful like archetypes, Persephone and Adonis.


IBoughtIn

He smoked that cigar so alluringly, and her hair was such perfection!


Big_Feed9849

It does look like the dress... her costar in that died tragically not long ago.


SugarShock94

What does “aging so well” mean exactly? 🙄


VaguelyArtistic

She looks great for a TERF?


Icy_Blood_9248

She has always been attractive probably always will be


Loveisaction5050

Just lovely & simply beautiful!


Retinoid634

Ah her Lucy Honeychurch outfit. Iconic.


SnooGiraffes4091

Always stunning


Future-trippin24

I don't have it in me to celebrate her in any way. She's not a good person.


Thick_Basil3589

I find it so funny when people say “oh she is aging so well”, no people who have money for extensive skincare / surgery / botox / fillets and all sorts of stuff they age like this. This is not aging well, this is not accepting aging and trying to look 25 at age 50.


beakly

I will say she plays a maniacal elitist very well in Harry Potter


SukiLao

She’s a baddie


Icy-Kaleidoscope2182

i love her so muchhhhhhhhhhhh


HotdogbodyBoi

She’s for the streets.


greenmerica

She is THE WORST.


spacecowboi91

too bad she’s a TERF 🗑️


VaguelyArtistic

And a Tory. Which I guess goes hand in hand. 👎🏼


bittersweetjesus

Is she? That’s too bad


ArcadiaIsNotABot

Too bad she is transphobic and a tory


Beginning-Computer38

![gif](giphy|wzxK9cmYgIPDy)


bpnc33

I wish she would wear her hair down.


Immediate-Town4031

"Aging so well" = seemingly not aging at all? Beauty standards fucked.


Miserable-Isopod750

Some or all of these photos are filtered . I have always thought she was beautiful no matter what.


captainsocean

Need her skincare routine


AnimeChica3306

I loved her in Oceans 8.


Autumn_Forest_Mist

She looks very well.


SnooSuggestions9830

She has a great bone structure to begin with which helps prevent sagging. She's had Botox and probably a bunch of other treatments here too.


Competitive_Study190

She's always been a stunner


CougarWriter74

HBD HBC!!! 🎂 🥳


MichiganInTexas

I've loved her acting since she was Ophelia in Hamlet.


Lydia--charming

If I could go back and do something differently, I’d stay out of the sun. The spots are starting to show. She looks gorgeous!


Impossible_Leg9377

Her skin is amazing.


Total_Bite_6768

Comments like this are so weird to me. Like what is a 57 year old women supposed to look like?


k1nda-outta-luck

she’s so pretty istg. also i want that dress so bad lmaooo


tattoosaremyhobby

Nah we don’t stan a home wrecker ✋ Edit- and a transphobe I see from these comments! Yeah no. Let’s let this detestable woman fade away.


toosexyformyboots

Only because she’s got so much money! Lotta respect for her but it is okay for women to have wrinkles :)


ladolcevitaaaaa

She has them and still looks great :)


FormicaDinette33

For sure. She is the coolest. Cracked me up in Fight Club.


LittleBoo1204

I would never have imagined that she was that old! Age doesn’t matter and the imbalance in the standard put on women compared to men is archaic, but she looks phenomenal!!


Zestyclose_Look_7719

I love her, but it’s called having a very good plastic surgeon. 57 year old women do not look like this. Ever! Unless, they’ve had extensive plastic surgery. You can’t achieve this, ladies! This is not realistic for most people.


SolidusTengu

https://preview.redd.it/fzid5p9w14rc1.jpeg?width=859&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17a1589598fd16aebd6006b2f0333b8831d37aee


[deleted]

She is my all time crush. Her role in Fight Club made me absolutely worship her. Yes I know she’s a ghoul in real life.


altdultosaurs

I’m sooo tired of her tbh. I haven’t seen her do anything that isn’t just Quirky Lady Big Hair So Quirky in years.


rk_countdracula

i dont like her, but i gotta admit, shes hot


[deleted]

That's her Lucy Honeychurch dress. How lovely


badgaldididi

Yes, she is very well preserved 😂


nah_champa_967

I love her, we are the same age, but some of these photos are so filtered they make her look 20. You can't look to Hollywood for evidence of people aging well or not.


23onAugust12th

Sexiest woman alive.


jjhm928

On one hand this place always talks about how terrible the expectations we put on older women are in regards to aging and then on the other hand we go insane praising any middle aged women who looks younger than her age. This subreddit *constantly* has posts and comments on whether aging celebrities look young for their age. It is literally a *given* that it will be brought up on anything related to a female celebrity over 40. It is spaces like this (femme dominated pop culture spaces) that make women feel bad for aging more than anything. The same spaces which pretend to be progressive on this issue are always the ones who focus the most on this stuff. It's just sad because we blame the patriarchy, we blame misogyny, we blame sexism etc for this shit but then we end up being literally the worst perpetrators.


wavesofrye

Can we please stop posting about how women over 40 are aging so well. They are rich, have access to the best cosmetic treatments and use photoshop. We should celebrate their accomplishments and personalities!


Dionysiac_Thinker

https://preview.redd.it/vlzbmk6s64rc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97167379877503cac1aced61e2c0bebb5bed697c


in2xs

Beautiful but, I smell cigarettes. Still would though…am I right??!!


zaphod4th

money helps


ohno_xoxo

She does look amazing but you can see her plastic surgery scars under her chin in that Enola Holmes movie. She’s had fantastic work done over the years.


rose-buds

omg i used to looooooove her back in the day - i haven’t kept up with her at all so i’m learning a lot in this thread. guess i haven’t missed much!


MeesterBacon

I mean… is she though? Isn’t this plastic surgery and photoshop?