Curse of the Joker smile! How lips plumped-up with filler make celebrities including Catherine Zeta-Jones and Cameron Diaz look like a Batman villain
- Catherine Zeta-Jones sported an enhanced pout at a recent showbiz bash
- But the British beauty’s new look bears a sinister likeness
- Are celebs being struck by the Curse of the terrifying Joker smile?
20 May2020
With her peaches and cream complexion and rosebud lips, Catherine Zeta-Jones has long been regarded as the epitome of beauty.
Since she rose to fame more than 20 years ago in the British TV series The Darling Buds Of May, she has starred in as many beauty advertisements as she has films, with women seeking to emulate her style.
But appearing at the Actors Fund Annual Gala in New York last week, she was sporting a startlingly different look.
Catherine Zeta-Jones has long been regarded as the epitome of beauty, but appearing at the Actors Fund Annual Gala in New York last week, she was sporting a startlingly different look
Her figure was as curvaceous as ever, but her face was almost unrecognisable.
She had that eerily immobile, wrinkle-free forehead that makes so many Hollywood stars look like fashion store mannequins.
Her cheeks sat like ping-pong balls under stretched, lifeless skin. But the most alarming aspect of her look was her lips — taut yet bulbous, with ends that appeared to be dragged up into a sinister slash, last seen when Jack Nicholson played the Joker in the 1989 movie Batman.
Not that Catherine Zeta-Jones is the only celebrity to be transformed. It seems this ‘Joker face’ has become the latest signature style of Hollywood A-listers.
‘Joker face’ has become the latest signature style of Hollywood A-listers with their pouts that appear taut yet bulbous, and corners of mouths that appear to have been dragged up into a sinister slash
Even actress Cameron Diaz has fallen foul to the Joker look, caused by ‘anti-ageing’ surgical enhancements
The wind tunnel look — caused by surgery to remove lines around the eyes by pulling back the skin — has been replaced by slightly crazed, knife-edged smiles produced by a combination of too much filler, Botox and ill-judged surgery on the lips.
‘The Joker faces we see are a result of too much plastic surgery,’ says Dr Aamer Khan, of the Harley Street Skin Clinic.’
The distinctive joke ‘smile’ occurs when the corners of the top lip are pulled up by muscles in the cheeks, while the rest of the lip remains static.
‘The Joker faces we see are a result of too much plastic surgery,’ says Dr Aamer Khan, of the Harley Street Skin Clinic.’ Pictured: Actress Melanie Griffiths who appears to be sporting the trend
This is because the top lip, injected with filler, can’t move naturally. Therefore, the movement at the corners of the mouth is much more pronounced.
Added to this is the effect created by plumped-out pillow cheeks, which again, cannot move naturally, and so accentuate the grimace .
‘The reasons for the rise of this look are myriad, from pressure to look a certain way in Hollywood to the fact that a lot of these stars have a form of secondary dysmorphia, where they have played with their image so much they have lost a sense of what they really look like,’ says Dr Khan.
Movie stars Nicole Kidman and Meg Ryan both sport the Joker face, which surgeons say is down to ancombination of too much filler, Botox and ill-judged surgery on the lips
Her figure was as curvaceous as ever, but her face was almost unrecognisable.
She had that eerily immobile, wrinkle-free forehead that makes so many Hollywood stars look like fashion store mannequins.
Catherine Zeta-Jones is the scarlet lady in red prom dress
‘Joker face’ has become the latest signature style of Hollywood A-listers with their pouts that appear taut yet bulbous, and corners of mouths that appear to have been dragged up into a sinister slash
Added to this is the effect created by plumped-out pillow cheeks, which again, cannot move naturally, and so accentuate the grimace .
‘The reasons for the rise of this look are myriad, from pressure to look a certain way in Hollywood to the fact that a lot of these stars have a form of secondary dysmorphia, where they have played with their image so much they have lost a sense of what they really look like,’ says Dr Khan.
‘But if one doctor tells them not to have more work, they have the money to go elsewhere and pay for a botched job.’It’s clear many of them have become addicted to looking younger — whatever the cost.’
And when you end up looking like Jack Nicholson at his most devilish, that’s a pretty high price to pay . . .
‘If one doctor tells them not to have more work, they have the money to go elsewhere and pay for a botched job,’ says Dr Khan of celebs like Dolly Parton who have overdone the cosmetic surgery
Britt Ekland appears to be suffering from lack of movement in her top lip, which after being injected with filler often can’t move naturally, making the movement of the corners of the mouth much more pronounced
Anjelica Huston epitomises the ‘Joker face’; Priscilla Presley’s puffed cheeks accentuate her lips
