We used to think that beautiful actresses were just lucky to be born with perfect looks and talent, because they are simply doomed to fame and success. But not everything is so simple! Each star had and has its own quirks and grievances.
Greta Garbo is one of the 25 greatest actresses who have made the greatest contribution to the development of American cinema. It is difficult to say what influenced her deafening success more, but her dazzling appearance did not leave anyone indifferent. This Hollywood film star had such a rare beauty that, in terms of the proportions of her face and body, she fit all the canons of ancient art.
In fact, this image was created thanks to another talented person – her husband, director Moritz Stiller. Until the age of 17, Greta Garbo unsuccessfully fought overweight, was a large rural girl with a lot of complexes. “I grew up as a strange child. She hardly slept, wandered around the house at night. Stretching literally for a year, I was taller than all my classmates, but I was very weak, suffered from severe anemia, ”Greta Garbo later recalled. Stiller forced the aspiring fashion model to go on a tough diet, after which Greta acquired new forms and kept them for her entire long life. True, envious people found flaws in this too – they say, broad shoulders, narrow hips and 42nd foot size make the actress’s figure more like a man’s. By the way, Garbo for some reason spoke about herself in a masculine way.
What else to add: impeccable beauty did not affect her character – Greta Garbo was a closed, uncommunicative person, a misanthrope. She made a decent condition for herself, but this did not bring her happiness – she lived for 84 years, died alone.
In her youth, the German woman Mary Magdalene could boast of a pretty face and beautiful legs, which she willingly showed. She was pretty, funny, moderately well-fed and not quite like the Marlene who conquered the world. After her first film, Little Napoleon, was released in Europe in 1922, the young actress was dissatisfied with her appearance: “God, I look like a hairy potato.” And already before going to Hollywood, 28-year-old Mary Magdalene transformed herself: she began with the name, shortening it to Marlene, lost several sizes (and it was also said that she had to remove two ribs for the wasp waist) and pulled out several root teeth in order to make the cheekbones look more prominent, introduced men’s trouser suits into her wardrobe.
Then she will wear a corset with rubber pads, and her figure will always look perfectly slim, follow the nutrition. And Dietrich smoked a lot, this affected blood circulation, after a long walk on stiletto heels, her legs became twice as thick from edema, and the aching pain did not give rest. But the star did not give up – she did salt baths, they helped to relieve puffiness, and put on her shoes again.
We remember her for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, for which she received a well-deserved Oscar. Meanwhile, the producers were in no hurry to approve the extraordinary beauty. She had a nasty reputation as an actress who was difficult to work with. The fact is that the young girl suffered from bouts of manic depression and melancholy. She later fell ill with tuberculosis, poor health and nervous tension contributed to an unbalanced character. But despite this, Vivien Leigh starred in 20 films and gained fame as a talented theater actress.
At school, no one would have thought to consider Brigitte a beauty. Why is there at school, even the parents have come to terms with this fact. The girl suffered from strabismus and poor eyesight, so she wore corrective glasses with thick lenses, because of the wrong bite and large teeth, she was given metal braces. Bardo’s hair was also not distinguished by beauty: inexpressive color and straight as sticks. The girl suffered a lot and was jealous of her sister, she, unlike Brigitte, was a real beauty. But the future star was naturally plastic and flexible. She studied Bardot unimportantly, but she studied choreography and ballet diligently. This helped her in her acting career. Strabismus was corrected by the age of 17, the bite gave charm and individuality, but the figure, posture and other delights did their job!
It is a well-known fact that the most famous woman on the planet of the twentieth century had mental problems. To this, Norma Jinn (real name) had a hereditary predisposition: mother and grandmother suffered from schizophrenia, and some close relatives committed suicide. Norma was so afraid of these family surprises that she disowned all her relatives. But it was not possible to renounce depressions. As well as from feelings of self-doubt.
She was not by nature such a brilliant beauty as we see her on the screen. She had to work hard on her image. Firstly, with a height of 160 cm, she weighed 62 kg, not skinny, in general, secondly, she repainted her brown-haired redhead in blond, and thirdly, she corrected the oval of her face by inserting silicone implants into her cheekbones and chin. Marilyn Monroe got an opportunity to work on her “beauty” while shooting her first films. In particular, she was given a snow-white smile. The girl had protruding upper incisors and not crystal-colored teeth, but the studio paid for all dental services. And in 1949, the actress underwent plastic surgery to remove a mole from the tip of the nose and correct the oval of the face. Well, the weight, she fought with him and in her best years weighed a little more than 53 kg.
In childhood and adolescence, a girl with a doll beauty was in order. Outwardly, she gave the impression of a fairy from a fairy tale: a white-skinned face with purple eyes and black curly hair. Elizabeth had a rare eye color, some called it blue, some called violet, but definitely no one else had such eyes. And the girl also had a genetic disorder of distichiasis – two rows of eyelashes, which should have caused inconvenience, scratching the eyeball, but Taylor’s eyelashes were located successfully, making her look more open, framed by lush eyelashes.
Thanks to her parents-actors, the girl began to act in films early, her career was developing successfully. But the older the Hollywood queen became, the more her health let down. In an interview with People magazine, Elizabeth Taylor said: “There are few people in the world who have suffered as much as I have. Countless pneumonia, back surgery, eye surgery, knee and foot surgery. My tonsils and appendix were removed. I had a cesarean section three times and a tracheotomy once. My uterus has been partially removed. I suffered from measles and dysentery. Not to mention the treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. I had brain surgery two years after the artificial joints were implanted in my thighs. And then they operated on to correct the implants. “
Her health was broken by war and famine in occupied Holland. To cheat hunger, the girl drank a lot of water. At the same time, she literally studied ballet to exhaustion. For Audrey, this period turned into metabolic disorders and unhealthy thinness: with a height of 170 cm, she weighed only 44 kilograms, had a waist of 50 cm and wore the 44th clothing size all her life.
Growth did not allow her to become a prima ballerina, which the girl dreamed of. But Hepburn became the greatest actress of our time and style icon. Although at first the stylists were embarrassed by the 40th size of her feet – the shoes did not look elegant. But then a unique model with a rounded toe was made for her, which visually made the foot smaller. And the claims to Audrey were from makeup artists who strove to pluck her thick eyebrows. But the actress flatly refused, and then such eyebrows as hers became a role model for millions of fans.
The first star of Soviet cinema, which became an era, the people simply idolized her and did not know that the image was completely copied from the Hollywood diva Marlene Dietrich. The enterprising and perceptive director Grigory Aleksandrov made from a generally gray mouse the brightest star of all time.
She came from a noble family, but the difficult revolutionary years made the family impoverished, and the future actress had to work hard, feel the need for everything, and this could not but affect the appearance of the young Orlova. In addition, she had a rare disease that caused dizziness and unstable coordination of the body and vestibular apparatus. By the time she met Alexandrov, she was already 30 years old. And he made a star out of her without age. He asked me to dye Lyubov’s dark blond hair to blond, to get a haircut.
Lyubov Orlova’s height was only 158 cm, but on the screen it was imperceptible, like many other imperfections in appearance such as mimic, and later age wrinkles, circles under the eyes, etc. frames. Therefore, a real movie star was looking at us from the screens – tall, slender, dazzlingly beautiful Orlova. The actress watched her weight and appearance in general with anxiety: diet, classes at the machine. And what could not be corrected, for example, ugly hands, she hid under gloves.
Even such a beauty as perfect in every sense as Sophia Loren, and she once had a terribly complex because of her height of 174 cm.In those days, petite girls were in fashion, and Sofia Villani Shicolone (her real name) was, albeit thin but high. For which she received the nickname Perch. True, she did not have to suffer for a long time, the men began to stare at the Italian beauty early. And by the age of 20, she was already confident enough in herself.
“Nothing beautifies a woman like her belief in her own dignity,” said Lauren and refused to lose weight and operate on her nose. And the producers very much hinted about it to her. And by the way, until now, Sophia Loren has not done a single plastic surgery.
The actress looks young and attractive. And it’s hard to guess her real age. And although she herself denies surgical intervention in her appearance, experts assure that many operations have been performed. First, the young Demi Moore got rid of strabismus, then, probably, corrected the tip of her nose, then corrected the oval of her face with fillers. For the filming of the film “Striptease”, the actress noticeably increased her first size bust, then changed implants and did a breast lift, which changed shape after Moore’s three births. She also had several liposuction and abdominoplasty (abdominal correction). Demi Moore also often turns to cosmetologists and makes chemical peels and Botox injections.