Beauty is defined as more than the absence of wrinkles, including being smart and strong. She acknowledges natural changes that come with aging and understands that beauty extends beyond appearance. She works out and uses non-surgical options such as face peels, while avoiding going under the knife due to fear. Aging also affects how she feels about her body, especially during filming intimate scenes, because physical changes require additional support. She recognizes pressure on women to alter their appearance and supports procedures only when they are done for personal reasons. She worries about overdoing treatments and losing her natural look, citing past experiences with Botox that changed her expression. She also describes embracing aging as rebellious in a youth-obsessed culture.
"“For me, beauty meant being smart and being strong but I acknowledge that there are changes. I fully understand that beauty is so much more than just not having wrinkles,” Shields said. “Listen, I work out, I get face peels, I mean I haven't gone under the knife. It seems tempting but I'm too scared!”"
"“I think I'm probably more self-conscious now than I was when I was younger because things need to be lifted, so I've got to have a pulley system to lift 'the girls' up,” she said. “I think I'm probably more self-conscious now than I was when I was younger because things need to be lifted, so I've got to have a pulley system to lift 'the girls' up,” she said."
"“But I think it's easy to go down the slope of overdoing it. I'm scared of not looking like myself; the times that I've had Botox, I end up with this Spock eye and I'm like, 'I don't look like myself.' But I'll get Fraxels, and peels, and whatever the newest thing is, and I'll try it. I just don't want to not look like myself,” she said."
"“But our society has become so myopically focused on youth, we lose sight of the value that comes with”"
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