The fact that Megan Fox does not use Botox - Plastic surgeon Dr. Val Lambros of Newport Beach said he’s undecided about whether the photos are fake, but the pattern of wrinkles in the top photo “looks odd to me” while a second one “looks bogus. Frown lines just don’t look like that and if you look at the position of the medial brows [the part closest to the nose], they do not seem to move.”
The doctors’ doubts are in response to four photos that Fox, 25, posted on her Facebook page last week, showing herself scowling and raising her eyebrows. She labeled the photos “Things You Can’t Do with Your Face When You Have Botox.”
Some doctors interpreted the photos as showing a Botox patient in whom the effects of the wrinkle-smoothing drug are starting to fade.
“This photo [top] is totally consistent with the wrinkle pattern you will see in someone whose Botox has begun wearing off,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow of Newport Beach. “When you have Botox to the entire face, different parts wear off at different rates and can give you a strangish-looking pattern of wrinkles until it all wears off. I bet this photo was taken the day before her Botox appointment.
“She’s a beautiful girl and should ease up on the Botox and obvious filler she has in her lips,” Dubrow said. “She’s starting to look a bit alien and should consider parking her spaceship for a while.”
Plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente and Orange said, “Maybe Ms. Fox has just shown us that she has not done her usual whole forehead Botox but now has scaled back to just the glabella [the area between the eyebrows]. I believe this explains the foreign appearance best.”
In the top photo, “it looks like the Botox is wearing off but part of the effect is still in,” Di Saia said.
A second photo of Fox frowning looks like a patient from several years ago whom Di Saia injected only between the eyebrows, he said.
Plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Tony Youn of Michigan is one of the few doctors who has stated that he believes Fox.
“Photos appear to confirm that she’s either never had Botox injections or they’ve worn off. People with Botox in their forehead or other frown lines cannot make facial movements like she’s demonstrating in the photos,” he said.
Dr. Christopher Zachary, chairman of the UCI Department of Dermatology, suggests that Fox should actually stop using Botox, not just say she abstains.
“This young lady probably has a few decades of living to do before she needs to worry about Botox,” he said. “But that might not stop some cosmetic surgeons from suggesting it. My advice … leave well alone til you really need it!”
Some doctors said the photos show a face in which the effects of Botox injections are slowly wearing off. Many others said one photo (top left) displays such unnatural wrinkle patterns that the image apparently has been digitally altered.
“Looks like Megan is just as talented with Photoshop as she is in entertainment,” said plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Nicholas Vendemia of New York. “Those lines on her forehead are totally fake. … Muscles in the forehead and brow simply don’t create curved wrinkles like that. The wrinkles Megan is showing us don’t coincide with brow anatomy, nor do they match the facial expression she is making.”
Dermatologist Dr. Vince Afsahi of Tustin and Newport Beach said, “The photo looks altered. The muscles in the forehead do not usually create an arc-like pattern seen in the photo. … Anatomically [it] does not make sense.”
Dermatologic surgeon Dr. David Sire of Fullerton said, “I have never seen the frontalis [forehead] muscle do this unless the muscle was surgically cut. It appears as if she is frowning and elevating her brow at the same time. Quite a feat!”
The doctors’ doubts are in response to four photos that Fox, 25, posted on her Facebook page last week, showing herself scowling and raising her eyebrows. She labeled the photos “Things You Can’t Do with Your Face When You Have Botox.”
Some doctors interpreted the photos as showing a Botox patient in whom the effects of the wrinkle-smoothing drug are starting to fade.
“This photo [top] is totally consistent with the wrinkle pattern you will see in someone whose Botox has begun wearing off,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow of Newport Beach. “When you have Botox to the entire face, different parts wear off at different rates and can give you a strangish-looking pattern of wrinkles until it all wears off. I bet this photo was taken the day before her Botox appointment.
“She’s a beautiful girl and should ease up on the Botox and obvious filler she has in her lips,” Dubrow said. “She’s starting to look a bit alien and should consider parking her spaceship for a while.”
Plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente and Orange said, “Maybe Ms. Fox has just shown us that she has not done her usual whole forehead Botox but now has scaled back to just the glabella [the area between the eyebrows]. I believe this explains the foreign appearance best.”
In the top photo, “it looks like the Botox is wearing off but part of the effect is still in,” Di Saia said.
A second photo of Fox frowning looks like a patient from several years ago whom Di Saia injected only between the eyebrows, he said.
Plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Tony Youn of Michigan is one of the few doctors who has stated that he believes Fox.
“Photos appear to confirm that she’s either never had Botox injections or they’ve worn off. People with Botox in their forehead or other frown lines cannot make facial movements like she’s demonstrating in the photos,” he said.
Dr. Christopher Zachary, chairman of the UCI Department of Dermatology, suggests that Fox should actually stop using Botox, not just say she abstains.
“This young lady probably has a few decades of living to do before she needs to worry about Botox,” he said. “But that might not stop some cosmetic surgeons from suggesting it. My advice … leave well alone til you really need it!”
Some doctors said the photos show a face in which the effects of Botox injections are slowly wearing off. Many others said one photo (top left) displays such unnatural wrinkle patterns that the image apparently has been digitally altered.
“Looks like Megan is just as talented with Photoshop as she is in entertainment,” said plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Nicholas Vendemia of New York. “Those lines on her forehead are totally fake. … Muscles in the forehead and brow simply don’t create curved wrinkles like that. The wrinkles Megan is showing us don’t coincide with brow anatomy, nor do they match the facial expression she is making.”
Dermatologist Dr. Vince Afsahi of Tustin and Newport Beach said, “The photo looks altered. The muscles in the forehead do not usually create an arc-like pattern seen in the photo. … Anatomically [it] does not make sense.”
Dermatologic surgeon Dr. David Sire of Fullerton said, “I have never seen the frontalis [forehead] muscle do this unless the muscle was surgically cut. It appears as if she is frowning and elevating her brow at the same time. Quite a feat!”
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