Renée Zellweger may be back in the spotlight after her acclaimed performance as Judy Garland in Judy, but from 2010 to 2016, she went on hiatus from Hollywood. Her successful turns in classics like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Cold Mountain launched her to A-list status, but the effects of stardom ultimately inspired the Oscar winner to take some time off to take care of her health, both mentally and physically. In September 2019, she told Vulture,
“I wasn’t healthy. I wasn’t taking care of myself. I was the last thing on my list of priorities…I spent 99% of my life as the public persona and just a microscopic crumb of a fraction in my real life. I needed to not have something to do all the time.”
However, when Zellweger reemerged briefly for Elle magazine’s annual Women In Hollywood event in 2014, she became the talk of the town because, to many observers, she didn’t look quite like herself. Plastic surgery rumors immediately dominated the celebrity news cycle, as both reporters and doctors speculated about the exact procedures Zellweger had done to alter her face so drastically.
But while spectators were quick to criticize her face, they refused to face Zellweger’s truth. After the initial buzz, Zellweger offered People an exclusive statement, in which she boasted about her happier, healthier lifestyle, saying,
“I’m glad folks think I look different! I’m living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I’m thrilled that perhaps it shows.”
She subsequently called the rumors “silly,” adding,
“It seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth which doesn’t exist won’t get off my porch until I answer the door…My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy. For a long time I wasn’t doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn’t allow for taking care of myself…People don’t know me [as] healthy for a while. Perhaps I look different. Who doesn’t as they get older?!…But I am different. I’m happy.”
Unfortunately, because of the unyielding media frenzy, Zellweger ultimately wrote an op-ed for The Huffington Post, in which she stated,
“Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I did not make a decision to alter my face and have surgery on my eyes.”
Though she didn’t refer to the plastic-surgery drama outright during her interview with Vulture, Zellweger addressed the overwhelming scrutiny that inspired her to set her priorities straight, explaining,
“Nothing like international humiliation to set your perspective right! It clarifies what’s important to you. And it shakes off any sort of clingy superficiality…When it gets to be too much, when you learn that your skin is not quite as thick as you need it to be, what is that gonna feel like? Well, now I know. I got the hardest kick. And it ain’t the end.”
Once the reporter broached the topic specifically, however, Zellweger responded in kind, saying,
“It probably gives you a stomachache, asking me about that, doesn’t it?…The implication that I somehow needed to change what was going on because it wasn’t working. That makes me sad. I don’t look at beauty in that way. And I don’t think of myself in that way. I like my weird quirkiness, my off-kilter mix of things. It enables me to do what I do. I don’t want to be something else.”
In a radio interview with Sirius XM, Zellweger revealed that she once heard random strangers discussing her face on the subway. According to her, they were talking about “silly” Hollywood women, and allegedly mentioned her specifically, saying,
“‘How could she do that? Why would she go and have surgery on her face like we wouldn’t know?”
The strangers were shocked when they ended up recognizing Zellweger on the train, and they told her:
As she told Vulture, the entire experience has only helped her lead a much happier, more private life. She revealed,
“I had a good five-year period when I was joyful and in a new chapter that no one was even aware of.”
Watch the video to see What Renee Zellweger Said When Asked About Her Plastic Surgery!
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