And even if she did, who cares?
That is the message Renée Zellweger hopes to get across in an essay she penned for the The Huffington Post titled “We Can Do Better”.
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The 47-year-old actress targeted tabloids for their coverage of her rumoured plastic surgery, calling it irrelevant: “Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I did not make a decision to alter my face and have surgery on my eyes… This fact is of no true import to anyone at all, but that the possibility alone was discussed among respected journalists and became a public conversation is a disconcerting illustration of news/entertainment confusion and society’s fixation on physicality.”
She also argued that having respected media outlets devote time to these stories paints an unhealthy expectation of appearance for young people: “…Repetition of humiliating tabloid stories, mean-spirited judgments, and false information is not harmless… It increasingly takes airtime away from the countless significant unprecedented current events affecting our world. It saturates our culture, perpetuates unkind and unwise double standards, lowers the level of social and political discourse, standardizes cruelty as a cultural norm, and inundates people with information that does not matter.”
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Zellweger says although society has evolved to acknowledge the significance of women there is still a double standard: “It’s no secret a woman’s worth has historically been measured by her appearance.”
The actress will next appear in the British romantic comedy “Bridget Jones’s Baby”.
