Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz And Emma Thompson Form 'British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League'

She's spoken about body image in Hollywood in the past, and now actress Kate Winslet is railing against plastic surgery too.

The Oscar-winning actress says she has joined forces with friends and fellow Oscar-winners, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz to form what she calls the, "British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League," reports The Telegraph.

"I will never give in," Winslet told the paper. "It [cosmetic surgery] goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty ... I am an actress, I don't want to freeze the expressions of my face."

Emma Thompson also weighed in on their league explaining, "I'm not fiddling about with myself. We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60."

The British actresses may have formed an actual league but they aren't the only ones in Hollywood fed up with cosmetic surgery.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly told a German edition of OK! , " And I still refuse to use silicone, Botox or other of those gimmicks out of pure vanity," but she conceded, "but a breast correction after breast feeding — why not?"

And actress Salma Hayek, who is on the cover of the September issue of Allure magazine, also spoke candidly about her thoughts on plastic surgery.

She told the magazine, "I've never had anything on my face -- I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing. I believe that every woman is entitled to fight to preserve her youth. It’s [plastic surgery] like the uniform of a generation. And it’s not necessarily beautiful. It’s not wrinkled-looking, but it’s not beautiful.”

Check out some stars who have admitted to having plastic surgery:

Heidi Montag

Heidi got ten procedures on November 20 including: a brow lift, nose job revision, boob job revision, botox, lipo on stomach and thighs, cheek and lip injections, ear pinning, chin reduction, neck lipo and butt augmentation.

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[lallimj]

11:21 PM on 09/22/2011

This is completely phoney. Remember the Kate Winslet "Vogue" last year where she was "air brushed" to look like a young Catherine Denueve? And Emma Thompson is a complete joke, because she's obviously had her teeth capped since her "Howard's End" days. I agree with other posters who said, "why split hairs." You can't make the claim that you would never have X done, when you have had Y done. For that matter, why dye your hair, if "au naturel" (in this case, the color you were born with) is so wonderful?

[Makenzie]

01:34 PM on 08/30/2011

I love all of those actresses, but I don't think it's fair for stars to act like cosmetic surgery is a horrible thing for someone to do.

Most celebrities get facials, microdermabrasion and peels on a regular basis. Their skin is going to look better "naturally" than a woman at 50 who didn't have treatments like that on a regular basis. So if someone who couldn't afford anti-aging treatments their whole life turns 50 or 60 and can now afford an eye lift, or a neck lift to boost their self-esteem, why is that wrong?
Both are doing it in the name of maintaining a youthful look -- one just did it preventively. There are plenty of procedures that don't freeze the facial muscles and/or create a pulled + pinched look.

[queenofhardrock]

04:06 AM on 08/30/2011

[Ally Gillotte]

04:25 PM on 08/25/2011

I just want to say that Paltrow makes a mistaken assumption - pregnancy changes your breasts, not breastfeeding. Really common fallacy.

[joannevlavender]

01:43 PM on 08/20/2011

CA cosmetic surgeons lead the charge on holding the line against aging. In the Inland Empire, they are always hawking post-maternal cosmetic correction.

I personally wish that women would understand that there is beauty in every age. Wisdom/life experience brought gentleness to my grandmother's eyes. Her cheeks had the natural blush of English roses. She wore no makeup; she had no corrective surgery. Her hair was silver and her eyes were cornflower blue, and met yours with the simple honesty and love that was part of her.

THAT's what I want to look like. Not some pushed-up, frozen-faced, liposuctioned parody of womanhood.

[TaurusRose]

07:02 AM on 08/20/2011

they left out that plastic surgery leaves a young woman looking older, not to mention really ugly.

[TRhett]

06:26 AM on 08/20/2011

I love Gwyneth's arbitrary distinction between nothing for "vanity" and "breast correction . . . why not?" LOL

[TRhett]

06:18 AM on 08/20/2011

OK Kate - I respect your decision, but I think you've picked a mission that will be a waste of time. I don't think the plastic surgery epidemic is going to slow any time soon, despite your indignant stance. Don't get your hopes up too high.

[TaurusRose]

07:04 AM on 08/20/2011

The one thing that contradicts your opinion is that these people cannot escape how ugly those procedures make them look. If that doesn't slow it down, then I agree with you, nothing will.

[Jene88]

10:46 PM on 08/19/2011

These are relatively young women speaking. I'd like to hear them when they're 50 and older.
Somehow, the points you held on to so earnestly in youth, or middles age, change when reality hits. Let's hear from them later, much later.

[Chemical Viking]

02:18 PM on 08/24/2011

Emma Thompson is young?

[Cyn de Harven]

04:53 PM on 08/19/2011

At least two thirds of that group have had botox and fillers injected.

I bet they don't count those as "plastic surgery" though. Nice side step.

[TRhett]

06:19 AM on 08/20/2011

Reminds me of the time I read that at least 50% of the people at any given AA meeting are drunk . . .

[dkrypt]

10:28 AM on 08/19/2011

Kate Winslet, who looks nothing like Kate Winslet anymore, and hasn't for years? What, she learned her lesson?

[Skyski]

08:33 PM on 08/18/2011

That's because right now she doesn't need it. She will have no choice but to change her mind when the wrinkles start to appear. Our society is so youth oriented that she will be forced into getting some work done. The entertainment industry is always looking for the next new face, and when her's starts to crack she will have no option but to buy into the idea.

[Kittyburger]

07:45 AM on 08/19/2011

Kate Winslet? Not likely. I'd be skeptical if it were coming from someone other than her, but not from her. She's certainly spoken out (and acted) against the artificial beauty standards of the film industry that claim that a very attractive woman in excellent physical shape is "fat" just because she's not in the middle of starving herself to death.

[GeorgeSmiley2010]

02:15 PM on 08/18/2011

...like to see thissgallpull this off when shes pushing sixty.

[PKJ1980]

02:12 PM on 08/18/2011

When you look like Kate Winslet why would you want surgery?

[ButterLefcowitz]

09:49 AM on 08/20/2011

You wouldn't becasue you've already had it. That's not the nose she was born with. Same for Rachel Weisz. At least Gwyneth Paltrow wears her hypocrisy on her sleeve.

[PKJ1980]

11:23 AM on 08/20/2011

So she's lying? She looks good so if she had it she should just say so

[The Revolving Diet]

01:19 PM on 08/18/2011

Plastic Surgery is a choice and in many of hollywood actor/actresses and non-hollywood peoples cases, they take it too far. Nature will take it's course and can make someone that has gotten too much plastic surgery look freakish. Take Jocelyn Wildenstein - she was a beautiful woman and then had a ton of procedures done on her face and it's just a shame what the surgery and time has done. She is one of many that as the years go by, nature can wreck havoc on "adjusted" faces.

Plastic surgery should be used for medical matters, not extreme vanity. Work wht you have and be happy with you. You never know what you will end up with if someone takes a knife to your face.

[TRhett]

06:22 AM on 08/20/2011

I agree - look at Megan Fox - she was so beautiful . . . now, she's starting to look like that scary Wildenstein (or whatever) catwoman in New York that they love to plaster on magazines as a cautionary example of plastic surgery addiction (which is an indication of deeper problems, but still . . . ).