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Melanie Griffith was everywhere in the late eighties and early nineties, and people just loved her. She had this soft, natural look that made her feel more like a real person than a distant movie star. I remember her in movies like “Working Girl” with that big blonde hair and expressive face; she really captured a specific moment in pop culture. Back then, aging wasn’t something people talked about as much because she was young and at the top of her game. But Hollywood is a tough place for women as they get older, and Melanie was one of the first big stars of her generation to really get scrutinized for every single line or change that showed up on her face as the years started to pass. It’s a lot of pressure to put on one person, especially when their entire career is tied to how they look on a giant screen.
By the time the late nineties and early two-thousands rolled around, the conversation around Melanie changed from her acting talent to her appearance. Like a lot of women in the industry, she felt the massive pressure to stay looking twenty-five forever, and she’s been pretty honest about the fact that she made some choices she later regretted. She once admitted in an interview that she didn’t realize how far things had gone until people started making cruel comments about her face. It must be incredibly hard to have your features picked apart by millions of strangers while you’re just trying to navigate middle age. She eventually started working to reverse some of those procedures, showing a level of vulnerability and honesty that you don’t always see from big celebrities who usually try to hide everything.
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