Halle Berry says she will never agree to cosmetic surgery.
American actress Halle Berry is drop-dead gorgeous, so it is hard to imagine her dealing with insecurities or even contemplating about plastic surgery.
But the actress has admitted that there is a lot of pressure in being beautiful, especially in their industry, so even the best of them entertain thoughts about cosmetic surgery.
"It is pressure. When you see everybody around you doing it, you have those moments when you think, 'To stay alive in this business, do I need to do the same thing?' I won't lie and tell you that those things don't cross my mind, because somebody is always suggesting it to me," she told Bobbi Brown in an interview.
She even likened cosmetic surgery to "crack" that people are often trying to push on you.
Thankfully, Berry has shunned people's suggestions of her going under the knife, and instead embraced her beauty for what it truly is.
Berry said that beauty is not so much as a person's physical self, but rather a person's entire being. She urged people to accept that aging is natural and it happens to everybody.
She mentioned Lena Horn and Jane Fonda as women who aged gracefully and beautifully because they didn't do anything to reverse aging, but instead embraced it. And as the actress ages, she wants to be just like them.
"I just want to always look like myself, even if that's an older version of myself. I think when you do too much of that cosmetic stuff, you become somebody else in a way," she said.
Berry added that people inevitably want to look younger and look the same way they did 10 years ago, but the sooner they accept that a decade has passed and their looks are now different, the easier it will be to move on.
She then shared days when she would wake up feeling dissatisfied with her looks, but Berry said she tries to be proactive about her concerns.
"What I try to do is to take it all in stride - and look in my cupboard for products," she said.
If she's concerned about dark circles under her eyes, she will look for products that address it. If her skin is feeling dry, she will grab a moisturizer. Berry said that she a lot of beauty products that target her concerns so she does not feel the need to change her looks in any way.
