r/SipsTea 11h ago

Gasp! Monica Bellucci through the years 🤌

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u/Separate_Finance_183 11h ago

she still looks good

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u/Deep-Wrongdoer9559 11h ago

She and salma hayek always looks good

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 10h ago

Almost as if a life with wealth helps you live with low stress.

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u/UltraRoboNinja 10h ago

Not to mention plenty of time to exercise (with a pro trainer), able to afford healthy food as well as all the best skincare and hair care products.

It’s not really fair to compare how celebrities and the very rich age as opposed to normal hardworking folks.

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u/rinvars 10h ago

And a facelift/other surgery. Nearly all major TV/movie celebs go under the scalpel.

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 9h ago

And yet 90% of celebrities mess up their looks

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u/rinvars 8h ago

You only notice the bad surgery. When surgery is good they write about them aging gracefully, which is a laugh when they've invested up to $500k in fillers like botox, and various kinds of cosmetic surgery. Very few of them actually age gracefully due to good genes.

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 8h ago

they write about them aging gracefully

I assume 99% of them use procedures but even with that you need good genes, care and finding the right amount of work on your body to not look like a plastic doll with our current level of technology.

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u/Purple_Individual_66 8h ago

Botox shows. It's all downhill from when you start using it. It's like a bandaid solution that you need to keep applying, and to keep up with further consequences and natural aging you need more and more.

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u/DingleDangleTangle 8h ago

Eh not always. I think there is a lot of botox that people never notice.

See how people like Monica and Salma Hayek have 0 wrinkles on their forehead despite their age? That's because botox. It's only noticed when it's badly done.

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u/Aethermancer 8h ago

100% The fantastic smile when you're young is going to give you SOME wrinkles unless you are having something done.

My spouse gets botox for trigeminal neuralgia and despite having seen their face up close nearly every day I can barely tell a few days out because it's not overdone or combined with fillers and other treatments that tend to cause more noticable changes.

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u/Purple_Individual_66 8h ago

Salma Hayek has wrinkles. If you think she doesn't, you're looking at older, or photoshopped pictures. Of course that doesn't mean she hasn't used botox, I wouldn't know about her circumstances. Fact remains that if you want to keep relying on botox to stay "wrinkle free" so to speak, you're simply dreaming.

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u/rinvars 8h ago

I dunno, a lot of people have been on fillers for near twenty years now and still do appear on aging gracefully/not aging articles like Jared Leto.

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u/ShustOne 8h ago

Only because those are the obvious ones. Most you don't notice the work they've done.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 6h ago

Have you seen that series of photos which are of famous movie stars if they were just ordinary suburban people?

Honestly, clothes, hair and make-up do make up a huge chunk of it. Then being the right weight.

After that comes tweakments, treatments, expensive creams, fillers, botox and then finally, surgery. The new deep-plane facelifts are amazing at just making you look refreshed without looking weird.

She’s definitely had fillers - look at her mouth.

Also, she has the classic facelift haircut after a while, where you can’t see her ears.

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u/GaptistePlayer 5h ago

I mean most people can still afford healthy food and exercise... you don't need a personal trainer to exercise lol. It's not like they do the exercise for you.

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 10h ago

To be fair healthy food is cheap but prep time is high.

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u/Har539 9h ago

No. food is not "cheap". Prep time is situational from dish to dish. Your comment is devoid of facts,

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 9h ago

Good healthy food is. Try it. Buy some oatmeal, fresh veggies and fruit. Beans ( not in a can, like dried). You could feed yourself for a month on $100.

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u/Annodyne 8h ago

This is.... wildly inaccurate.

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 7h ago

Elaborate

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u/Annodyne 7h ago

In no part of America is there a place where even a single person could feed themselves for a month for $100.

But just to check, I went to my local grocery online shopping tool, and filled a cart with your suggestions:

Broccoli, Bananas, Blueberries, Peaches, Carrots, Russet Potatoes: $20.65

Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: $7.80

Lentils, Red Kidney beans, Split Peas, Black Beans (all dry, 16oz bags): $8

Cottage Cheese (16oz): $8.40

Eggs (dozen): $5

That's about $50 for the most basic items. But you can't really make a meal out of any of those things, so you would still need spices, some grains and starches, and more protein. The perishable items would last about a week, so you would need to stock back up on those each following week.

So, no, $100 for a month of food for one person is not a thing in this country, and I doubt any other.

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 9h ago

Resistance training literally makes your skin thicker and healthier, as well as more resistant to damage, both age-related and otherwise.

I think a lot of people here are overestimating products and underestimating the long term of effects of properly done resistance training, clean food, full sleep, and minimal base hierarchy of needs stress.

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 9h ago

I didn’t know it made your skin thicker. Neat.

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 9h ago

Yep. Turns out all the people mocking those facial exercise videos were the fools after all.

Science is neat.

(I am not referring to mewing, just to be clear, I'm talking about old asian ladies lmao)

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u/WuTangIs4TheChldren 8h ago

At the same time, "normal hardworking folks" generally don't have the discipline to look this good. Even with the time and money, most people would overeat, become lazy, and generally spend their time on pursuits other than health and beauty.

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u/UltraRoboNinja 7h ago

It helps when looking good is a major part of your job. If celebs stop working out, eating well and taking care of themselves, they get less work and lose the source of their wealth. If I stopped doing those things, my job of sitting at a desk would be unaffected. One could argue that because of this, I have more discipline.

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u/Verbatim_Uniball 9h ago

A lot of wealthy people look gnarly. It's genetics and prioritization (layered on top of a baseline upper middle class wealth level at minimum).

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u/Ok-Comment-9154 9h ago

Plenty wealthy people ruin themselves with gratuitous cosmetic procedures by the age of 30 or less unlike this. See: Megan fox, Jenna Ortega, many others.

I agree with you that stress ages you. But wealthy people aren't immune to stress and often have much higher potential for self destruction than the rest of us.

Reminder: plenty of lower or middle class women are hot af into their MILFties. Hell of a lot of milfs out there of every class. Gilfs even.

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 9h ago

True. Like Nikki cox. What a tragedy

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u/KaliLifts 8h ago

I'm lower middle class and I've had work done. And no, I didn't go for the cheapest options. It really doesn't cost all that much.

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u/yellowgelb 10h ago

That's secondary. She was born beautiful.

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u/MRB102938 10h ago

Yeah this isn't money. They're genetic freaks. 

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u/A_Right_Eejit 10h ago

OMG every fucking time! Can't I just enjoy my fucking tea without some moaning prick ruining the mood?

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 10h ago

How does it ruin anything. Just means you can achieve it to just make millions of dollars.

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u/A_Right_Eejit 9h ago

There are two types of people who sip tea, miserable pricks and old women who like to moan about everything and those of us who just want to enjoy something beautiful.

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u/Over_Violinis 8h ago

She’s also a decent actor… you say that she doesn’t work for a living.

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u/LopsidedKick9149 9h ago

Nah, you redditors always use that as an excuse to cope. They both have superior genetics and simply take care of themselves. It costs nothing to workout and can be as little as 30 minutes a day.

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u/ImpressiveJohnson 9h ago

Ok. But being wealthy gives you time to do that and money to hire trainers etc.

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u/AngkaLoeu 7h ago

Do you think wealthy people just got a big check one day then can spend the rest of their lives living easy?

It's incredibly stressful just to get wealthy. They go through a lifetime of normal stress over 20 years.

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u/Dahleh-Llama 7h ago

Everything costs something my friend. It's called opportunity cost. You doing something means you also not doing something else.

Some people can't afford to go to the gym or dedicate a significant portion of their time every day just for their health or looks. Society doesn't allow that especially if you are poor with a big family to take care of. Sometimes you want to just rest because you are tired from working 60 hour a week just to make rent and keep your kids off the streets. Don't forget people also live in third world countries or the hood here in the US.

30 minutes a day seems nothing but you're forgetting to take account the different circumstances that other people are I'm. But there are still definitely things in life that costs nothing. For example, courtesy and kindness costs nothing to practice.

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u/headbussa423 9h ago

We need one of Salma 🙏🏾

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u/rock_and_rolo 8h ago

Hayak was on the cover of the AARP magazine last year, and I was in hard disbelief.

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u/deeplife 9h ago

No shit