14 DAY TRIAL // Diane Keaton has made it to 66 without having plastic surgery, but she's a believer in the saying “never say never,” she reveals in a new interview. Aging can be difficult, especially if you work in showbiz, which is why she doesn't rule out the possibility of getting work done.
The star, featured in the latest issue of AAARP Magazine, opens up about battling bulimia in her younger years, pressure in the industry to always look perfect and, of course, whether she feels the need to have work done.
She says she hasn't gone under the knife yet, but she would never get on a soapbox to say she never will – or to judge those who do.
“I haven’t had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there,” Diane explains.
Jokingly, she remembers other instances in which she said “never,” and she ended up regretting doing so.
“I said I would never have intercourse before I was married, and I did. I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. I’ve done all kinds of things I said I wouldn’t do and, of course, now I’m glad. Thrilled,” she explains.
With her experience, she understands better than many others the need to strive to attain perfection. Plastic surgery is one means to do that.
However, she thinks aging should be celebrated and not shunned and made redundant through countless, sometimes disfiguring interventions.
She certainly does that.
“Everything’s throwing me punches from left and right, but it’s certainly been an amazing adventure. It’s all unbelievable. Every little bit of it,” Diane gushes.
“I look back on experiences like that and think, ‘Did I really do that?’ It’s a big collage. A piece here, a piece there. That’s my life. The best part is that I’m still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more,” she explains.
As noted above, in the same interview, she also talks about battling an eating disorder, bulimia. She says she believed people close to her would be more impressed by her plight but, when they weren't, she realized how easy it was to hide such a big and harmful secret from the world.