14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, word got out that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had decided to relocate to Venice, Italy with the family for as long as she needed to work on an upcoming film, which would amount to about three months, it was being said. Photos of the couple out and about immediately surfaced in the media, including one (attached) where something was weird about Jolie’s face, to say the least.
As per Us Magazine and a team of experts (meaning plastic surgeons and photographers who have never worked with the star), the protrusion she has on her face, where her jaw ends and her neck begins, is a tell-tale sign that she’s had some sort of work done. Experts can’t agree on what that might have been with precision, but the variants include Botox or some form of filler, or a minimally invasive surgical procedure. The option that she might be too thin, therefore muscles are more visible, is also being considered, the publication reveals.
Dr. Gabriel Chiu believes, “It’s unlikely that the banding can occur from strong facial muscles alone.” To this, Dr. Elie Levine adds that her face looks like she’s “received Botox to her face and likely her neck, [as she shows] no wrinkles along the sides of her eyes (the crow’s feet) despite that very large smile... and her forehead is smooth,” the publication informs. Botox, as it must be common knowledge by now, paralyzes the muscles, preventing the wrinkles from appearing, but, in doing so, it might put more strain on other muscles, which, this way, become more obvious.
A mini facelift could also be behind the strange facial protrusion. “Dr. Chiu believes Jolie may have had a ‘minimally invasive procedure’ to lift and suspend ‘the tissues in her neck, jaw line and lower face.’ Dr. Brian Glatt concurs. ‘Angelina appears to have had a procedure done to tighten her lower face, neck, and jaw line such as a mini or lower facelift,’ he says. If she had a mini-facelift, Dr. Andrew Jacano says the skin was not lifted far enough back. ‘Think of it like making your bed,’ he says. ‘If you don’t pull the sheets tight enough, they’ll appear wrinkled and bunched at the corners.’” Us goes on to add.
As noted above, it could very well be that Angelina has lost some weight, which would make some of her muscles more visible, experts add. Another possibility – though ruled out from the start by the magazine – is that the photo was altered before being released. Or, an even more plausible possibility: that it was simply taken from a bad angle and in bad lighting.