14 DAY TRIAL // For a very long time, Kylie Minogue was the poster child for Botox, even if she never went all out there to admit that she was using it. Only after she stopped getting the jabs did she come clean and said that, yes, there have been times in the past when she used whatever she could to look her best. Not so anymore, she says in a brand new interview with Times Online: at 42 and looking better than ever, Kylie is all natural.
Of course, this is not the first time in the past couple of weeks that the singer says that she’s banished Botox completely from her life, though it’s a first in terms of her voicing how puzzled she is that people still pay attention to this topic. She shouldn’t be blamed for doing whatever she could to look good – and thus secure her place in the spotlight – especially as she was fresh off battling cancer and needed to do her utmost to stay on top, the publication says.
“It gave me a bad rap. Isn’t that the saying? It fascinates me that I’m asked so much about it, when advertising for face products is forced down our throats. There are some things you can do. Most people have done them. You can have microdermabrasions and micropeels. If these things are going to give you better skin, why not? My face has gone through a lot of changes. If you look back to before I was ill, there was nothing of me. I didn’t realize it at the time, but in a way I looked much older than I do now. All of me is just fleshier now, but my face changed. It filled out, it puffed up with the drugs. It’s not puffed now, but then it was because of the chemotherapy and steroids. Nobody saw me much – I was under the radar – but there are pictures of me. I could see my cheeks via my peripheral vision. I’d never noticed my cheeks before, but I could look down and I was like, ‘Those are my cheeks!’” Kylie says of how her face has changed in time.
As the singer sees it, she’s still getting a lot of attention for her now-defunct love for Botox because of her age. In all fairness, as Times also puts it, for a woman who’s 42, Kylie looks absolutely stunning, being able to compete against women even half her age. “Now it gets written about because I’m in that age group. ‘She’s in her forties and she’s still got it.’ I’m in the age range where you’re spoken about like that, and I’m like, ‘Shut up, because at some point it won’t be’.” Kylie explains, in reference to how people like to say of her she “still got it.”
Fans know that Kylie rarely opens up like this to the media unless she has a very good reason for it: and her excuse now is among the most solid, for she’s promoting her latest album, “Aphrodite,” which she’d best describe as “euphoric.” A first single and video from it have already been released (“All the Lovers”). For more on the album and what Kylie hopes to achieve with it, please refer here for the full piece with Times Online.