Justine Bateman recently appeared on 60 Minutes Australia with a message to those criticizing her appearance,
I just don’t give a shit. I think I look rad.
I think my face represents who I am. I like it. I feel like I would erase, not only all my authority that I have now, but also, I like feeling that I am a different person now than I was when I was 20.
I like looking in the mirror and seeing that evidence.”
In 2021, Bateman told People why she’d have any cosmetic procedures, She recalled Googling her name and reading comments that she looked old,
I thought my face looked fine.
And then because of some of the fears I had, unrelated to my face, I decided to make them right and me wrong….I became really ashamed of my face, ridiculously so.
I find it really wrong that women right now are absorbing this idea that their faces need to be fixed.
I realized my face is only going to get older. So why not take care of whatever fear I have attached to that.
You’re not going to make that fear go away by changing your face. If you go and get plastic surgery, you’re going to look different. Okay. You’ll have that, but you haven’t dealt with what the fear was.
That fear will continue.”
I think getting all this plastic surgery is just people pleasing. You don’t want people to criticize you anymore so you appease them. The more you do that, the further away you get away from your true self.
It doesn’t work for me.”
With her new book Face: One Square Foot of Skin, Justine Bateman…is trying to push back against the notion that women’s faces are ‘broken and need to be fixed’…
The book is a meditation on women’s faces, and the cultural pressure to be ‘ashamed and apologetic that their faces had aged naturally.’“
–New York Times
