You should keep what you were given.
At least that’s star Sandra Bullock‘s philosophy when it comes to having plastic surgery. At a press conference in London, where she is promoting her latest film Miss Congeniality, a film about an FBI agent who goes undercover at a beauty pageant, Bullock told Reuters that she would never have any work done on her face. “Absolutely not. I love what I have,” she said.
After hearing that several plastic surgeons use her chin as a perfect model when reconstructing clients, she joked, “Don’t you think I should get a kickback for that?”
She went on to say, “If I saw myself on the street, it would be unnerving, but whatever makes them feel good. If my chin makes them feel better, then great.” Oddly enough, Bullock doesn’t really like her chin. “It always drove me crazy because it had the cleft,” she said.
The star of Speed and Hope Floats learned a few things while working with real-life beauty contestants in the film. “How to achieve a more voluptuous figure without altering yourself surgically is what I learned,” she said. “You can make it work. You can make it bigger or smaller. If you don’t like your hips, go exercise.”
The film Miss Congeniality has received mixed reviews. Given her recent track record (which includes 28 Days and Forces of Nature), perhaps Bullock is choosing the wrong scripts. But the actress, who has been compared to Lucille Ball for her physical comedy talents, defends her choices. “Comedy always gets slammed. It is a weird thing,” she said. “You don’t make films like that to get reviewed. It’s not like we are curing cancer.”
Bullock, who commands $12 million a film, is happy to be working in her chosen profession and credits Julia Roberts, who broke the $20 million boys’ club, with opening the doors for women to do films in a high income bracket. “[It’s like] she is saying – you can make money doing films like this,” she said.
Bullock will next star in director John Hughes‘ comeback film The Chambermaid with Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) and the thriller Fool Proof with Ben Chaplin (Lost Souls).
