At 20, Nathalie Baye almost gave in to the call of cosmetic surgery. An anecdote that she told with great philosophy during an interview.
Nathalie Baye was a recognizable face among thousands in the landscape of French cinema. Laughing eyes and a smile of great sweetness that the world will remember forever. During interviews, the actress never hesitated to talk about her relationship with beauty and the passing of time, always with a lot of philosophy. “I’ll tell you one thing (you don’t have to believe me): I don’t think about it. Two or three years ago, I asked myself: “But how old am I again?” I had to redo the calculation“, she said during an interview with the media Marie Claire. But, when she was younger, the star almost went through cosmetic surgery to better accept herself. A story she remembered during this same interview.
When she was 20, Nathalie Baye had a love affair with a man whose family member was a plastic surgeon. At the time, she didn’t like her nose and so went to the professional “on the sly”, as she said. “Fortunately, he told me: “I will never touch your nose. If anyone wants to do that, you will tell him that he is dishonest. Your nose will be the character of your face.” He gave me back my confidence“, she continued. A visionary and honest doctor, who was able to guess that a great career awaited Nathalie Baye. Subsequently, the actress made this face her most beautiful working tool, crossing the decades with natural elegance.
Although she had given up on transforming her nose at the dawn of her career, she did not have a radical judgment regarding the artifices of modern medicine. For her, everything was a question of moderation and discretion. Asked about the possibility of succumbing again to the call of the scalpel with age, she confided with the frankness that characterized her: “It is inevitably a temptation and, at the same time, it is an anguish. There are little things we can do, which are very good, but it must not be seen.”
A nuanced philosophy, like this actress who ultimately proved that the most beautiful anti-aging treatment still remains self-acceptance.
