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Mark J. Terrill / AP
Tom Cruise, 49, created a buzz when he presented the Oscar for best picture Sunday night by looking markedly younger than his years.
Each year, the Oscars culminate with the dramatic presentation of the award for Best Picture. But last night's big surprise seemed to be more about the man holding the envelope: Tom Cruise appears to have turned back time.
"Tom Cruise is totally Benjamin Buttoning" tweeted @Buzzfeed. "I think he's 14 now. He's going to die a baby" tweeted @BillDixonish.
Cruise, who turns 50 in July, looks at least a decade younger than he should, noted Dr. Anthony Youn, a Detroit-area board-certified plastic surgeon who runs the blog "Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery."
"I don't think he's found the Fountain of Youth, but he's done the next best thing -- found a good plastic surgeon," says Youn, a regular contributor to msnbc.com and TODAY.com. "He looks like someone who has had a plethora of the best cosmetic treatments available."
Youn, who hasn't treated Cruise, believes he's had multiple procedures done. "To look as good as he does, it's not possible to have had just one thing done."
For starters, he suspects Cruise has had Botox injections to smooth the lines between his eyebrows. He also thinks he's had a filler like Restylane injected into the deeper wrinkles of his face, particularly the nasal-labial folds that run from the nose to the corners of the mouth.
Youn believes he's also had injections of facial plumper, such as Sculptra. "This guy is very lean, like the Madonna of men," says Youn. "He has almost no fat on his body yet his face has retained softness. A 50-year-old guy with no body fat should be rugged looking, gaunt and have no fat on his face."
Scuptra is typically injected every six weeks for three or four treatments. The effect is so gradual that people often don't even spot it. "It literally is the Benjamin Button effect," Youn says.
But Youn noticed that it's not just Cruise's face that looks younger - his neck does as well. At his age, he'd expect him to have loose skin under his neck, which he doesn't, Youn says. And while he doesn't think Cruise has had a facelift, he suspects he's having regular skin-tightening treatments. One candidate is ReFirme, a light-based treatment that combines radio frequency and infrared light. Typically that's done about once a month on a regular basis.
All these treatments can cost tens of thousands of dollars, Youn says, and the effect will vanish unless they're repeated. "For a normal person on a budget it would be hard to keep up, but for him, it's not a big deal."
Youn says while Cruise looks as good as he did back when he was starring in 1992's "A Few Good Men," he wouldn't recommend he do anything in addition besides maintenance.
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This article seems like an excuse for Dr. Youn to name-drop/plug a bunch of his available treatments.
I'm suspecting its a new Scientology breakthrough, only available to the 6th ring of members of the organization.
I just can't wait for Top Gun 2 to come out.
I would do the same thing if I had his cash lol
I wonder how much he had to pay the doctors? What vanity!
I guess he couldn't afford the extra inches operation to get rid of the high heels.
He's an actor. His looks are part of what make him bankable. As long as we want our leading men to be young and fit, stuff like this will happen. Supporting roles don't pay as much.
Don't agree AG99. Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman are among the best actors there are.
Bad comparison. Neither Harrison Ford nor Morgan Freeman make $30m per movie with back end ownership. not even close. Every single person reading this article would do the SAME $hit if money were not an issue.
I really dont' care if he has 100 face treatments... yes he looks hot.. always has.. I just can't stand to see any of his movies...... period. Not that I'll hurt his income.. lol Just sayin'.
AFAIC, he could live forever - and still not act worth sour apples! Just another pretty face, and this article ? Just another BFD. . .
Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman are also "mens' men". Tom Cruise is more like a man-boy.
Rupert, the thing is, Tom Cruise goes around bad-mouthing everyone else for using medicine to actually HEAL themselves. And he's using it to make himself LOOK BETTER. I honestly don't have a problem with Hollywood using the money we basically throw at them any way they see fit. But when someone trashes others for their medical choices and acts like a complete hypocrite, well... I just won't throw my cash at them anymore. I met him years ago, before he went loco. Nice guy. But he seems to have gone off the deep end, unlike Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman.
Don't hate.
Daisy is absolutely correct. Cruise berated Brooke Shields for post partum depression therapy. What is the difference between what she did (probably necessary) to cosmetic surgery totally elective.
Who cares!!??
Well obviously you do...
Everytime someone says 'who cares' some dillwad such as yourself has to point out that he blogged about it. Did it ever dawn on you that his 'who cares' statement is meant to demean the overall article as superflous and stupid? That is what I took from it.
Dude is probably just bored at work and will read anything for even the slightest bit of entertainment but keep up the good work being the blog monitor fkface.
Did it ever dawn on you that if the person is so uninterested in the story, then they should not have clicked on the link in the first place? If Ray got any kind of entertainment out of the article, then it served its purpose.
I think you fit the bill as far as Blog Monitor goes, seeing that you responded to a comment that has nothing to do with you in the first place. Kind of pathetic that people like you patrol the comments section. If Ray felt the need to defend his comment I would welcome it, but instead Super Dork swoops in from his mother's basement to save the day. Another Job Well Done!!! I'm sure you were an excellent Hall Monitor in High School as well.
Who cares that Ray doesn't care? I thought I didn't. Now, I'm not so sure.
I bet his significantly younger wife cares.
David-2394626, you are suspended for a week for violating rule # 1 of the Code of honor.
It never said if he admits he had work done :)
Looks like good work to me!!!
Me, too. If it would make me look that good, I'd let 'em work on me in a heartbeat. 'Course, you have to have something pretty good to start with...darn it.
Watch out, Dr. Youn. He'll probably sue you for implying that he's had plastic surgery.
Tom who? Who cares?
Have you been living under a rock the past twenty years?
Once again, he is making a statement that implies that this dude (bathroom cruise) is washed up, old news, yesterday's toiletpaper. Have you been living under a rock, possibly a rock that impedes the understanding of sarcasm? So sick of you fkn people, and yet, like a fkn masocists I come back.
I hate being bored at work. More work please.
Does this explain why he has mainly made "coming of age" into his 40's: Character starts off as a jerk, something dramatic happens, he learns his lesson/becomes a nice guy?
I can't believe that he got an oscar nomination for Jerry Maquire: same plot as above.
Super Dork David saves the day again!!
Cruise has been a very handsome, sporty guy since "Risky Business". I love his movies and could care less whom he worships [except satan maybe]/ He's an actor, not a politician running for office. His personal life is his own.
When it comes to his action roles, no one is better than bringing the action and the stunts that he does himself. Botox can't build killer abs nor the strength and endurance that I've seen from him.
It used to be that people said eternally young looking people "Had good bones". I belive that to be true. I've seen many pics of Tom and wife jogging and him working out and I'm sure their diets are the very best with top-rated chefs.
His face is his income. It isn't vanity, it is business. If you were a car salesman and lost your voice, you'd be up the creek.
If you worked in a high-level office, you'd buy expensive clothes. It's an investment. I'm 58 and have "Good Bones" but they are buried under too many years of no exercise and bad diet. I don't envy him, I say, "Good, we'll have 10 more years of really good movies that are believable."
There's a few in Hollywood, Depp, Pitt, Cruise who make turning 50 look like a piece of cake. I love them all. I just wish Depp and Pitt would clean up and lose the facial hair and follow Cruise's example.
Plastic surgery is "Risky Business" and available for only "A Few Good Men" with the BIG BUCK$ mind you, however...he looks a little too PUFFY for my taste, well not like Sean Combs Puffy but Puff The Magic Dragon kinda Puffy or Puffer Fish Puffy...you know what I mean?!
IDC what he has found but I sure wish I could find him in a dark room some time!! Wowzers he looks amazingly hot and when he walked out last night my jaw dropped! I am 49 years old and have never ever seen anyone my age look like that anywhere........where are they all????
tom cruise was almost unrecognizable when he walked out at the oscars; he definitely had work done - not that there's anything wrong with that; he'd just better not issue a statement denying it ...
I thought he looked great last night. I agree with a previous post . . . if he can afford it and it works that well, why not?
Who cares it is his body.
Agreeing with the ones who have said something along the lines of this is all conjecture and 'could haves". I don't see one statement in there that says he DID have anything done. He looks great, if he wants to spend his cash on that, more power to him. Just a thought. :-)
So no to anti-depressants but yes to plastic surgery???
Bingo, Jamie B! Excellent point!
If you look that good, you don't need an antidepressant. I wonder what Scientology's take is on Viagra?
Spotted his rebuilt face right off the bat!
Too bad they didn't get the body stretcher out. He had those Elton John "Pinball Wizard" shoes to get him up to 5-7 with spiked hair. This guy just makes most men cringe. What a fraud.
No, he just makes you cringe because you're a moron who can't seperate an actor from their personal lives. Idiot.
How about that Mryl Streep, wooaaa! She's the reason dogs grow. Most over-rated person on the face of the earth. The female equivalent of knee-hugger Tom Cruise.
Listen, I'm not gay and am currently 38...I've sat through all this guy's movies (some unfortunately), this guy looked great last night. If I had the money, I'd do whatever he's been doing. He's crazy as a bat, but on this, he got it right. Good for him, and I guess, Katie too.
his personal life his choice
And so what's the big deal. He looks great. Just like almost every ACTRESS there who has had any work done on her face. Sandra Bullock will be 48 and doesn't have a wrinkle line anywhere on her face. Geez.
He does look much younger but how he looks and how he gets that way is his business. He's still as old as he is and his internal organs age like anyone else. I have nothing against looking as good as you can look.... but sadly,, it won't extend a life. It's his business, though. Seems nervy that a doctor who has never treated him tried to tell what all he'd had done. Free advertisement?
He looks GREAT! And is a really nice person in real life!
He looks GREAT and is a really sincerely nice person in real life!
Tom wasn't a bad looking guy before the procedure and he's still working in Hollywood. Not sure what this face enhancement will gain him other than looking closer in age to his wife. If his goal is to look younger, he certainly looks younger. I agree with Jamie B, what does his "religion" say about his change! Is it allowed?
Eh. His forehead is shiny, too. If he wants to stay young, go for it. I'd rather men aged like Paul Newman or his buddy Robert Redford, but that's just me.
The shine is probably due to antibiotic ointments or vaseline for the scarring; people who get tattoos and permanent makeup tattooed also have to wear it for a few days to prevent infection and noticeable scarring.
Oh yes. Robert Redford. Yes. I'm 32 and Robert Redford is hot. Hope my husband ages just like him!!!