In this film, Jennifer Connelly was really super hot, then she went and got breast reduction surgery. In "A Beautiful Mind", she looks totally different and not nearly as attractive.
Note to all women reading this: Please do NOT get breast reduction surgery. Real women have curves.
I agree something about her looks off now that she got older. Her face is still beautiful, but because of the amount of weight she lost she looks almost sickly at times.
Personally, I thought she looked her best around Inventing the Abbots. It was right before she started to lose a lot of weight, and I think she looked just a little too young in Career Opportunities and the Hot Spot. Either way she is probably the most beautiful actress I've ever seen in a movie.
She is very gorgeous in this movie. She still is. Great actress
"I'm just a happy camper! Rockin' and a-rollin'!" - Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
As a retired LA cop who saw many beautiful women in and around the LA area, I have to agree with everyone commenting on how beautiful Jennifer Connelly is in The Rocketeer. Yet when I saw her with Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still, I, like many of you, was shocked, shocked at her weight loss and, perhaps most sadly of all, her obvious breast reduction.
But all actors make these decisions about their bodies, to hopefully enhance their box office appeal and their paychecks. Body enhancements are usually the most popular procedures offered by the very best of Beverly Hills' and UCLA's plastic surgeons. And they run the gamut from breast implants, chin implants, to calf implants, and even penis implants. But because of the American obsession with breasts, they are rarely reduced, let alone so dramatically.
Perhaps Jennifer, in a bid to be accepted by Hollywood producers and directors alike as brainy rather than being beautiful and "built", chose reduction as a way to show her obvious strength of character, just as her refusal to rely on her all too obvious physical attributes shows the same inner power.
In either case, in my opinion, Jennifer lost a good bit of star quality lustre by completing her reduction procedure. She went from gorgeous to being simply attractive. Her long term success will be determined by her attractiveness, her spark, and her box office appeal. And, of course, all these latter qualities are all intangibles.
I always suspected that she had the surgery. Christina Ricci too. It's almost comical when you think about it. Thousands of women get breast implants to make their boobs bigger and the girls who naturally have them get them reduced. It basically shows how society makes women feel about their bodies. That they have to achieve some specific measurement rather than just be natural. Same with plastic surgery.
shareCheck out The Hot Spot. That is Connelly in her glorious prime.
Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
So, the only way a woman is attractive to you is if she has large breasts? You're a real charmer. Aren't you? And if she had breast reduction surgery, it may have been for health reasons. Large breasts tend to put strain on a woman's back. But that's not even the point. The point is: She's a beautiful woman, period. And if she had breast reduction surgery, her reason for doing so is none of our business.
To those of you who are telling women with large breasts that they shouldn't get breast reduction surgery, as though we won't be attractive if we do have that surgery: You try walking around with large breasts and see how uncomfortable that can be, especially when our backs are concerned. Then try telling us that we shouldn't have breast reduction surgery. In my opinion, outer beauty isn't nearly as important as inner beauty. And right now, in my opinion, some of you are lacking in the inner beauty department.
I totally agree Livana. Connelly's decision to have breast reduction surgery, if that is indeed what she did (she may have simply lost weight), is no one else's business but her own, and like you state, she is a beautiful woman with or without larger breasts, and there is something rather unbecoming about a bunch of men feeling affronted that Connelly chose not to keep her larger breasts for their delectation.
That said, whilst it is Connelly's decision and she is 100% entitled to make it without sexist men berating her, heterosexual men do by-and-large prefer larger breasts, just as heterosexual women by-and-large prefer men who are muscular and well-built, and I don't think they should be condemned for those natural preferences. None of us know Connelly personally so a large part of her appeal as a performer on the big-screen is her visual beauty and sex-appeal. Whilst I do think there is something rather objectifying about commenting to such lascivious degrees on an actress's build, I know women do the same with some actors, and to be fair, many young actresses and actors do play up their sex-appeal in order to become film stars, and judging by the way Jennifer Connelly is styled and marketed in films like this and 'Career Opportunities' she was not oblivious to this fact (bear in mind that the character upon which 'Jenny Blake' is based in the comic-books is an even more sexualised nude model and presumably Ms Connelly would have been aware of this during the production).
So yes, men should stop berating Connelly for her decisions concerning her own body, but it's probably not completely fair to excoriate them for appreciating her more voluptuous look during an earlier stage of her career (which is not to say you were definitely doing the latter).
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Really? Man!
shareConnelly was the perfect woman in this flick. Not just talking about her chest but she was not bone thin, soft features. ....just a wow in every way
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