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Ava's fine cheekbones still gave her face a sculptural force. But two years earlier, she’d had a stroke that partially paralysed her left side and froze half her face in a rictus of sadness. It would have been a hard blow to bear for any woman, but for an actress who had been hailed as ‘the world’s most beautiful animal’ it was a tragedy.
“As if getting old wasn’t tough enough,” she said, but with no sense of self-pity at all. “You just have to make adjustments. Life doesn’t stop because you’re no longer beautiful. But I’d be lying to you if I told you that losing my looks is no big deal. It hurts, goddammit, it hurts like a sonofabitch.

 

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Chameleon ~ This is a great way to spice up the every day with more definition on the eyes and its contours, the lips and their pout, and the cheek bones. Think Jackie O, Ava Gardner, and Cate Blanchette!

 

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AVA GARDNER, who was renowned for her natural beauty, narrowly avoided undergoing plastic surgery thanks to a doctor in Britain.
The actress would have been one of the first A-list stars to have gone under the knife had she not sought out Archibald McIndoe, a pioneering plastic surgeon who achieved worldwide fame for his work on RAF pilots disfigured in the Second World War.

In The Reconstruction of Warriors, a newly published account of McIndoe’s work, Emily Mayhew describes how the actress visited McIndoe at his hospital for the RAF in East Grinstead, Sussex, after a riding accident. In 1957, Gardner had fallen from a horse in Spain and smashed her cheek on the ground. A large haematoma, or blood blister, grew on her cheekbone and she became worried that her screen career would be ruined. MGM, her studio, sent her to Los Angeles to see its plastic surgeon, who believed she should have surgery.

Gardner, concerned that she would be scarred, went to McIndoe for a second opinion because of his repute for saving the faces of burned pilots.

“I needed Archie McIndoe,” she said. “I knew that in comparison to what was going on with those badly burned pilots, my little injury was of almost no consequence. But Archie was a man of enormous compassion and understanding.”

McIndoe said that with patience the swelling would subside of its own accord, which it did. The actress remained self-conscious, however, until McIndoe persuaded her to take part in the hospital’s annual fête, to which he invited press photographers.

McIndoe told Gardner: “I turned the press on you deliberately. I rang every newpaper editor in London and said, ‘You can come down to my fair and photograph Ava Gardner from as close as you wish from any angle. And you can see for yourself if any plastic surgery has been done, if any knife has ever touched that magnificent face’.”

 

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Famed for her green eyes, reddish-brown hair, remarkably photogenic features and understated acting style, Ava became equally known for the men she attracted.

 

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