Royals before and after!

[stephanyjml]

I believe Mette-Marit looks much better with shorter and a tad darker blonde

I agree with you about Mette-Marit. I like her hair a bit shorter also. I also like it when she wears it pulled back for formal events. There is just something about M-M.

[tabbitha]

Originally Posted by stephanyjml

I never noticed it before but I think you're right! Her nose definitely looks different in the close-up pic than it does now. I think Mary's nose is one of her very distinctive features; cute, pert and upturned. However, I remember thinking that when I first saw her in their engagement pics so I wonder when she had surgery (if she did, in fact, have her nose done).



I agree with you on this one. Maybe she has had some sort of procedure but I think her recent complexion is due to a different lifestyle in a different climate. Being of similar age to Mary, I know it is common for women to tan when they are younger then avoid it when they reach a certain age.

I personally Don't think Mary has had anything done to her face- i think when she lost weight her face changed. i know if I lose weight my cheek bones stand out more and it makes your nose less puffy as in Mary's case. i think she lookes fine to me.. It also depends on which angle you are standing when you have your photo taken. A professional photographer knows how to take decent photos of your nose , face and body using better angles and soft lighting etc and the Starmakers photos are POOR quality ones...

[Verde Esmeralda]

Originally Posted by tabbitha

I personally Don't think Mary has had anything done to her face- i think when she lost weight her face changed. i know if I lose weight my cheek bones stand out more and it makes your nose less puffy as in Mary's case. i think she lookes fine to me.. It also depends on which angle you are standing when you have your photo taken. A professional photographer knows how to take decent photos of your nose , face and body using better angles and soft lighting etc and the Starmakers photos are POOR quality ones...

I agree on the poor quality of those pictures you mention, but still Mary's nose look more pointy now than before. And I am not sure whether weight loss would affect someone's nose shape really ...

[stephanyjml]

I don't think a weight gain or loss would affect the shape of someone's nose. Honestly, I didn't even recognize Mary in those pictures and I would bet they were taken in the early 90's. I also think that if she did have her nose done, she had it done before she became a princess, even before she met Frederik. As I wrote before, her nose is the feature that I noticed about her because it is cute, perky and upturned. It seems it is much slimmer now. A rhinoplasty is a popular procedure that many "average" people have here in the U.S. and Canada.

[tamar]

Originally Posted by enchantednights

wow it is amazing what money can do to someones looks.

I totaly agree.

Most women have the potention to look good, and money plays a big part of it.
Because even if some one hasn't the right sense of fashoin with money you can use the best stylists and designers.
Some times I try an outfit in the store that loos great on me and flatter me, makes me look thinner and youger..... but i just can't afford it. So when you have the financial ability that changes everythig.

[Aurora810]

I like a few others, am not convinced that Mary had anything done to her nose. Not only do we not know how much airbrushing and "doctoring" goes on to "royal" photos but we also don't know if there was "doctoring" to the old pics. I mean, it seems to make sense to me that a company would release photos that show a not so polished person that is now a known public figure. Seems possible to me! However, those pics are just awfully poor quality anyone would look bad.

Anyways, I was going through some pictures on-line just for the sake of comparing and I found 2 pictures. I don't know about anyone else but I think the pictures show her nose to look similar to the way it looks in the older pictures. I don't really see much of a difference at least! Maybe it looks so different in other "royal" pictures because of lighting and capturing her in the right angle. Maybe some of it is also because we are all so use to seeing Mary like she is right now. In the below pictures the angles are not as favorable as many other pictures plus 1 picture is shadowy because of Mary's arm being up in the air waving. Both are still good pictures of her. I don't know but to me it demonstrates that there is really no difference in her nose from before to now.

ANP Beeldbank
ANP Beeldbank

[Letizia_guapa]

The changes are sometimes very logical. People change after 10 or 20 years. People get wrinkels when they get older. The fashion changes, what we liked in the 80s looks stupid now. If someone realy changed for me it would be like Rania who had plastic surgery. Then you have an extreme change from one day to another.

[iloveroyals]

I wonder if Princess Caroline has had a face lift or another kind of cosmetic surgery done to her face. The reason I say this, is I was looking at the thread on her jewels, where some members conducted a fascinating investigation of when she wore her favorite jewels, and I kept getting confused about the latest pictures (spring 07) thinking they were earlier pictures because she looked younger than in the older pictures, wearing the same jewels. It may be that many of the recent pictures had been airbrushed when older ones had not been. In some recent pictures (not about jewelry), she looks like the "old" Princess Caroline, no pun intended. Anybody has an opinion ? What is striking too is that her features are so much sweeter, softer, more gentle with the, let's say, non-airbrushed pictures. She had begun to acquire a hard air about her (at least in some pictures) and in recent ones, she looks a lot gentler. Maybe just her mood ? A splendid summer ?