The Changing Face of Renee Zellweger

Gone is the woman who made us believe that the normal, curvy girl could have both Hugh Grant and Colin Firth physically fighting in the street over her and in her place is a puffy cheeked, wrinkle free stranger. If you haven’t seen the new Renee yet I advise you to have a look at this page by the Metro. It’s hard not to spend hours on this page, slowly moving the slider to reveal the new face of Renee Zellweger pore by pore.

This whole saga is just evidence that the world’s all-consuming obsession with celebrity has reached a new peak of craziness. On the very same day face-gate occurred and took over the international media, scientists cured the first person ever of paralysis – an absolutely ground breaking discovery which went almost unnoticed and warrants a hundred times more public acknowledgement than some questionable plastic surgery. This just proves what a population of nosey, slightly bitchy, gossips we are. The power of social media is incredible and it’s just a shame that those who use it most don’t always populate it with the sorts of inspirational stories which deserve to be shared. It may be a bit of a shock for us to see a familiar actress looking different but the grotesque display of public criticism that followed was even more alarming.

Organisations are coming under criticism from the charity ‘Bullies Out’ for setting a poor social media example and taking part in a form of trolling. With companies such as MSN tweeting ‘Guys, something’s happened to Renee Zellweger’s face. #HalloweensComeEarly’ it’s not hard to see how they could be seen as promoting tweeting at others expense. Some may argue that celebrities, in putting themselves in the public eye, invite these kinds of comments and therefore cannot really be trolled. Trolled or not, I’m just upset that this means the end Bridget Jones films, or at least as know her…

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