The White Lotus season 3 might be over, but fans are far from getting over the show. Aimee Lou Wood, who played Chelsea this season, is getting a lot of praise for her portrayal of the girlie in love with an emotionally unavailable man. But besides her acting, she’s getting a lot of attention for another thing – not getting any cosmetic procedure done on the face. The White Lotus star recently appeared on the Run-Through with Vogue podcast where she not only addressed the topic, but also expressed her strong opinion against it.
“I saw these women yesterday, it was these women who do Botox. We were talking about how it’s obvious I haven’t had it,” she said. The reason? She said it was “obvious” because her face is so “expressive.”
“I’m, like, very anti-Botox,” the British actress chimed in soon after.
“People can do whatever they want but for myself because you know a lot of my career relies on these facial expressions. So I can’t start freezing my face, it needs to move,” she added.
“Sometimes it moves too much,” she jokingly added.
“A lot of people, they do that very still acting and everything’s kind of mumbled and they look really, like, hot and cool,” she said. But when it comes to still acting, she thinks she won’t be able to do it. “Even when I think I’m doing it, I’m not doing it,” she remarked.
Coming to her teeth, she addressed how her large sticking-out teeth added more depth to her character and how she never planned on getting them ‘fixed’.
In a separate interview where she spoke about her teeth, she said, “I can’t believe the impact my teeth are having. Americans can’t get over them. Even the way White Lotus fans are talking about me and my teeth – that I don’t have veneers or Botox – it feels a bit rebellious.”
But she feels she has done enough talking about her teeth. “Can I talk about my character? Why am I talking about my gnashers?” she continued. “It’s like now I’m just a pair of front teeth.”
“It does feel a bit weird that the thing I got bullied for is now the thing that everyone’s, like, ‘Woo!’” she said of her teeth. “It’s still the thing that’s defining me.”
Besides The White Lotus, Aimee also appeared in the Netflix show Sex Education.