Kate Beckinsale Doesn't Aspire to Hollywood Beauty

Kate Beckinsale says the Hollywood ideal of beauty is unrealistic.

“I don’t think you can aspire to it, nor can I,” she tells Glamour magazine. “Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, ‘Why don’t I look like that now?’ It’s because I never have!”

Beckinsale says the unrealistic version of beauty is one thing about living is Los Angeles that she will never get used to: “This is what’s sick about living in L.A. My 8-year-old daughter (Lily) will point to a woman and say, ‘Look! That woman’s had too much Botox.’ She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from ‘Harry Potter.’ ”

She's physically changed her body for roles -- including gaining 20 lbs to play Ava Gardner in “The Aviator,” she admits that pregnancy is the most drastic change her body has gone through.

“When I was pregnant, everyone told me, ‘You’re going to be one of those women with a little football in front.’ And then this ... thing, this Scooby-Doo monster belly arrived. I gained 65 pounds. Every single part of my body was thicker — even my scalp! But that’s the advantage of being young — it went right back.”

Source: Glamour