In an industry where youth and beauty are revered, female celebrities are inevitably asked their views on plastic surgery and the question (which notably few men get asked) of whether they would consider it. In most cases, that well-worn phrase of 'everybody does it, just nobody talks about it' is rather apt where Hollywood's concerned. Or else if they are going to come clean - with both Cindy Crawford and Cameron Diaz admitting to having had Botox - very few celebrities are likely to call themselves as being in favour of it. But whilst the majority remain coy about whether they have or haven't, many are happy to offer their opinions on the subject.

There is the 'die-hard against it' camp, whose most prominent members are Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz and Emma Thompson who formed The British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League in 2011 with Winslet stating 'such practices go against my morals.'

Then there are those who take the opposite stance, with outlandish comedienne Joan Rivers famously saying 'If you can fix it, fix it! If it makes you happier. I love to look in the mirror and say, 'For 77, you look good.'  Tyra Banks is another celebrity to offer a more controversial view: 'I hate when models say ‘Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery!'

And lastly there are those who, rather than arguing for or against plastic surgery, prefer to sit on the fence. Beyoncé. Angelina Jolie and Julianne Moore have all said they wouldn't condemn others' decisions on the matter. Or in the case of Gwyneth Paltrow: 'Maybe one day I will, although I don't like the idea of it.' We look at how other famous women from Charlotte Rampling to Sharon Stone have chosen to respond to the plastic surgery question.

1. Kate Winslet: 'It goes against my morals.'

In a 2011 interview for The Telegraph, Winslet said:

'It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up, and what I consider to be natural beauty. I will never give in.'

While back in 2006 she was quoted as saying:

'I’d like to grow old with my face moving.'

2. Tyra Banks: 'I hate when models say that plastic surgery is wrong.'

Speaking to Yahoo Singapore in 2012 Tyra Banks said:

“I hate when models say ‘Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing.' What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that’s making people everywhere feel insecure and you’re going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?'

3. Charlotte Rampling: 'You have to be very careful with plastic surgery.'

In a 2012 interview, The Radio Times asked Charlotte Rampling her opinion on plastic surgery. She had this to say:

'I think you have to be very careful with plastic surgery because once you start doing it your face starts to change. People lose their face; they lose their personality in a way. Inside they’re the same, but they look at themselves and go, ‘It’s not me!’ And it’s irreversible. And then you see their faces and they look round and scarred.'

4. Cindy Crawford: 'Plastic surgery is really scary.'

In a 2010 interview with Ladies Home Journal, Cindy Crawford noted:

'I've tried Botox, but it scares me. Plastic surgery is really scary, but as long as you don't use [it] to change your face, I think its okay.'

5. Rosamund Pike: 'No way!'

Speaking to Lynn Barber for The Guardian in 2009, Pike was adamantly against any notion of cosmetic surgery. 

“No way [to cosmetic surgery]. Not even Botox. You look at someone like Judi Dench and you just think she’s the most beautiful woman. Because if you’re a beautiful person, then somehow all the lines fall into the right place.'

6. Angelina Jolie: 'If it makes someone happy, then it's up to them.'

Despite undergoing a highly-publicised preventative mastectomy last year, Jolie is reluctant to consider surgery for anything other than health reasons. In a 2010 interview with You Magazine, she had this to say:

'I haven't had anything done and I don't think I will. But if it makes somebody happy then that's up to them. I'm not in somebody else's skin to know what makes them feel better about themselves. But I don't plan to do it myself.'

7. Cate Blanchett: 'Who knows?'

In a 2009 interview with Vanity Fair  Blanchett famously remarked that her marriage would end if she went under the knife:

'I haven't had anything done, but who knows? [My husband] Andrew said he'd divorce me if I did anything. When you've had children, your body changes; there's history to it... I think it's important not to eradicate it.'

8. Joan Rivers: 'Babies respond to pretty faces.' 

Back in 2009, Joan Rivers responded to an Entertainment Weekly reporter on the question of cosmetic surgery in her typically blunt manner:

'I just hosted the Miss USA Pageant and let me tell you, beautiful gets you everywhere. The New York Times had an article maybe six months ago: Babies respond to pretty faces. So stop telling everyone it’s okay not to be pretty! If you can fix it, fix it! If it makes you happier. I love to look in the mirror and say, 'For 77, you look good.' That’s all. I don’t care what anyone says. Not bad for 77. Ain’t nothing wrong with that as long as you’re happy.'

9. Khloe Kardashian: 'I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person.'

Although her mother and two older sisters have been frank about their cosmetic procedures (having filmed several of them for their reality show), Khloe Kardashian had this to say in a 2012 interview with E! News: 

'I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever. But I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.'

10. Sharon Stone: 'Are they really prettier?'

 

Speaking to Shape Magazine this year, Stone commented:

'We’ve got 400,000 girls with beachy blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?'

11. Jerry Hall: 'It never looks good.'

In 2007, Jerry Hall was quoted as saying:

'Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.'

12. Beyoncé: ' I don't judge anybody.'

Although her harrowing video for Pretty Hurts would strongly suggest that Beyoncé was against plastic surgery, she was more diplomatic when asked her opinion on it by the Daily Mirror in 2009:

‘I’m young. I don’t think plastic surgery is OK right now, but when I’m 57, who knows what I’m going to say. I don’t judge anybody, though, if it’s something that makes them feel better, then fine.’

13. Gwyneth Paltrow: 'Maybe one day I will, although I don't like the idea of it.'

 

Paltrow speaking to YOU Magazine in 2013 commented:

'Before, I didn't care about it. And I still refuse to use silicone, Botox, or any other of those gimmicks out of pure vanity. But a breast correction after breast feeding—why not?' I don't mind a few wrinkles and freckles. I had this laser treatment recently, Thermage, and it took a couple of years off my face, but I haven't had any plastic surgery yet. Maybe one day I will, although I don't like the idea of it. I prefer the thought of aging in the way French actresses do - have the odd cigarette and glass of wine and just enjoy life.' 

14. Cameron Diaz: 'It changed my face in such a weird way.'

One of the few celebrities to admit to having dabbled with cosmetic procedures, Diaz spoke to ET Online earlier this year about her reaction to it:

'I've tried [Botox] before, where it was like a little tiny touch of something. It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, 'No, I don't want to be like that' - I'd rather see my face aging than a face that doesn't belong to me at all.'

15. Julianne Moore: 'You could be dead at 45 ... then you don't have to worry about aging.'

In an interview with Net-A-Porter’s The Edit last year, Julianne More said that she was determined to grow old gracefully.   

'I’d like to think that I can age as naturally as possible. I don’t want to come out condemning anything anybody does, because I think that all of these things can contribute to making people feel better about themselves, and that’s great. I also want to look like myself. I mean, we’re not going to live forever. You could be dead at 45, and guess what? Then you don’t have to worry about aging.'

16. Helena Bonham-Carter: 'You can have the work done and look weirder.'

16. Bonham Carter believes that cosmetic surgery would affect her career as an actress. She told the Daily Mail in 2011:

'You have two choices. You can have the work done and look weirder. Or have nothing done and look older" Carter claimed, adding: "I think the only way I'll continue to get work is if I don't get anything done.'

17. Julia Roberts: 'I want my kids to know ... when I'm happy.'

In an interview with ELLE in 2010, Julia Roberts had this to say about plastic surgery.

“I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded. Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.'

18. Emma Thompson: 'Everybody needs to look 30 at 60.'

As a co-founder of a Hollywood collective taking a stance against cosmetic surgery (alongside Kate Winslet and Rachel Weisz), Thompson pulled no punches when being interviewed by The Telegraph in 2011:

'I'm not fiddling about with myself. We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.'

19. Kate Moss: '[I was] going to get a tit job. Can you imagine?'

Moss spoke to Allure Magazine last year about how she wanted to get plastic surgery during her early days as a model, despite then going on to have a stellar career while keeping her so-called 'flaws'.

'I didn’t like my teeth. I didn’t like my flat chest, either. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to get a tit job.’ Can you imagine?'

20. Kate Beckinsale: 'The people I see here [in Los Angeles have] wind-tunnel face.'

Beckinsale spoke to Glamour in 2012 about how her mother is an inspiration for her not to go down the cosmetic surgery route:

'My mother was always very, very beautiful – she still is, in her sixties. I’m sure she feels: 'Wouldn’t it be nice if my neck did this?' but not to the degree of cutting parts of herself off and dragging them behind her ears. I feel very similar. I much prefer how my mother looks to the people I see here [in Los Angeles] with wind-tunnel face.'