Shannen Doherty is the latest star to say no thank you to Botox

Shannen Doherty, the actor who gave us Beverly Hills, 90210’s unforgettable Brenda Walsh, wants to see the lines, creases, and imperfections that make the human face look unique, lived-in, and beautiful on both big and small screens unaltered and unfiltered. Faces, says Doherty, that look more like hers (or ours) instead of airbrushed and over-edited glamour. On Sunday, she posted a natural, make-up and filter-free selfie on Instagram, saying that it’s well past the time to start casting actors who look like they've “lived.”

"Watching movies tonight and noticed there were few female characters I could relate to,” wrote Doherty. “You know, women without fillers, without Botox, without a facelift. Women who embraced their face and all the experience it showed. I have lived. I love that I've lived and that my face reflects my life. I survived a lot yes cancer but more than that,” she explained. “I embrace me now. Finally. Done with the perception magazines and Hollywood try to make us into. I want to see women like me. Women like us."

Backing up her statement, Doherty shared a selfie that showed her bare face, unfiltered and up close.

The Charmed star is the second big name in the last week to demand that actors — especially women — be given roles that allow them to show themselves in a more naturalistic light. To oversimplify it a little, Doherty demanded that they have the opportunity to play “real” women (which, of course, they already are) with visible imperfections and flaws on their faces and bodies.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Kate Winslet may have kicked off this trend by revealing that she demanded that her Mare of Easttown director leave in a stomach roll visible in a sex scene. “I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters,” she told the paper. “She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we’re starved of that a bit.”

Olivia Wilde has also spoken out against fillers, saying “I'm not into plastic surgery, which I would categorize as a beauty trend. I think a lot of the fillers freak me out, and Botox makes everyone look like a wax candle, kind of like Madame Tussaud-esque weird—I can't get down with it. I mean, I don't want to be judgmental, but at the moment, that's a beauty trend I loathe." (Did someone say unfiltered?)

For Doherty, it seems like her battle with stage four breast cancer has, in part, informed her feelings about botox and plastic surgery. "I'm trying to figure out how to accept who I am now," she said in an interview with People back in 2019. "I'm never going to be the size I used to be. Some of my meds that I'm on keep zapping the collagen out of me, so I'm never going to have a wrinkle-free face. I'm critical of myself. But there are some things you can't fight."

I'm trying to be kinder to myself," she added. "And I try to live each day as an amazing, precious gift that I've been given."

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