Is it true that Julia Roberts published a message to women with a call to abandon cosmetics?

Not the first year on the network has been going on an emotional appeal that the Hollywood star allegedly addressed all women. We checked whether the actress really shared such a message.

The text widely dispersed on the Internet usually begins something like this: “The world famous Hollywood actress Julia Roberts published a sensational message. In it, she does not ask, begs all women to take an active position and stop paying attention only to external beauty, to the detriment of themselves and their nature. ”

In the message itself, the artist allegedly states that “perfection is a disease of many nations, we cover our faces with tons of makeup, regularly collar Botox and Mimit ourselves in hunger in order to achieve the perfect size”, while we should take care of his soul first of all. To stop all this, Julia Roberts, according to her, takes the first step - he forever refuses makeup, wanting to see his wrinkles. It is also argued that she calls on others to "live and follow our nature." “The appearance is the last thing to value in a person. Everything that matters is the soul, ”the actress supposedly concludes.

This text has been walking on websites in one or another retelling for several years ("Ren-TV","Picabu" SPLETNIK.ru, The Jizn, "Sea of ​​diva","Gold","Mamul.am" Postimees), as well as social networks. Some publics on VKontakte have published this appeal several times in recent years (Scientific and popular psychology- 406,000, 108 000 And 103,000 views, "morality" - 269,000 And 136 000, “Window to the amazing world” - 267 000 And 141 000), and one was enough for someone ("Diary of a happy woman"- 373,000). Distributed the text in Telegram (for example, channels "5 smart thoughts" - 66,000 views and"Psychology" - 25,000 views), and on Facebook (pages"The world is full of miracles" - more than 1000 reposts," "Psychology" - 637," "Cannon" - 587 and"Inspiration" - 521).

It is usually argued that Julia Roberts published her message on social networks. The actress avoided her presence on any platforms for many years. In 2013, she said: “It looks like sweet cotton wool: it looks so attractive, and you just cannot resist, so as not to get there, and then in a moment you just have sticky fingers.” Soon a star She saidthat it "repels the lack of human connection in all this." However, in June 2018, Roberts I could not stand it and started a page in Instagram (Userneum @juliaroberts), which still remains the only confirmed account of the actress in social networks.

Here are just bad luck: for example, Ren-TV and some other Russian-speaking sites handed over a sensational message long before the appearance of this account, back in November 2016. And if we look into English sources, we will see that Western resources (Yahoo! Life, Huffington Post, AOL And many others) published a similar text on behalf of the actress even before. They referred to the remote publication In a completely different Instagram account @juliarobertsoriginal, located on September 4, 2015. The account itself today too Inaccessible. To see what this post looked like, the publication in the French edition will help us Le Figaro:

So, it turns out that in the beginning of the fall of 2015 on an unpleasant (but, apparently quite popular) page @juliarobertsoriginal on Instagram, a photograph of Julia Roberts without makeup appeared, equipped with a text that coincides with the first half of the well -known Russian -speaking Address.

The second part of the viral text, in which the actress declares the rejection of cosmetics and expects similar actions from other women, is not in the original. It's about the following fragment: “Do you understand that artificial aesthetics rules the world, holding us in prison your illusions about appearance? Instead of living and following our nature, we are forced to confess those canons of beauty that we have imposed on us. But you know what? I'm tired of this. And I say to myself: Stop. I urge everyone to stop and remember who you are actually, what you really want. Remember who you are. No one can ever 100% comply with the criteria of beauty. The appearance is the last thing to value in a person. Everything that matters is the soul. Remember it forever. ”

The above -mentioned Western media did not write anything about this part of the message. According to our study, in Russian, this fragment of the text appeared on the network much earlier than in English, and the first to result in the “appeal to all women” published a network resource The Jizn. It is important to note the following: yes, Julia Roberts, who recently turned 55 years old, periodically allows himself Selfie without makeuphowever, she actively used and Uses Cosmetics. Her personal make -up artist over the past quarter century is the famous specialist Jenevieve Herr, who in October 2022 in detail told About the makeup of the actress for the recent ceremony in the Museum of the American Film Academy. Therefore, the second part of the message does not meet any criteria of truth.

As for the first part of the text, the presence of such a publication looks very strange against the background of the fact that in an interview and before (2013), and after (2016) The actress’s appeals confirmed her absence in social networks, including Instagram. Despite the superstar status of Roberts, on the @juliarobertsoriginal account either before or after the case with the message practically did not refer to the media for other occasions. The post itself is not completely original from an unbelied user-it contains numerous quotes-inserts from the song Pretty Hurts singers Beyoncé. At the same time, the first part of the message appeared on Facebook at least September 1, 2015 (earlier than on Instagram), about which testify numerous citation on the specified date. In one of these posts there are link on the Facebook page Julia Roberts, which today does not contain any publication and marked As unofficial, despite the fact that it has more than 600,000 followers.

Recall that the Instagram account, from which a wave of quotation of the circulation went, has also been deleted for today. At the same time, the photograph that Julia Roberts allegedly posted in her personal account (in the text hinting that it shows people something new) is a frame from photo shoots without makeupThe famous photographer Chuck Klowz arranged 20 American stars in early 2014. These pictures were published In the March issue of Vanity Fair magazine. At the same time, there are practically no professional photographs in Roberts’s verified account - mainly pictures from personal devices and Advertising photo. And for the above appeal, it would be more logical to make a new selfie without makeup, and not upload a magazine picture of one and a half year ago with the words “Today I have wrinkles”. In other words, the issue of authorship of even the first part of the message, despite quoting in a number of authoritative magazines, raises very big doubts.

Thus, the second half of the text (the one on which the emphasis is placed in many viral publications) is definitely invented, and the beginning of the message also has a very dubious origin.

Photo on the cover: social networks / Vanity Fair

Most likely not true

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