Off The Record
Gracefully Aging, Helen Hunt Is As Beautiful Today As She Was 10 Years Ago
Many celebrities are chasing youth in the hopes of reaching immortal beauty due to pressure from Hollywood and discerning fans who impose unachievable standards of perfection.
Helen Hunt is gorgeously accepting her aging flaws while letting go of other people’s expectations.
Helen Hunt, who has appeared in TV shows since she was a little child, grew up in front of millions of fans as they saw her mature from a young girl with a fresh face to the accomplished 59-year-old, whose years show on her face and enhance her inherent beauty.
When Hunt was just 11 years old, she began performing. She received her big break in the 1975–1976 television series The Swiss Family Robinson, which followed a shipwrecked family isolated on a volcanic island.
She portrayed Helga Wagner, a little child who was adopted by the Robinsons and came from the same shipwreck.
She later made appearances as Murray Slaughter’s daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in an episode of The Bionic Woman with Lindsay Wagner, and in Facts of Life, all of which were directed by Gavin McLeod.
In the 1977 film Rollercoaster, which starred Henry Fonda and George Segal, she made her film debut.
Her appearances in iconic 1980s movies like Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Project X (1987), and Next of Kin (1989), starring the late Patrick Swayze and Ben Stiller in one of his early parts, propelled her into stardom in the following decade.
With her breakthrough TV performance in the popular comedy series Mad About You, where she costarred with Paul Reiser, who later starred in the Netflix series Stranger Things, Hunt became a household figure in the 1990s.
She won three Golden Globes and four consecutive Emmy Awards for her humorous portrayal of one half of a wedding pair. A few episodes, including the 1999 series finale, were also directed by her.
Hunt said of her daughter and Reiser in an interview with People, “… My daughter loves Stranger Things so now when he calls she’s excited. She’s never seen an episode of Mad About You but she’s super psyched about Stranger Things!”
With Matthew Carnahan, her longtime companion of 16 years, Hunt has a daughter who was born in 2004.
Hunt is also well-known for her part as a storm chaser in the exhilarating 1996 film Twister, her Best Actress Oscar-winning performance in 1997’s As Good as it Gets, co-starring Hollywood heavyweight Jack Nicholson, and her roles in the 2000 films Cast Away and What Women Want.
In more recent years, she has appeared as a recurring character on Blindspotting and plays a journalist in BBC’s World on Fire. She has also contributed her directing talents to shows like This is Us, House of Lies, and Californication.
The plot for her Twister revival, which featured a diverse cast of storm chasers “from HBCU [historically Black college and university],” was rejected, she admitted in 2021.
“I tried to get it made,” Hunt said in 2021. “I was going to direct it… We could barely get a meeting, and this is in June of 2020 when it was all about diversity. It would have been so cool.”
Without Hunt, Twisters will be released by Universal Pictures in July 2024.
With her timeless performances and beauty, Hunt, who has received several nominations and awards, has been a mainstay in Hollywood culture over the years.
She has recently been the subject of numerous conversations due to her fame as one of Hollywood’s most known faces—a face that has evolved over the years.
With a career lasting more than four decades, it is normal and expected that there would be physical changes; yet, as a celebrity, Hunt is not shielded from the public’s unfiltered perceptions.
Following a 2019 collision in which she was a passenger and another vehicle t-boned her SUV, forcing it to flip over, rumors that she had plastic surgery began to circulate.
After a brief hospitalization, she totally recovered, and a week later, she was back at the Mad About You limited series reboot set.
When asked about playing the same part again, Hunt told People, “It was a very loving piece of work. We loved it. It would be fun to work on something that’s really about love. We’ll be older though — I hope people are prepared for that. I’m not prepared for it!”
Soon after, an article on Radar Online suggested that the celebrity had undergone too much plastic surgery.
She is described in the narrative as “ageless,” “mannequin-like,” and “…her expression more static than usual.”
Fans, though, immediately stood up for her. One wrote, “I’m not an expert on spotting facelifts and that but to me Helen Hunt today still looks like Helen Hunt from Mad About You, just older. Which is what happens when 3 decades pass, people get older.” Another wrote, “I think we are so used to seeing women who have puffed up their lips and lifted both eyes and forehead, that a woman who is aging normally looks odd to us.”
Hunt has remained mum on rumors that she had a nip and tuck to remove wrinkles from her face, but it’s likely that she has a makeup artist who can accomplish the same results with a few miraculous brushstrokes.
In actuality, there are a lot of Hollywood beauty tricks that keep stars appearing young.
There are effects when a pricy non-surgical spa treatment is combined with a good diet and exercise!
Hunt is highly active and doesn’t mind flaunting her toned body. She stated in an interview, “As a general rule, I tend to move. I don’t go to a gym ever. I don’t diet ever. I used to diet, but sometime after the eighties, it made me miserable, but I do like to walk, run, and I do like to surf when I can just to warm it up, and I do enjoy doing yoga when I can get there.”
Being a woman in Hollywood can be difficult, as we all know.
Hunt talked about how she has been objectified throughout her career in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter from 2019 and how she intends to contribute to the creation of a more inclusive.
“What are the great movies for younger women where they’re the protagonist [being] made now? You know what I mean? The whole thing — there’s no equal rights amendment. We’re f**ked,” Hunt told Huffington Post in 2015.
Hunt has participated in a number of humanitarian and advocacy initiatives throughout the years to support women’s rights and empowerment, speaking out against the objectification of women.
”I certainly drive around and I’m tired of the billboard where she’s barely in her underwear and they’re selling, you know, a watch or something,” Hunt said.
”I’m over it, to be honest.”
It can’t be easy for celebrities to deal with criticism from the public when they are out there performing their duties, which involves entertaining us.
The amazing Helen Hunt has undoubtedly changed over the many decades that we have seen her. She appears lovely to us, we think!
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