Sarah Paulson has a pretty direct answer for anyone convinced she’s had work done: she hasn’t. “I don’t put anything in my face. I have no goo in there,” the 51-year-old All’s Fair star says on the Nov. 12 episode of Chelsea Handler’s Dear Chelsea podcast.
The topic came up because of where she sat for their interview. Handler noticed Paulson had taken the other end of the couch, and Paulson had an explanation: “I have a better side of my face.” (Relatable.) She likes to be shot from that side “as much as possible,” though not every role cooperates. Playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, she says, they shot her on “all different sides.”
Handler, curious, wanted to know what was wrong with the other one. “It’s just less sharp. It’s just a little softer. And I don’t put anything in my face. I have no goo in there,” Paulson says. Then came the part the internet has been waiting to argue about. “I don’t do anything to my face, but I could,” she says. “Everyone thinks I have.” What, exactly, do they think? “Oh, people all over the internet think that I’ve done my lips, my forehead, everything. I’ve done nothing to my face.”
Handler, for what it’s worth, says she could tell. “No, I can see that you’ve done nothing. I don’t mean that in a negative way. You look like you, and you don’t look like you need anything,” she says, before predicting “a big rebellion against plastic surgery.”
Paulson didn’t exactly pledge to join it. “I look at facelifts on the internet every day,” she says, though she takes no shots at injectables or surgery in these remarks. The verdict: her face is her own, her angles are non-negotiable and her browser history is none of our business.
