Sharon Stone has shared that one of her ex-boyfriends dumped her after she said she wouldn’t get Botox.
The star also revealed her past relationship with the cosmetic procedure.
She opened up about having to go through it in the wake of a health emergency.
The sixty-four-year-old suffered a “massive stroke” back in 2001 which transformed the way she viewed the procedure.
Read on for the full story.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1958, the star won a creative writing scholarship to Edinboro University when she was just fifteen.
However, in 1977, big success in a beauty pageant led to Stone leaving university and heading to New York with dreams of becoming a fashion model.
By the end of the eighties, Stone had established a budding film career for herself.
Highlights of the decade include her role in the mini-series War and Remembrance, as well as the 1987 movie Cold Steel.
However, it was the nineties when Stone really got her big break.
She began that decade starring opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, and from there the only way was up!
Then, just 2 years later, in what was arguably the biggest role of Stone’s whole career, was the 1992 flick Basic Instinct.
Her acclaimed performance garnered her a Golden Globe nomination, as well as a place as one of the biggest names in Hollywood.
From there on, there was no stopping the star!
She truly established herself as a leading lady, going on to star in hits such as Sliver and The Quick and the Dead.
In 1996, she was even nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Casino.
Although Stone missed out on winning the Oscar, she did bag the Golden Globe this time around!
However, in 2001, tragedy struck her life…
The star suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage at the age of just forty-two.
Stone opened up about the experience to The Hollywood Reporter a few years ago…
She spoke about the details of her experience: “I bled in my brain for 9 days. I spent 2 years learning to walk and talk again. I came home from that stroke stuttering, couldn’t read for 2 years.
“I came home from that stroke stuttering, couldn’t read for 2 years. I was in an ICU for 9 days and the survival rate for what I went through is very low,” Stone said.
She called the experience a “humbling journey.”
Although Stone understandably took a break from acting during this episode of her life, it wasn’t long before she was back on our big screens.
Her performance in Broken Flowers opposite Bill Murray is acknowledged as one of her best.
The star has continued to enjoy a prolific career even as she has gotten older.
In fact, Stone’s career has become perhaps even more interesting as she has taken on more experimental projects such as Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic.
Despite her success, she still keeps it real!
“One way to make sure you keep working in this town (if you want that) is to leave your s*** at home. Don’t go on a set and be a neurotic mess.”
Stone explained that “most people walk into a room and all they see is themselves.”
“Walk into the room and give yourself 3 minutes to see the other person,” she said, “As soon as you see how they’re doing, you can get on the same page, and the person sees you in return.”
“Then it’s not about being twenty-two or thirty-six or sixty-six or black or white or Hispanic. It’s about the human soul I’m sitting with.”
However, she has also spoken candidly about the realities of getting older.
“I actually find aging a benefit. I don’t choose to make growing older a negative. I choose to get older. Growing older is my goal,” Stone said.
She credits her brain hemorrhage for giving her this philosophy: “I know what the alternative to growing older is.”
“The key to looking good as you get older is, it all comes from the inside. You have to do what you like to do.
“If you hate to go to the gym, don’t put yourself on a gym regimen. Do what you like to do, but do it every day. I love to dance, and I dance hard,” Stone said.
Stone also credits her youthful looks to her sobriety.
“Perhaps another reason for the way I look is that I don’t drink. Any alcohol. I drank so little to begin with.
“Now I’m a big tea drinker, though rarely ones with caffeine. I have an apothecary of tea,” she explained.
The star has avoided Hollywood’s regular route of Botox to stay looking young.
Stone opened up to Vogue about exactly why…
She said that her health scare in the early oughts transformed the cosmetic procedure from a “cute luxury to some kind of massive, painful neurological need.”
“There were periods in the super fame when I got Botox and filler and stuff.
“Then I had this massive stroke and a 9-day brain hemorrhage and I had to have over 300 shots of Botox and filler to make the one side of my face come up again,” Stone explained.
However, she revealed that a younger ex-partner asked if she uses Botox.
“It would probably be really good for your ego and mine if I did,” she replied.
The couple’s relationship ended soon after that conversation…
She commented: “If you don’t see me for more than that, you’ll please find your way to the exit.”
