Early-oughts pop icon Mandy Moore is under fire for her “unrecognizable” appearance, with fans branding the singer an overzealous plastic surgery enthusiast.
During the press tour for her upcoming Netflix film, The Breadwinner, Moore has faced ongoing scrutiny about perceived cosmetic changes.
The 42-year-old actress and musician reflected on her most memorable beauty and fashion looks in an interview with Allure magazine this week.
While the retrospective video focused on outfits from the early music videos and films, viewers fixated on her appearance, comparing Moore’s face now with how it looked at the beginning of her career.
One person wrote, “I had no clue who that was until I read the video headline. Insane.”
Another lamented, “How can someone change so much??!!! She was stunning.”
This led to quick speculation among fans about possible cosmetic surgery.
Mandy Moore, promoting
“She did something to her eyes,” one commenter wrote, while another said, “She looks beautiful, but she didn’t need the eye surgery.”
Mandy Moore appears as her character, Jamie Sullivan, in the 2002 film, ‘A Walk To Remember.’ / A Walk to Remember/IMDB
Another echoed, “The upper bleph really did a number on how she looks,” insinuating that Moore had undergone eyelid surgery to remove excess skin.
Moore’s breakthrough acting role was as Jamie Sullivan in the 2002 romance A Walk to Remember, in which she had dark hair and flushed, cherubic cheekbones.
Mandy Moore appears as her character Rebecca in ‘This Is Us.’ / This Is Us/ IMDB
Now, 24 years later, she has grown up considerably, playing more mature roles and, outside her career, marrying musician Taylor Goldsmith, 40, in 2018. She and her husband have three young children together: Gus, 5, Oscar, 3, and Louise, 1.
In Hollywood, she moved from playing mean-girl cheerleader types in The Princess Diaries (2001) and Saved! (2004) to playing Rebecca, a nuanced mother of triplets, in the 2016 NBC drama This Is Us.
Mandy Moore attends the Baby2Baby 10-Year Gala with dark brown hair and a black dress at the Pacific Design Center in 2021. / AUDE GUERRUCCI / REUTERS
Moore joined pop culture writer and podcaster Evan Ross Katz on an episode of Shut Up Evan while promoting The Breadwinner.
Although the pair had a nostalgic discussion over the singer’s career, the comments on Katz’s Instagram post repromoting the episode focused on fans’ perceptions of her appearance.
“Is Mandy Moore in the room with us?” one wrote. “That’s Mandy Moore?”
Commenters repeatedly shared the theory that Moore had undergone facial surgery, specifically on her eyes.
“The upper blephs have GOT to stop,” one comment read.
Another user wrote, “Celebs gotta stop with the upper blephs,” referring to blepharoplasty, also known as an eye lift.
“People think everyone in Hollywood has had a nose job or some work done, but it’s not always true,” she told PopSugar in 2018. “People are going to believe what they want, and that’s fine. And if having work done is going to make somebody feel better about themselves, then more power to them.”
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