Kim Cattrall has made one hell of a bold public statement, especially for a woman intent on dating younger men. She’s vowed that she won’t ever get plastic surgery, and won’t try to look like she’s twenty. I say right on… but ask me again in fifteen years and I might have a different response.

Kim Cattrall has vowed never to have plastic surgery – because she thinks she’d become unrecognisable.

At 51, the Sex And The City star insists she’s not bothered at losing her looks.

‘I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. But I’ve no desire to look as though I’m in my 20s,’ Kim, who played Samantha in the hit US show, tells the Daily Express.

‘I don’t think I’d try plastic surgery. I’d be too frightened I’d end up not looking like myself. I don’t want to look in the mirror and see The Joker from Batman staring back at me!’

[From NOW Magazine]

Kim is 51, and whenever I see pictures of her I always think how old she looks for her age. It just hit me that that’s not the case at all – she looks great for 51. But we’re so used to seeing actresses donning faces pulled within an inch of their lives, and we get used to that look. It becomes the norm, and an expectation. Kim looks fabulous, and she still looks like herself.

Some friends of mine have a seven-year-old daughter who told me she thought all the women in the movies and on TV were related. We had a long discussion, and apparently she came to that conclusion because so many of them looked the same to her. I thought it was really cute at the time, and just assumed she couldn’t distinguish faces of people she didn’t know well. Totally age appropriate. But when I re-think it, she’s right. So many women get work done, and instead of trying to look like a better version of themselves, they try to all look like each other. And they all come out looking sort of related.

I say to each her own, but bravo to Kim for looking like herself.

Kim Cattrall is shown sitting next to designer Vivienne Westwood at her fashion show at Berlin fashion week on 7/20/08. She’s also shown on 7/19, 7/16, and 7/17 with Eva Padberg. Credit: WENN