Shannen Doherty has finally got the message right between the eyes. So to speak.
Bucking one trend while utilizing another, the “Beverly Hills 90210” star took to Instagram Saturday to post a picture of her un-done-up face to express her desire to quit with the Hollywood beauty perfection myth.
The caption was just as unfiltered as the pic.
“Watching movies tonight and noticed there were few female characters I could relate to. You know, women without fillers, without Botox, without a facelift. Women who embraced their face and all the experience it showed. I have lived. I love that I’ve lived and that my face reflects my life. I survived a lot yes cancer but more than that. I embrace me now. Finally. Done with the perception magazines and Hollywood try to make us in to. I want to see women like me. Women like us.”
Many IG fans lauded Doherty with loving and thoughtful comments.
“You are beautiful and I love this,” said one fan.
“More beauty revealed in your words and you being you. Beautiful inside and out,” said another.
And another noted, “Aging is a privilege afforded to few. You wear your journey beautifully.”
As People explained, Doherty has previously detailed her first fight with breast cancer that lasted from 2015-2017, and it was that battle that really started to cement Doherty’s realistic beliefs in the destructive elements of stardom for many women.
"What [people] don't realize is that your body has been through something so incredibly difficult that your body never fully bounces back… I'm trying to figure out how to accept who I am now," she added. "I'm never going to be the size I used to be. Some of my meds that I'm on keep zapping the collagen out of me, so I'm never going to have a wrinkle-free face. I'm critical of myself. But there are some things you can't fight."
The “Charmed” star revealed in February, 2020, that the cancer had returned in 2019 and progressed to stage 4, but in another push/pull with stardom’s demands, decided to hold back on announcing the news right away.
Doherty finally revealed the news after reuniting with her 90210 family for the rebooted “BH90210,” shortly after the death of their co-star Luke Perry in March, 2019.
"One of the reasons, along with Luke, that I did 90210 and didn't really tell anybody [was],” she revealed to ABC News at the time, “because I thought, people can look at that [as] people with stage 4 can work too. Our life doesn't end the minute we get that diagnosis. We still have some living to do."
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