Why Carrie Coon, 44, Doesn’t Get Botox

If you tuned into the last season of The White Lotus, you were likely taken aback by the ultra luxurious scenery, complicated family dynamics and the all-around sense of anxiety that consumed the drama-filled season, but we were particularly stunned by actress Carrie Coon’s emotional and provocative performance. Playing opposite Meghann Fahy and Leslie Bibb, Coon’s raw, real storyline had viewers enthralled, and as she revealed in a recent interview with Glamour, the 44-year-old actress credits her lack of this popular neurotoxin treatment to her success in many of her most popular roles.

Why Carrie Coon Doesn’t Get Neurotoxins

In the world of cosmetic treatments today, Botox is often seen as the gateway to an in-office anti-aging routine. But for many actors like Coon herself, the renowned neurotoxin is put on the back burner as the muscle-relaxing properties can impact one’s facial expressions. And as the actress revealed to Glamour this month, Coon’s personal decision to not get Botox has massively impacted the roles she’s gotten cast in throughout her career.

When asked whether she seeks out the “complex,” often mature roles she’s known for playing or she gets typecast into them, Coon settled on the latter, and credits that fact largely to her lack of Botox. “We all have a way we present in the world,” she told the outlet. “The perception of me is that I am verbal, intellectual. My voice is lower and I don’t have Botox, so I tend to play older than I am,” she explains. “And so I’ve always had a gravitas or some authority.” In actuality, though, the actress says her off-screen persona is quite the opposite. “To my family, I am just a goofball,” she says. “It sounds like I protest too much, but I’m easygoing. I’m very lighthearted. I’m very silly. I’m a very silly mom.”

While Coon has chosen to take the approach of aging naturally, plenty of celebs and actresses have been open about their neurotoxin treatments. “Everybody f*cking does it. I suppose I can’t say ‘everybody’ because I don’t know for sure, but come on,” actress Robin Wright said previously to The Telegraph.

“I have done Botox and I LOVED it,” The Roses actress Olivia Colman said in an interview with BBC Radio 2. “I didn’t tell my husband and then for about six months he kept saying, ‘Hello, pretty!’ and then I told him and he found it hilarious.”