Melanie Griffith, who turns 67 on August 9, has long been Hollywood’s belle, but she’s taken a lot of fire over the years for seeking the fountain of youth. Admitting she “was so hurt” by critics who thought she had gone too far, the superstar quit attempting to prevent aging and instead reversed the extensive surgeries that transformed her appearance.
“Hopefully, I look more normal now,” Griffith remarked, reflecting on her decision to accept her natural beauty. Continue reading to learn about Griffith’s path to appreciating her true self! Melanie Griffith, now 66, is the glue that keeps together one of Hollywood’s most illustrious family lines. She is the only daughter of the renowned Tippi Hedren, best known for her part in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and the proud mother of 34-year-old Dakota Johnson from the Fifty Shades franchise.
Griffith, when a youngster, won a role as an extra in 1973’s The Harrad Experiment, which starred her mother and future husband Don Johnson, a 22-year-old with whom she instantly connected. When she was only 17, the young star received her first significant role in the 1975 film Night Moves, alongside Gene Hackman and James Woods.
“She’s always been a young filly at the gate,” Hedren, then 94, told Newsweek in 1975. “She can’t wait to get into the race.” Her outstanding performance secured the 17-year-old two more films: Smile and The Drowning Pool, where she played “a provocative Lolita giving the come‑on to Paul Newman.”\ As Griffith aged, fans watched her dramatic transformations. Some changes were natural, others a result of plastic-surgery choices, for which she’s taken some heat.
Initially pleased with the results the High Note star admits she was unaware of how drastically her cosmetic surgeries “she had over 20 years ago” changed her face. And the online population was quick to share their opinions on her altered look.
“I never would have known this was Melanie Griffith. She’s beautiful but unrecognizable. Sad,” writes one fan.A second user shares, “Melanie Griffith has had that level of plastic surgery that renders one unrecognizable as who they once were.”
Motivated by comments to see in herself what others saw, Griffith started to dissolve the fillers. “I didn’t [realize] until people started saying, ‘Oh my god, what has she done?!’ I was so hurt,” she recalled. “I went to a different doctor, and he started dissolving all of this s**t that this other woman doctor had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now.”
