Julia Roberts says she’s taken a big career risk by not having a facelift

SHE’S an Oscar winner and one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women. But Julia Roberts says she’s “taken a big risk” with her career by not having a facelift.

JULIA Roberts says she’s “taken a big risk” with her career by not having a facelift in her 40s.

In an interview to promote her role as the face of beauty brand Lancome, the 46-year-old Roberts said she’d rather let nature take its course and age naturally, rather than go under the knife.

“By Hollywood standards, I guess I’ve already taken a big risk in not having had a facelift, but I’ve told Lancome that I want to be an ageing model — so they have to keep me for at least five more years until I’m over 50,” Roberts told You magazine.

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“Taken a big risk” ... Julia Roberts says she would rather grow old naturally. Picture: Jason Merritt / Getty Images for GLSEN Respect Awards-Los Angeles

Roberts also talked about how studying yoga and de-cluttering her life has given her an inner peace as she grows older.

“It’s about non-grasping, non-hoarding, cleaning out your closet, dusting out your mind and letting go of the things that weigh you down mentally and emotionally,” she said.

“There’s a lightness to my life now — an airy quality of not taking things too seriously. That’s happiness.”

Won an Oscar in 2001 ... actress Julia Roberts says she found inner peace after taking up yoga. Picture: Jason Merritt / Getty Images for GLSEN Respect Awards-Los Angeles

The Oscar-winning actress said happiness also comes if she manages to get her teeth brushed and lip balm on in the mornings. After two decades at the helm of Hollywood, the Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich star now spends most of her time at her family ranch in New Mexico.

She and her cameraman husband Danny Moder have three children, seven-year-old Henry and nine-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus.

“Mornings are a high-humour scene. You just have to make sure everyone looks and smells clean,” she said.

“That’s all that matters. If I actually manage to get my teeth brushed and lip balm on, I’m good.”

Roberts said she often thinks about the reality of her life “versus a mother who, say, lives in Kansas City and is struggling to pick up the kids when she gets off work, or who doesn’t get to choose not to go to work because she wants to stay at home with the kids”.

She said those mothers, who include her girlfriends, are her “real-life heroes”.

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