Comfortable in her own skin: actor Jane Fonda

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Comfortable in her own skin: actor Jane Fonda

yesterday.

Picture: a Cifra

Jane Fonda says plastic not so fantastic

Sutherland

02mar06

IT'S taken her nearly 60 years, but Jane Fonda has

life worked out.

Along the way the actor and activist has found God and

important causes and lost three husbands and a pair of

breast implants.

In Melbourne yesterday to promote her autobiography,

My Life So Far, Fonda said she had her breast implants

removed as part of her growing embrace of feminism.

" They were too much of a reminder of someone I wasn't

any more and I was ashamed, " she said.

Fonda, 68, decried the growing trend of American women

heading for the surgeon to avoid looking their age.

" I think that we have to try hard to realise that good

enough is good enough, " she said.

" We're not supposed to be perfect. That what makes us

unique is what makes us special.

" There are so many beautiful women who I knew before

plastic surgery and it's gone now, it's gone.

" They've lost the very thing that made them unique and

special and beautiful and it's because they didn't

realise they were good enough -- and this is such a

disease among women all over the world.

" I'm so happy that it hasn't really come to Australia

that much. People are starting to look alike in

America and it's scary. "

Fonda, who returned to the screen after 15 years for

last year's hit romantic comedy Monster-in-Law by

Melbourne director Luketic, said she wasn't

immune to the pressure.

" Since everyone's doing it, the pressure is so great

to not look as old as you are. I'm scared. It's

scary, " she said.

In her book, Fonda covers her visit to North Vietnam

to expose president Nixon's campaign to bomb

the country's system of dikes.

She doesn't regret the visit or her campaign to end

the war, but does regret being pictured near an

anti-aircraft gun, something she said she immediately

wished she hadn't done.

" A lot of people didn't understand the war and didn't

understand that Nixon was lying to the American

people, making us think he was ending the war, " Fonda

said.

" They didn't realise the war was escalating because

the ground troops were mostly home, and they couldn't

really see it because it was an air war and there were

no more body bags, and so it was unknown to most

American people.

" I wanted to expose that and I helped to expose that

and many Vietnam veterans thanked me for helping to

end the war. "

Fonda said the war in Iraq made her despair.

" Oh it made me so sad, it made me so, so sad that we

didn't learn the lessons that Vietnam had to teach

us, " she said.

My Life So Far is out through Random House.

[Guest guest]

I would say that Jane has become a wise woman! I applaud her.

Kathy

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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18317248%

255E2902,00.html

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> Comfortable in her own skin: actor Jane Fonda

> yesterday.

> Picture: a Cifra

>

>

> Jane Fonda says plastic not so fantastic

> Sutherland

> 02mar06

>

> IT'S taken her nearly 60 years, but Jane Fonda has

> life worked out.

>

> Along the way the actor and activist has found God and

> important causes and lost three husbands and a pair of

> breast implants.

> In Melbourne yesterday to promote her autobiography,

> My Life So Far, Fonda said she had her breast implants

> removed as part of her growing embrace of feminism.

>

> " They were too much of a reminder of someone I wasn't

> any more and I was ashamed, " she said.

>

> Fonda, 68, decried the growing trend of American women

> heading for the surgeon to avoid looking their age.

>

> " I think that we have to try hard to realise that good

> enough is good enough, " she said.

>

> " We're not supposed to be perfect. That what makes us

> unique is what makes us special.

>

> " There are so many beautiful women who I knew before

> plastic surgery and it's gone now, it's gone.

>

> " They've lost the very thing that made them unique and

> special and beautiful and it's because they didn't

> realise they were good enough -- and this is such a

> disease among women all over the world.

>

> " I'm so happy that it hasn't really come to Australia

> that much. People are starting to look alike in

> America and it's scary. "

>

> Fonda, who returned to the screen after 15 years for

> last year's hit romantic comedy Monster-in-Law by

> Melbourne director Luketic, said she wasn't

> immune to the pressure.

>

> " Since everyone's doing it, the pressure is so great

> to not look as old as you are. I'm scared. It's

> scary, " she said.

>

> In her book, Fonda covers her visit to North Vietnam

> to expose president Nixon's campaign to bomb

> the country's system of dikes.

>

> She doesn't regret the visit or her campaign to end

> the war, but does regret being pictured near an

> anti-aircraft gun, something she said she immediately

> wished she hadn't done.

>

> " A lot of people didn't understand the war and didn't

> understand that Nixon was lying to the American

> people, making us think he was ending the war, " Fonda

> said.

>

> " They didn't realise the war was escalating because

> the ground troops were mostly home, and they couldn't

> really see it because it was an air war and there were

> no more body bags, and so it was unknown to most

> American people.

>

> " I wanted to expose that and I helped to expose that

> and many Vietnam veterans thanked me for helping to

> end the war. "

>

> Fonda said the war in Iraq made her despair.

>

> " Oh it made me so sad, it made me so, so sad that we

> didn't learn the lessons that Vietnam had to teach

> us, " she said.

>

> My Life So Far is out through Random House.

>