Seymour speaks up against Botox for celebrities

Hollywood actresses are destroying their faces with cosmetic surgery and Botox, British star Jane Seymour says. The 54-year-old, who strips naked in the hit comedy Wedding Crashers, also believes too much dieting and exercise leaves actresses sickly skinny and their faces gaunt.

"When I see people on television and nothing is moving and their eyebrows are up near the corner of their head I think, 'How can they do this? They're destroying their expression'," said the mother of six.

Seymour, clad in tight-fitting designer jeans and a revealing halter-neck top, admits to some minor cosmetic touch-ups but refuses to follow some of Hollywood's best-known leading ladies and have Botox injected to smooth lines or to have a facelift.

"I've had some things done to my eyes ... we've all had bags under our eyes in my family, so we removed the bags, but that's it."

Seymour, a Bond girl in 1973's Live and Let Die, and star of the popular 1990 TV series Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, is not always happy when she looks into the mirror but believes actresses should leave their faces intact. "If you are a dramatic actress or even comedic, you need all those frown lines."

Seymour doesn't shy away from sexy roles and stripped in front of Hollywood playboy Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers, where she plays the temptress wife of a politician. "Someone the other day if I had a body double and I said, 'Hell no'. Anyone crazy enough to ask me at 54 to show my body deserves it."

Seymour attributes her good looks to not smoking and not being obsessed with diets and exercise. "I think a lot of people over-exercise and then they get gaunt. I think a lot of women get too thin and it doesn't look good on your face."

- AAP