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Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Renée Zellweger has responded to Internet chatter about her appearance. In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, the Oscar winner says she looks different because she is healthier and happier than ever – and she's fine with people taking notice.
"I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows," Zellweger, 45, says of the attention she received after an appearance at the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards in Beverly Hills on Monday.
Calling the conversation about her appearance "silly," she says she is choosing to address it because "it seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth which doesn't exist won't get off my porch until I answer the door."
"My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy," Zellweger continues. "For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn't allow for taking care of myself. Rather than stopping to recalibrate, I kept running until I was depleted and made bad choices about how to conceal the exhaustion. I was aware of the chaos and finally chose different things."
That healthier, slower-paced lifestyle – and her happy relationship with boyfriend Doyle Bramhall – helped her turn a corner. "I did work that allows for being still, making a home, loving someone, learning new things, growing as a creative person and finally growing into myself," she says.
Renée Zellweger (left) and Nanci Ryder at the Walk to Defeat ALS in Los Angeles
And if some people don't recognize the new Renée Zellweger, one thing they should understand is she's comfortable in her own skin.
"People don't know me in my 40s," says Zellweger, who prefers to lead a quiet life with Bramhall and a close circle of friends. Recently, she pitched in to help her pal and longtime publicist, Nanci Ryder, who is battling ALS, at the ALS Association Golden West Chapter's annual Walk to Defeat ALS in Los Angeles.
"People don't know me [as] healthy for a while," says Zellweger. "Perhaps I look different. Who doesn't as they get older?! Ha. But I am different. I'm happy."
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Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
I don't think I've ever seen her eyes before and it's weirding me out. Meg Ryan looked different but you could tell it was her- I would never know this is Renee unless she was wearing sunglasses.
Good for her for being happy though
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| Posted 10/22/14 7:02 AM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
I think she looks very aged now.
Like she aged 15 years in a few months.
Great job, plastic surgeon, great job....
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| Posted 10/22/14 8:48 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Like I said in the other thread, healthy my a$$.
Being healthy and happy doesn't mean you wake up one morning with a completely new face that looks NOTHING like the old face you've been sporting for 45 years.
She should admit what is SO obvious, she had plastic surgery. Denying it when you don't even look like yourself anymore makes you look like an idiot.
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NervousNell
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Posted by Hofstra26
Like I said in the other thread, healthy my a$$.
Being healthy and happy doesn't mean you wake up one morning with a completely new face that looks NOTHING like the old face you've been sporting for 45 years.
She should admit what is SO obvious, she had plastic surgery. Denying it when you don't even look like yourself anymore makes you look like an idiot.
Kind of like when JWOW said she never did anything to her face.
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| Posted 10/22/14 8:54 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
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Posted by Hofstra26
Like I said in the other thread, healthy my a$$.
Being healthy and happy doesn't mean you wake up one morning with a completely new face that looks NOTHING like the old face you've been sporting for 45 years.
She should admit what is SO obvious, she had plastic surgery. Denying it when you don't even look like yourself anymore makes you look like an idiot.
Kind of like when JWOW said she never did anything to her face.
Exactly!!!!
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| Posted 10/22/14 8:59 AM |
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
is the top pic of her the same form the other thread? Maybe it's my eyes today vs. yesterday   b/c in that pic, she looks totally different .........not just the normal we can see her eyes b/c she's not squinting thing -
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| Posted 10/22/14 11:27 AM |
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Posted by MarisaK
is the top pic of her the same form the other thread? Maybe it's my eyes today vs. yesterday b/c in that pic, she looks totally different .........not just the normal we can see her eyes b/c she's not squinting thing -
No - same event, different pic.
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
I don't get the "shame" in saying/admitting you had work done, whether it's plastic surgery or injections. 
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Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
I feel bad for her if she felt she had to change. I always liked her. I loved BJD. One of my favorite movies.
Sometimes I think they have so much pressure on them from the people around them (as well as the pressure they put on themselves) that people snap and think they need all this work.
all the money in the world and still not happy, it seems.
I don't think she looks bad,.,but she doesn't look like renee anymore. :(
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Posted by Hofstra26
Like I said in the other thread, healthy my a$$.
Being healthy and happy doesn't mean you wake up one morning with a completely new face that looks NOTHING like the old face you've been sporting for 45 years.
She should admit what is SO obvious, she had plastic surgery. Denying it when you don't even look like yourself anymore makes you look like an idiot.
 
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| Posted 10/22/14 9:28 PM |
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Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Feel like she kind of looks like a blonde Jennifer Connelly now
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| Posted 10/22/14 10:35 PM |
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Mrs213
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Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
I think she had eyelid surgery, her eyelids were always rather hooded and squinty looking, now she looks wide-eyed
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| Posted 10/22/14 10:35 PM |
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
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I don't think she looks bad,.,but she doesn't look like renee anymore. :(
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Exactly.
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| Posted 10/23/14 5:57 AM |
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
Posted by Mrs213
I think she had eyelid surgery, her eyelids were always rather hooded and squinty looking, now she looks wide-eyed
I agree
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Re: Renée Zellweger to PEOPLE: 'I'm Glad Folks Think I Look Different'
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Posted by Hofstra26
Like I said in the other thread, healthy my a$$.
Being healthy and happy doesn't mean you wake up one morning with a completely new face that looks NOTHING like the old face you've been sporting for 45 years.
She should admit what is SO obvious, she had plastic surgery. Denying it when you don't even look like yourself anymore makes you look like an idiot.
Yea, totally agree. Lack of Botox does not make your eyes bigger. It's obvious, so either own your sh1t or don't even release a statement.
It's not the worse surgery and she doesn't look bad but she looked better before. She had a unique look about her that made her Renee Z and now she's vanilla.
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