Tina Fey Says No To Botox

Tina Fey told Harper’s Bazaar that Botox is bad – and when overdone, can make a person’s face look like a candle.

Tina Fey told Harper’s Bazaar that she’s had enough success to buy a more stylish wardrobe, but she draws the line at Botox injections.

“You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don’t think Botox is for me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in an interview set for an October 20 release. “I think it is bad.”

Her main issue with Botox injections is that the results can be all too obvious, especially among those who overdo it. “[They] look like their faces are full of candles – a shiny, shiny face,” she told the magazine. “Festive. A holiday candle.”

Fey, now 39, is naturally pretty and has avoided plastic surgery – Botox and the rest. But, she does still care how she looks, and when shooting episodes of 30 Rock, the creator-star will sometimes tell the camera operator to film her from the waist up.

“If there is a shot that is bad, I can take it out,” she said. “That is why L.A. is so bad, because they can take your picture from any side. That is why people in L.A. maintain 360-degree fitness. I don’t have that kind of time.”

Her time on camera is actually an often careful process, due to a troubling injury during her childhood. When Tina Fey was only five years old, standing in her front yard, a stranger walked up to her and slashed the left side of her face, cheek to chin.

“Somebody just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen,” Fey’s husband Jeff Richmond told Vanity Fair for a feature that appeared in January 2009. Fey doesn’t discuss the incident much, but the scar is still there – and she admitted to Vanity Fair that when she is on camera – she tends to let the lens favor her right side.

She added that the scar didn’t make her feel unattractive growing up. “I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “It’s really almost like I’m kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of ‘Oh, I guess we should use this side’ or whatever.”

Fey won’t be letting Botox get the “better side” of her. Who would want to look waxy, anyway?