Gwyneth: Botox made me look like a crazy Joan Rivers

Gwyneth Paltrow 40, has admitted she tried Botox injections to look younger but claimed that the procedure made her look like a “crazy Joan Rivers”.

The actress refused to rule out having cosmetic surgery to keep herself looking young. “I would be scared to go under the knife, but talk to me when I’m 50. I’ll try anything. Except I won’t do Botox again, because I looked crazy.”

TV presenter Rivers, 79, is a famous adherent of plastic surgery.

Paltrow, who is married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin with whom she has two children, admitted she had tried Thermage laser treatment. She said: “It feels like someone’s smacking your face with a rubber band that has an electric shock in it. But I would do it again because I feel like it took five years off my face.”

Never one to keep quiet for long, Rivers shared her feelings on the matter with 'People' magazine and, characteristically, kept her sense of humour about Paltrow's comments.

“First reaction: ‘Ooh, she watches [my show] 'Fashion Police'!’” Rivers told the mag. “It just made me laugh. She says Botox made her scary like Joan Rivers? She should see what I look like without Botox. That’s really scary!”

More seriously, Rivers revealed that she has always been open about her plastic surgery because she feels that lying about it is more of an insult to women. “I’ve always been open about what I do, because I want [women] to be able to get Botox and not look like a Sharpei,” she said. “[Lying about having work done] is such a put down to women. It says to the average woman: ‘I’m beautifully naturally and you’re not.’”

Paltrow is promoting her new movie 'Iron Man 3'. In an interview with 'Harper's Bazaar', she confessed her secret vice was smoking, although she only had one cigarette a week.

“It’s what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu,” she said. “My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.”

She hit back at critics who claim she has banned her children Apple, eight, and Moses, seven, from eating carbohydrates. She said: “They say I don’t give my kids carbs and I’m feeding them seaweed. But they eat Oreos, too.”