Sophia Loren responds to plastic surgery pressure

Actress Sophia Loren is widely-regarded as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, yet the star has revealed she was pressured to have plastic surgery as a young woman.

The 80-year-old recently opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about the criticism she received about her look.

“I always tried not to listen to these people,” she said.

“They were saying that my nose was too long and my mouth was too big. It didn’t hurt me at all because when I believe in something, it’s like war. It’s a battle. But even Carlo [Ponti] said, ‘You know the cameramen, they say that your nose is too long. Maybe you have to touch it a little bit.’ And I said, ‘Listen, I don’t want to touch nothing on my face because I like my face. If I have to change my nose, I am going back to Pozzuoli.’ At that time, they used to do noses like a French nose with a little tip at the end — they liked that. Can you imagine me with a nose like that?”

Sophia began her career at age 14 after entering a beauty pageant in 1949. She then went onto win an Oscar for her role in the film, Two Women.

In her memoir, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life, Sophia said: “I knew perfectly well that my beauty was the result of a lot of irregularities all blended together in one face, my face.”