This voluptuous woman who has an American coffee in the living room of a large Parisian hotel agitates hands carefully manucurées. She shakes a mane brushinguée US way. But never, never, even when it launches out in muscular flights against certain cosmetic products, it does not fold the face. Six years that it is very smooth. Tended like an arc by of Botox. “And then? smiles Paula Begoun, 53 years. Look at Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Jessica Parker… That made well ten years that more no face moves in Hollywood. What you want, no cream cannot compete with an injection of Botox! ” Paralysed A little brain also, this Mrs Begoun, who had a time the badge honor to make up president Jimmy Carter? Taratata.

This vain which ingurgite, in a quasi compulsive way, the scientific foultitudes of publications for its 18 years, has been incollable on Paraben (this conservative very largely widespread in the beauty products) and other synthetic components. Yes, this woman who takes care to gum her wrinkles has played, for on the other side of the Atlantic twenty-five years, the fliquess of the world of the cosmetic. With blows of books, of which it sold some 3 million specimens, of the style Blue Eyeshadow Should Absolutely Illegal Be (“one should prohibit the blue make-up with eyelids”, devoted so that the industry of the cosmetic prefers to hide with the consumers). And, on Internet, where it distils its councils and reviews all the topicality of the beauty (the worst kind produced month…). The recent European version of the site must be available soon in French.

Appraisal of the plates of TV (The Oprah Winfrey Show, for example), where the producers nevertheless request it to go there mollo on the name of the marks (thus of the advertisers), it is on the other hand tricarde in all the American female magazines which draw a very big part from their subsidies of pubs for beauty products: “One day, Helen Gurley Brown, the mythical writer in chief of Cosmopolitan, said all to me it although it thought of my books, but prevented me that never it would not mention me in her magazine” (sighs).

Like the every years at the same time, one praises us new creams anticellulite. Does it go?

Completely useless. These products appeared in the Seventies. Since time, if it went and considering all the creams whose women paste themselves, one should not more see cellulitis on the beaches of the Riviera! It is often said that cafeine is effective. Personally, I live Seattle, the town of birth of the Starbucks coffees. That made thirty years that I drink some and I still did not note improvement.

Finally, that do you advise?

To thus protect itself from the rays of the sun. And not to smoke. To smoke necroses the capillaries, breaks the élasticine, collagen… It is perhaps still worse than the sun. What good is it to buy super creams if one smokes, it is as to eat broccolis not to catch a lung cancer when one is smoker! Lastly, I advise with the young women not to waste their money in beauty products. But to place it at the bank to offer itself, later, with the interests, a good plastic surgeon.