Izabel Goulart has become the unlikely focus of aplastic surgery stormafter stepping onto the Cannes Film Festival red carpet in France on Monday, where the 41-year-old Victoria's Secret alum unveiled a new look that many online viewers branded 'unrecognisable.'
Izabel Goulart is not just another face on a step-and-repeat. The Brazilian model has been a fixture in high fashion for nearly two decades, breaking through at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2005 and later becoming an official Angel from 2005 to 2008.
She continued working with the lingerie giant until 2016 while fronting campaigns for Chanel, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Loewe and Roberto Cavalli, and landing multiple appearances inVogue. Her image has long traded on a mix of athletic discipline and natural glamour, which is partly why the reaction to her Cannes appearance was so sharp.
Supermodel Izabel Goulart deemed 'unrecognisable' by shocked fans after debuting bizarre new lookhttps://t.co/sVXAC92ZLk
On Monday's red carpet, Izabel Goulart wore a shimmering bustier gown, her hair scraped back into an ultra-tight ponytail and her make-up dialled up to festival intensity. It was the hair, more than the dress, that set social media off. Users quickly began poring over high-resolution images and videos, suggesting that her brows looked higher, her eyes tighter, and her overall expression markedly different from the model they thought they knew.
'Where is Izabel?!?' one commenter wrote under Goulart's own post from the event, as others piled in to insist her face had changed. One social media user suggested that the new look left her appearing 'shocked and surprised at everything,' and floated the idea that she might have undergone a brow lift.
Eu to passada em como a Izabel Goulart virou outra pessoapic.twitter.com/v7qKQ1hEAV
Not everyone agreed that surgery, or even injectables, were necessarily involved. Some followers argued that the combination of a severe ponytail, unforgiving flash photography and heavy Cannes make-up was enough to reshape anyone's features on camera. Others urged caution, pointing out that celebrity images are routinely edited and filtered before fans ever see them.
Even so, the debate did not die down. A different fan referenced a recent make-up-free reel and insisted that, stripped of glam, something still looked 'noticeably' altered. 'I just saw a new reel of her without makeup and her face looks different,' the commenter wrote. 'Something in her eyes, really. She's still beautiful, but she lost her natural features.'
Goulart's team did not immediately respond to a request for comment cited by The Daily Beast. With no confirmation from the model or her representatives about any cosmetic procedures, the current wave ofplastic surgery claimsremains speculative.
Source: International Business Times UK
