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Has Saffron Burrows got the trout pout to end all trout pouts?
Last updated at 16:14pm on 06.03.08She's a 35-year-old actress whose good looks have won her many admirers and a previous career as a model.
However it seems Saffron Burrows has gone one giant step too far in her attempt to achieve fuller lips and ended up with possibly the world's worst trout pout.
It was hard not notice the British-born beauty's 'bee-stung lips' and sunken cheeks as she attended the premiere of her latest movie, The Bank Job, in New York.
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Saffron Burrows towers over co-star Jason Statham at the New York premiere of The Bank Job, but it's her newly-acquired 'trout pout' which is attracting all the attention
Her foray into collagen implants - or perhaps just an over-zealous approach when applying her lip-liner - overshadowed her otherwise immaculate appearance.
Wearing a gorgeous Grecian-style blue dress and with her pre-Raphaelite locks cascading loosely down one shoulder, the actress resembled the model she was once - if you could get pass the overdone lips and highly-pronounced cheeks.
The actress was perhaps looking to stars who naturally possess a pair of luscious lips - such as Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson - for inspiration.
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She has model looks, but the 35-year-old actress seems to have gone for the Joker look
However she has ended up resembling former 'trout pout' queens Leslie Ash, Meg Ryan and Britt Ekland instead.
While Burrows has appeared in a number of popular movies inluded Deep Blue Sea and Troy, it is her personal life which has always been more interesting than her screen work.
In the past she has dated director Mike Figgis and was engaged to bisexual actor Alan Cumming.
She is now the partner of acclaimed Irish actress Fiona Shaw.
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Before the 'trout-pout' look, Saffron on the London stage in 2005 in 'Some Girls' (left); and the actress in New York this week (right)
The actress was discovered at 15 in London's Covent Garden, by the same scout who discovered Naomi Campbell, and embarked on a successful career as a model.
She modelled in Paris and London for Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent and Vivienne Westwood. But she'd studied drama since she was a child and made her first film at the age of 17, leaving the catwalk behind.
Beautiful blondes yet they have both succumbed to collagen implants in their desire for bigger lips; Leslie Ash (left) and Meg Ryan (right)
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Reader views (3)
Oh dear, another woman ruining her looks with the 'thick lips syndrome'. NOT a pretty sight.
- Paul Wilson, London, UK
Goodness, doesn't Meg Ryan look beautiful! She's ageing gracefully and has an air of natural elegance. She puts younger, style-obsessed actresses, to shame.
- Jonathan, Osaka, Japan
She looks so scary!
- James, London
