{"id":498845,"date":"2026-06-27T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498845\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:21:12","slug":"nigella-lawson-on-ageing-sun-allergy-and-why-she-refuses-cosmetic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498845\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigella Lawson on ageing, sun allergy and why she refuses cosmetic surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cHaving a bit of fat on the face helps. I don\u2019t do filler or anything like that. Cosmetic work is a tyranny. I just think there\u2019s no point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Nigella also revealed she sees ageing as a privilege after losing her mother, sister and first husband to cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Nigella\u2019s mother Vanessa Salmon, died of liver cancer when Nigella was 25 and eight years later, the star lost her younger sister, Thomasina, to breast cancer at the age of 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">In 2001, Nigella\u2019s first husband, broadcaster John Diamond \u2013 the father of her children, Cosima, 32, and Bruno, 29 \u2013 died from throat cancer, at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">She explained: \u201cIt would be immoral if I complained about ageing \u2013 so I don\u2019t. We shouldn\u2019t complain about being old. Life is precious. I\u2019m not saying we can\u2019t all moan about things \u2013 I think one has to be allowed to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA sense of proportion is not always easy to hold onto. Loss is something you have to bear in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; BANG Showbiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: \u201cHaving a bit of fat on the face helps. I don\u2019t do filler or anything like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10791,24995,3529,95,430,41934,156,47525,111,139,146838,69,90,14447,20863,182,6290,4276],"class_list":["post-498845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ageing","tag-allergic","tag-allergy","tag-and","tag-celebrities","tag-cosmetic","tag-entertainment","tag-lawson","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nigella","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-refuses","tag-she","tag-sun","tag-surgery","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}