Jim Carrey, Leonardo DiCaprio and how the double standard of male aging may be over | CNN

It has become a popular internet pastime for people to speculate about what work a female celebrity has had done. Wrinkle-free, taut and glowing visages are analyzed by experts and non-experts alike, often resulting in a diagnosis that includes a facelift, blepharoplasty, fillers, or Botox. Yet in recent months, it is not only famous women whose faces have been studied so intently – it’s the men too. Case in point, the 51-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who made headlines at this year’s Academy Awards not for his work, but for his distinctly less-puffy complexion. “He picked the Gua Sha up,” wrote one fan on X. “Finally quit the sauce and discovered water. Also mustache is carrying 40% of this comeback,” said another, referring to DiCaprio’s new Tom Selleck-style mustache. Within hours, cosmetic surgeons were speculating over what he had or not had done, with the inevitable joke that the baseball cap and facemask he was recently seen wearing in public were to hide surgery. While the reaction to DiCaprio’s “glow-up” has been largely positive, the response to fellow actor Jim Carrey’s changed appearance at the César Awards a few weeks prior was not so kind.