“Mirror Mirror“ star Julia Roberts admits that she tried Botox and vows not to do it again – for the sake of her kids.

“I tried the Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple months and it was not a cute look for me.”

“My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I’m feeling at the exact moment I’m feeling it. Like, that is critical.”

“As a mother it’s whatever works for the person,” Julia continued. “I don’t want to judge somebody who can’t turn their head or move their lips. I don’t know — if you want your chin on your forehead I’m not one to [judge]. If that’s going to bring you joy, I’m all for it.”

You definitely need your kids to see those “looks” we moms are so famous for…both good and bad!

Are you planning to see ‘Mirror Mirror‘ this weekend?

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Julia Roberts graces the April cover of Vanity Fair, and it’s a beautiful cover in my opinion. I really love Julia, even if she’s been making nothing but horrible movies lately. Hated ‘Valentine’s Day’, thought she was the wrong pick for ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, ‘Larry Crowne’ will always be remembered by me as the worst movie I’ve ever been forced to watch (was on a plane) and from what I’ve seen, ‘Mirror, Mirror’ is going to be awful too. She needs to go back to making amazing movies. Be pickier Julia, you can afford it.

In Vanity Fair’s April 2012 cover story, Oscar winner and Mirror, Mirror actress Julia Roberts tells contributing editor Sam Kashner how Meryl Streep’s daughter gave her precious insight into raising kids as a famous mom. According to Roberts, her children have yet to understand what it means that their mother is a celebrity—but she talked to Grace Gummer about her own realization. “Grace comes up and goes, ‘Gosh, it’s so sweet seeing all your kids on the set. It reminds me of when I was little, and I would go see my mom at work.’ I asked, ‘Were you happy?’ Suddenly, I thought, here is a source of information,” Roberts says. “I said, ‘How old were you when you realized your mom was Meryl Streep?’ She said, ‘I think I was probably nine when I put that all together.’ I said, ‘Were you cool with it?’ She said, ‘Yeah, it was fine. There was no trauma.’ So that was hopeful.”

Roberts recalls a time “on a crowded street, and somebody noticed me, and then another person noticed. Somebody said as we were walking past, ‘Oh, that’s Julia Roberts.’ We all just kind of kept going, and then Finn said, ‘Yeah, my mom’s Julia Robinson.’ That’s what gives you perspective. It could be Robinson, it could be Johnson, because it has nothing to do with me as a person.”

Roberts tells Kashner that there had been “a time when I was encouraged—as all young actresses are—you know, ‘You’ve got to keep going; you’ve got to get out there.’” Unfortunately for them, Roberts says, young actors nowadays don’t have the benefit of the same kind of experience that she had when just starting out: “The business is so different; you can never be that new girl that has that moment of ‘Where’d she come from?’” she says. “There’s the express elevator and there’s rehab. It’s so awful; nobody gets a fair trial-and-error period that everybody deserves and everybody needs.”

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Here’s the trailer for ‘Mirror, Mirror’, which happens to be the second Snow White movie in the works. This movie stars Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, Lily Collins as Snow White and Armie Hammer as Prince Charming.

This trailer gets a big ol’ yawn from me. It doesn’t pique my interests at all. In fact, I might even to go so far as to say it looks pretty terrible.

I think my biggest complaint is Julia Roberts. She’s totally WRONG for the part. And call me crazy, but her acting looks absolutely atrocious!

In all fairness, this does look like it’s going to be more of a family film, which would explain all the over-the-topness.

Want something to compare it to? Check out ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’! Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron look like they do it – the way it should be done!

Director Tarsem Singh has recently had the opportunity of working with some of Hollywood greatest actors, and he spoke about filming with Julia Roberts on his Snow White project and Mickey Rourke in the November 11 release flick, Immortals.

Tarsem says that even though the two actors play evil characters in their respective films, their approach to their roles were much different. While Julia had a hard time getting to that point of nastiness, Mickey would embrace it and go full force:

“No, actually [Julia Roberts] would play this person and completely come down. She would be really mean to Lily and I remember every time I turned around, she said, ‘That’s like being nasty to Bambi. You just can’t do it.’ So people deal with it differently.”

“A person like Mickey would be like, ‘I think Bambi steak would be good.’ Deal with different things differently. There’s just a certain amount of crawliness that comes into a guy like that who can’t see very well, he’s not wearing any glasses, he’s got a contact in one eye and you’ve given him a spear and he’s holding it next to a girl’s eye. Just like having a child on set, a very big child.”

Bambi steak?! My childhood just died a little.

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Julia Roberts and Hayden Panettiere attended the premiere of their new movie ‘Fireflies in the Garden’ last night in Los Angeles. They both look pretty good. Julia looks amazing, it’s hard to believe she’s 43!

Where’s Ryan Reynolds? He’s in the movie – but he wasn’t at the premiere – and he also didn’t surface at the press junket earlier this month. Seems strange he’s M.I.A. Maybe the movie sucks?

The movie was filmed back in 2007, and has sat on the shelf ever since (never a good sign). Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the wait Julia said: ‘As frustrating and agonizing and confusing as the years have been I feel it has all been worth the effort.’

The film tells the story of the Taylor family who are devastated by an accident that takes place on the day Lisa Taylor, the mother, is due to graduate from college, decades after leaving to raise her children.

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Here’s our first look at Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen and Lily Collins as Snow White! No, this isn’t the Snow White that Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron are currently working on. That movie will be darker. This movie looks more like a family film.

Julia Roberts: America’s Sweetheart embraces her inner bad girl in the upcoming still-untitled fantasy, which puts a dark twist on the beloved fairy tale. “Everybody knows Julia’s smile and the sound of her laugh, and she really brings that out and takes advantage of that and uses it in a different way for her version of the Evil Queen,” says Lily Collins (The Blind Side), who plays Snow White. “She used her magic and turned her smile and laugh into a creepy way.”

Lily Collins: In this scene, Snow White shows up uninvited to a party. Unaware that it’s a costume ball, the plucky heroine improvises a costume: “When she comes, she is just wearing white. Some dishes at the ball are being served on a swan. She basically throws the food out of the swan head and puts it on her head so she can mix with the crowd,” says director Tarsem Singh. Academy Award-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka did the costumes for the film.

The Seven Dwarves: “I wanted to make something exciting of these dwarfs,” says Singh, adding that these are not the dwarfs audiences are used to seeing. “These guys always travel around on stilts that make them like 9 feet tall. In this film they’re basically raiders that steal things from people that pass by their road.”

Snow White & The Queen: “We’d be shooting and she’s being extremely horrible to me, and once they yell cut, the first thing she says to me is, ‘Are you okay? I’m sorry, I hate being mean to you,’” Collins says of Roberts. “You forget that’s really Julia because she’s so good.”

Armie Hammer as Prince Andrew Alcott: Director Singh thinks The Social Network actor is uniquely qualified to play the royal role: “If you had to draw a prince, you’d probably draw Armie. He looks like a prince,” Singh says. “In real life he can be dark, he can be funny, he can be anything. I needed all that baggage to come with it. He was the perfect guy.”

Nathan Lane as Brighton: “Brighton is the Queen’s henchman, who she sends to kill Snow White. He really does nothing bad ever, so of course he is the wrong person to send to go do it,” says director Singh, whose film fantasy is expected to hit theaters next March.

Julia Roberts and Ryan Reynolds star in ‘Fireflies in the Garden’, a movie that believe it or not, actually hit the film festivals in 2008! So what took so long to get the movie released?

The film, written and directed by Dennis Lee, saw its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008. While it later hit theaters in most parts of the world, financial difficulties shelved its US distribution for nearly three years, until it was announced last week that it will finally hit theaters in select cities on October 14th.

And so, American theatergoers will at last get to see the story in which Julia Roberts, in mostly flashback footage, plays mother to a boy that will become Ryan Reynolds, who appears in the film’s present-day shots. A sweet woman and caring mom, she’s plagued by her abusive husband, played by Willem Dafoe, who leaves the boy on the side of the road one rainy day.

Seventeen years later, now fully grown and portrayed by Reynolds, he is heading home for a family reunion when a car accident kills Roberts, who is aged up with heavy makeup (at 43-years old, to Reynolds’ 34, it’s a necessity). From there, the story is a test of blood and forgiveness, trust and anger, with three generations of one family doing their best to co-exist in the wake of so much damage.

Looks like it could be pretty good, but I’m always apprehensive about movies that get shelved. Usually great movies aren’t shelved for three years before they’re released.