Is Jared Kushner using Botox? Shocking before and after photos spark speculation on social media
As Jared Kushner made appearances alongside father-in-law, President Donald Trump, during his coronavirus press conferences, social media users raised questions about his peculiar appearance.
While Kushner has never been one with an expressive face, one user highlighted how his looks have changed over the years and questioned if he had undergone plastic surgery over the years. Taking to Twitter, the user posted four images of Kusher from different times in his life that showed just how different he looked from a few years ago.
"I saw an old pic of Jared Kushner and I’m now completely freaked out. What happened to his face?" they wrote in the caption.
In it, the younger Kushner can be seen sporting a fuller face and dimples that stood out. The Kushner of late, on the other hand, looked much gaunter with a face full of harsh angles, round eyes, and hollow cheeks.
Most users joked the change had to do with Kushner having lost his soul after he decided to work for the Trump administration. "It's interesting to see the side by side comparisons. It's like he's completely void of soul now. There doesn't appear to be any life in him," one user wrote.
"The happy light in his eyes is gone. And he's emaciated. Maybe marrying the daughter-wife wasn't such a good idea," a second commented.
"Standard villain makeover, you see it in the beginning of every comic book series," another said.
Some, however, floated the prospect that he had had surgery and botox injections. While such a claim is almost unprovable, it was pointed out that his brother, Josh, still had much more of a natural look.
Considering it has been rumored that wife Ivanka has had some of the injections herself, it would not be too far-fetched to theorize that he went along for the procedure as well. It's not just his wife who may have been an influence on him either.
There are reports that his mother-in-law, Melania Trump. has had cosmetic surgery as well, though it's something she has strenuously denied. "I’m against Botox. I’m against injections. I think it’s damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It’s all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does," she had said.
It's not just Kushner's face that's become the talk of social media either. Following an interview on HBO last year, his dewy and seemingly immobile skin was compared to the haunted doll in the 2016 horror movie 'The Boy.' Vanity Fair then wrote about his "very clear and moist skin" when he tried to shift the blame of the ventilator shortage from the federal government to the states during a recent press conference.
The outlet sarcastically speculated he had "a thin layer of flop sweat at all times" on his face that worked as some sort of a moisturizer.
There is also the genuine possibility that a combination of age and the stress of working in the White House have taken a toll on Kushner over the past four years. But since when is the simplest explanation ever the right one when it comes to the Trump administration?