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Check out Joan Van Ark latest look, rather frightening

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by Anonymousreply 243July 1, 2022 9:55 PM

Damn, her cameltoe is a full on clam slam.

by Anonymousreply 1June 3, 2022 7:13 PM

"Joan Van Ark spotted for the first time in over three years" - The Daily Fail

Nonsense. Valeeene was on a KNOTS LANDING reunion in STARS IN THE HOUSE, October 2020.

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by Anonymousreply 2June 3, 2022 7:20 PM

What - exactly - did she have done to her face?

by Anonymousreply 3June 3, 2022 7:35 PM

A good excuse to continue masking 😱😱😱

by Anonymousreply 4June 3, 2022 7:46 PM

Wow in not a good way. Also that white chalky makeup is not doing her any favors.

by Anonymousreply 5June 3, 2022 7:55 PM

THAT is a HUGE gap!

by Anonymousreply 6June 3, 2022 7:58 PM

her knees are wider that her thighs.

by Anonymousreply 7June 3, 2022 7:58 PM

She looks absolutely gorgeous! Good for her!

by Anonymousreply 8June 3, 2022 7:59 PM

R8 is Helen Keller.

by Anonymousreply 9June 3, 2022 8:00 PM

Wow. She is a life long runner and holy fuck- STOP RUNNING!!!!

And that filler shit around her upper cheek/eyes, truly looks like Rocky Dennis.

Kind of similar to the awesome Lee Grant.

I hope they both live to 100+. Decent chicks.

by Anonymousreply 10June 3, 2022 8:01 PM

Her makeup is bad because her eyesight is bad. I've seen this in older women before. I hope she wasn't driving herself.

by Anonymousreply 11June 3, 2022 8:02 PM

She looks like Jane Fonda's kid sister!

by Anonymousreply 12June 3, 2022 8:05 PM

She looks as if she is suffering from dementia. That isn't sarcasm, she truly does.

by Anonymousreply 13June 3, 2022 8:06 PM

78, she's still better looking than Madge.

by Anonymousreply 14June 3, 2022 8:07 PM

Poor Val.

by Anonymousreply 15June 3, 2022 8:08 PM

Sometimes you just wanna hug someone close and gently break their neck.

by Anonymousreply 16June 3, 2022 8:08 PM

Those ears though...

by Anonymousreply 17June 3, 2022 8:09 PM

Family Guy on Joan Van Ark

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by Anonymousreply 18June 3, 2022 8:10 PM

Hello boys and ghouls! It's me, The Crypt Keeper

by Anonymousreply 19June 3, 2022 8:12 PM

This is a public service announcement for the DataLoungers who think botox and filler will age well

by Anonymousreply 20June 3, 2022 8:13 PM

I think she looks GREAT!

by Anonymousreply 21June 3, 2022 8:15 PM

Leave the poor woman alone. She's done enough damage to herself and doesn't need us doing anymore.

by Anonymousreply 22June 3, 2022 8:15 PM

She looks totally normal for being seventy-eight.

by Anonymousreply 23June 3, 2022 8:17 PM

...and you wonder why Joan Van Ark doesn't go out more frequently.

by Anonymousreply 24June 3, 2022 8:18 PM

She looks ill. Like really ill.

by Anonymousreply 25June 3, 2022 8:21 PM

I think she tremendous

by Anonymousreply 26June 3, 2022 8:22 PM

She does go out regularly. The Daily Mail simply means this is the first time in three years someone bothered to snap her.

by Anonymousreply 27June 3, 2022 8:23 PM

She guest judged on Drag Race, Hunty.

by Anonymousreply 28June 3, 2022 8:27 PM

She was very pretty ca. 1970.

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by Anonymousreply 29June 3, 2022 8:49 PM

What is the dark band of skin at her hairline?

by Anonymousreply 30June 3, 2022 8:58 PM

Oh, Sweetpea!

by Anonymousreply 31June 3, 2022 9:06 PM

@r29, "She was very pretty ca. 1970. "

So was I 🙄

by Anonymousreply 32June 3, 2022 9:15 PM

[quote]So was I 🙄—ElderGay

Pics please.

by Anonymousreply 33June 3, 2022 9:16 PM

This is what she looked like 8 years ago. What do you think she should look like now?

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by Anonymousreply 34June 3, 2022 9:19 PM

Why did she and the other Knots Landing broads get all of this plastic surgery? It does not make them look younger. It does not make them look more attractive and it does not get them more acting parts.

by Anonymousreply 35June 3, 2022 9:21 PM

@r33, "Pics please. "

Well, ok... 🙄

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by Anonymousreply 36June 3, 2022 9:23 PM

R23 = 18 years old.

She looks severely anemic for one thing. And if you think she looks 'normal' for 78, tell that to Donna Mills, who is 81.

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by Anonymousreply 37June 3, 2022 9:30 PM

Joan is what a normal eighty year old looks like.

Donna is not representative of what a normal eighty year old looks like.

by Anonymousreply 38June 3, 2022 9:33 PM

Wow, 9 minutes into the reunion video at R2, Ted Shackelford looks about 110. Makes Joan -- who's conveniently the furthest away from her computer -- look 60.

by Anonymousreply 39June 3, 2022 9:34 PM

She's had far too much plastic surgery over the years and is too thin. As someone else already noted, she has been a big running enthusiast for entire adult life practically.

She already had started with the plastic surgery before that 1970 pic above. Here she is with her original face.

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by Anonymousreply 40June 3, 2022 9:38 PM

If I have silver skin, skeletal legs, and a huge bulge on the side of my face at 80, please kill me. She’s looked like a freak for at least a couple decades…it’s got nothing to do with being 80.

by Anonymousreply 41June 3, 2022 9:38 PM

Jokes aside (poor Val!) she looks miserable. These are not the clothes of an 80-year-old. She must think she still is still a hot cougar.

by Anonymousreply 42June 3, 2022 9:43 PM

That's the thing R41. Makes one wonder if she has some sort of body dismorphic disorder (even before the synthetic fillers), or...is she COLORBLIND?

by Anonymousreply 43June 3, 2022 9:49 PM

Fillers? Yes she has some and LOTS of botox - but it's that terrible nose job and burn victim chemical peels that destroyed her face. Of course she has an eating disorder. We can see her skeleton through her spandex. No one has cancer for 40 years!

by Anonymousreply 44June 3, 2022 10:03 PM

Are you fuckers blind? What is that growth and accompanying indentation on the side of her head (viewers' right, her left unless the photo was reversed)?

by Anonymousreply 45June 3, 2022 10:20 PM

Up close, 3 years ago at an convention.

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by Anonymousreply 46June 3, 2022 10:28 PM

The word love is visible under her hair in the picture at our 46. Is that darkness around her hairline tattooed on to create some kind of definition?

Admittedly I’ve never spent a lot of time studying pictures of John Van Ark, but I’m even noticing in the older pictures from Knots Landing, she was using brown make up to to frame her face around the edges.

The lump is super weird and scary. She’s obviously quite ill. Somehow.

by Anonymousreply 47June 3, 2022 10:46 PM

Weird lump— not word love ^

That’s what happens when I voice to text.

by Anonymousreply 48June 3, 2022 10:47 PM

What does she wanna weigh, zero?

by Anonymousreply 49June 3, 2022 10:49 PM

I don't care if she shaves her head and grows a tail. That's Valene Ewing, and she a fucking goddess.

by Anonymousreply 50June 3, 2022 10:58 PM

Hopefully the twins and their respective families will help Val out since she's sick. I'm sure they're quite loyal to their mother what for the ordeal they suffered as infants. Thankfully I was there to help.

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by Anonymousreply 51June 3, 2022 11:05 PM

Numerous plastic surgeries do not age well. Very few people manage to look normal as they enter their senior years after having had more than one of two such surgeries. I would rather look like a normal aging person my age than look like an space alien trying to look younger.

by Anonymousreply 52June 3, 2022 11:10 PM

People hate Paltrow, but she's letting age do its thing. I like her.

Who is Valeen?

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by Anonymousreply 53June 3, 2022 11:15 PM

She mostly looks like....a 78 year old woman.

Her hair should be shorter and her makeup less white, which would de-emphasize her bad work.

by Anonymousreply 54June 3, 2022 11:22 PM

R45, I thought it's only me but yeah, what is that thing? I thought it just shadows maybe but could it be actually cheek filler that's gone astray?

by Anonymousreply 55June 3, 2022 11:33 PM

Looks like anorexia which will have caused her to get osteoporosis over the years.

by Anonymousreply 56June 3, 2022 11:35 PM

honestly, i just hope i make it to 78

by Anonymousreply 57June 3, 2022 11:40 PM

Plastic surgery mishap.

There really needs to be a horror movie about a reclusive plastic surgery mistake monster.

by Anonymousreply 58June 3, 2022 11:47 PM

Cutting edge technology means she is probably growing a new nose or fresh skin on the side of her head for future transplant.

Skinny bitch is still married after 56 years and can squat down to pick up dropped coins - she's doing alright!

by Anonymousreply 59June 4, 2022 12:09 AM

Jesus Christ, she looks like the walking dead.

by Anonymousreply 60June 4, 2022 12:29 AM

It appears the lump is covered in beige bandaging. I agree it might be a filler or plastic surgery mishap.

by Anonymousreply 61June 4, 2022 12:37 AM

It's called glamor!

by Anonymousreply 62June 4, 2022 12:39 AM

She looks like ET.

by Anonymousreply 63June 4, 2022 12:43 AM

Jesus! Joan has NOT been in isolation for three years! In fact, she, Donna and Michele had a panel discussion and a meet and greet for fans in Palm Springs just a few months ago.

I know because I was there and Joan didn't sound or look any different than she had in years, certainly not ill.

That "lump" appears to be a clump of hair that came loose from her ponytail. But since this is Datalounge, ion course the immediate assumption is that she's Quasimodo.

by Anonymousreply 64June 4, 2022 12:44 AM

She looks like a freak, lump or not. Figures they'd love her in Palm Springs.

by Anonymousreply 65June 4, 2022 12:48 AM

Sadly like all elder folks she's loosing condition. You can see it in Her Maj the Queen.

by Anonymousreply 66June 4, 2022 12:59 AM

In the B&W pic, before all the plastic surgery, she looks like Chloe Sevigny.

by Anonymousreply 67June 4, 2022 1:06 AM

Some heavy long bangs on her forehead and around her jaws would really help!

by Anonymousreply 68June 4, 2022 1:11 AM

A Knot has Landed on the side of her head.

by Anonymousreply 69June 4, 2022 1:11 AM

I just looked at the photos again and there is definitely a large lozenge-shaped flesh colored bandage on her right temple covering something bulbous underneath.

by Anonymousreply 70June 4, 2022 1:13 AM

Actually, her left temple.

by Anonymousreply 71June 4, 2022 1:14 AM

R64 is the REAL star of Knots Landing- Stacy Galina.

by Anonymousreply 72June 4, 2022 1:18 AM

I am not going to say anything mean or nasty about this poor woman, but I will say something about someone who is young enough to take the criticism..... Joan is looking very Celine Dionish in the photos.

by Anonymousreply 73June 4, 2022 3:56 AM

She looks like an old lady version of Zira in Planet of the Apes.

by Anonymousreply 74June 4, 2022 4:55 AM

I think that Joan's looks haven't changed a bit since we worked on our TV show together. What are you talking about!?

by Anonymousreply 75June 4, 2022 6:51 AM

Looks like the aftermath of a bad facelift. Also, the woman is 78.

by Anonymousreply 76June 4, 2022 6:53 AM

Those boots look like the kind you go fly fishing in, her hair is 3 different shades of blonde and that purse looks like it weighs 30 lbs.

by Anonymousreply 77June 4, 2022 7:45 AM

She looks like a crazy homeless lady.

by Anonymousreply 78June 4, 2022 8:35 AM

iT'S Called "aging", Rose.

Look into it, darling.

by Anonymousreply 79June 4, 2022 8:47 AM

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by Anonymousreply 80June 4, 2022 9:06 AM

Long COVID?

by Anonymousreply 81June 4, 2022 9:11 AM

No idea who she is, but I imagine she has a house filled with talismans and totems woven from twigs and branches and adorned with feathers and crystals.

by Anonymousreply 82June 4, 2022 10:00 AM

R82 Or all white / minimalist. Plus, a fridge full of bottled water and individually cleaned and pressed lettuce leaves.

by Anonymousreply 83June 4, 2022 1:24 PM

Who told her that leggings look good on 78yo legs?

That woman needs a make-over from an individual she can trust. Even if the face lift cannot be reversed there is still a lot that can be done. Different shade for the hair, new make up for sure, then some sporty, age appropriate clothes. It's not that difficult to bring back some normalcy.

by Anonymousreply 84June 4, 2022 3:08 PM

That is a cruel article, even for Daily Mail.

by Anonymousreply 85June 4, 2022 3:20 PM

She has always worn that white 1960's circus trapeze artist make-up.

by Anonymousreply 86June 4, 2022 3:33 PM

She is way too old to be dressing like a teenager.

by Anonymousreply 87June 4, 2022 3:34 PM

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by Anonymousreply 88June 4, 2022 3:39 PM

I may be fat but at least I don't look like the Cryptkeeper!

by Anonymousreply 89June 4, 2022 3:59 PM

I remember standing behind a woman who dressed like her in line somewhere. The blonde hair and youthful clothing had me thinking it was some 20-year old. When she finally turned around and I saw it was an 80-year old woman I let out an audible gasp to which made her self-conscious that she covered her face and turned back around. Women that age should not be dressing in overly youthful clothing.

by Anonymousreply 90June 4, 2022 4:06 PM

Who here keeps saying she looks like a normal 78-year old woman? I live on the Upper East Side and see women who look like JVA occasionally, it’s still not normal. There are plenty of old ladies in my building and none of them look like this. Interestingly, quite a few oldies (men, too!) have stopped dyeing their hair since the pandemic.

Ms. VanArk seems to have some mental issues or disorder at work.

by Anonymousreply 91June 4, 2022 4:18 PM

The lump thing- WHAT is that? Could she have fallen?

Its like it goes down to her under eye area.

If she could just get that filler removed from the undereye/upper cheek area it would be a massive improvement.

How do doctors/plastic surgeons live with themselves?

by Anonymousreply 92June 4, 2022 4:21 PM

I think it's pretty easy to dissolve fillers with an injection of Kenalog (sp?)

by Anonymousreply 93June 4, 2022 4:25 PM

In this clip from 2019 both Donna Mills and Michele Lee look great, but Joan....

Poor Val

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by Anonymousreply 94June 4, 2022 4:25 PM

She may have undergone a Mohs procedure (basal cell cancer) or perhaps had a squamous cell lesion removed, and the lump may be wound packing.

by Anonymousreply 95June 4, 2022 4:28 PM

If it’s a huge lump surely wearing her hair down would help to disguise it.

by Anonymousreply 96June 4, 2022 4:33 PM

Women really let themselves go. Prolly a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 97June 4, 2022 4:35 PM

Maybe that lump is some sort of fancy coin purse. She was, after all, feeding a parking meter.

by Anonymousreply 98June 4, 2022 4:36 PM

Bea Arthur starred in a TV movie in the '80s, My First Love, as a senior citizen reconnecting with her high school boyfriend. Joan played the hot young rival for his affection and already looked 98 years old. The effect was that of a chainsmoker who'd spent her entire life starving herself in the sun. Now the sun melts all the man-made parts of her face.

by Anonymousreply 99June 4, 2022 4:37 PM

R94 Donna and Michele seem pretty laid-back while Joan appears to be fussing with her appearance the whole time.

by Anonymousreply 100June 4, 2022 4:39 PM

R95- You may be right. And with her coloring and being Atlantic/runner, its definitely a strong possibility.

She strikes me as someone who probably wasn't a big sunblock user, or became one after damage was already done..

by Anonymousreply 101June 4, 2022 4:39 PM

She has a fairly good figure, although too thin. Why do people think they look better thinner?

by Anonymousreply 102June 4, 2022 4:40 PM

Atlantic? Athletic^^^^

by Anonymousreply 103June 4, 2022 4:40 PM

[quote] She strikes me as someone who probably wasn't a big sunblock user, or became one after damage was already done..

It was all those Van Patten family backyard barbecues.

by Anonymousreply 104June 4, 2022 4:44 PM

I'm not saying she looks 80 and I'm not saying she doesn't. What I am saying is that SHE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING FREAK OF NATURE!

by Anonymousreply 105June 4, 2022 4:46 PM

[quote]Notoriously private Knots Landing star Joan Van Ark, 78, is spotted running errands

Running errands, or gathering souls?

by Anonymousreply 106June 4, 2022 4:47 PM

It’ll never sell, r58.

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by Anonymousreply 107June 4, 2022 4:51 PM

Not a big sunblock user? Joan van Ark was young in the '60s and '70s. I guarantee you she was putting on suntan oil and using those reflectors to absorb as many UV rays as possible.

by Anonymousreply 108June 4, 2022 4:57 PM

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!!!!!!

I just saw her green-grey, moldy, dirty, wrinkly, HORRENDOUS nightmarish neck!!! OMG! What the everloving fuck is that?? Why is it that color? I was eating, for God's sake!!!

by Anonymousreply 109June 4, 2022 5:00 PM

This is how you age gracefully, bitches!

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by Anonymousreply 110June 4, 2022 5:03 PM

She had a little procedure to refresh her good looks but the facial rejuvenation had complications and the complications just had complications. It's nothing, really.

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by Anonymousreply 111June 4, 2022 5:16 PM

35.37 minutes JVA enters in a jungle print bikini.

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by Anonymousreply 112June 4, 2022 9:44 PM

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by Anonymousreply 113June 4, 2022 10:01 PM

Her lips are very thin and lizard-like.

by Anonymousreply 114June 4, 2022 10:03 PM

That ghostly white makeup with the brown shading makeup isn't doing her any favors.

Re her awful plastic surgery and/or peels, lasers, fillers etc, it's fascinating how so many celebrities manage to find the world's worst plastic surgeons and dermatologists.

by Anonymousreply 115June 4, 2022 10:04 PM

R115, I'm guessing that the good plastic surgeons / derms don't want to do what certain clients ask for.

Look at Madonna. She can definitely source out and afford the more competent plastic surgeons. I'm guessing she's asking for stuff that a reputable surgeon would advise against. So, she has to go and find a surgeon who will just take her money and do what she asks.

by Anonymousreply 116June 4, 2022 10:10 PM

Don’t put it past the DM to tinker with these photos, btw. She doesn’t look good but I bet the DM upped the contrast so that her face is two-toned and her neck is grey.

by Anonymousreply 117June 4, 2022 10:36 PM

There was one surgeon to the stars- can't remember his name now, that would do whatever you wanted. My sister in law went to him for multiple crazy things, including adding dimples and having her lower lip sewn down- this was before lip injections.

by Anonymousreply 118June 5, 2022 12:16 AM

[quote]Don’t put it past the DM to tinker with these photos, btw. She doesn’t look good but I bet the DM upped the contrast so that her face is two-toned and her neck is grey.

Her face has been like that since at least 2007!

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by Anonymousreply 119June 5, 2022 1:50 AM

What's up with the white / ashen cast, though? All that makeup and no lipstick, either.

by Anonymousreply 120June 5, 2022 2:05 AM

Is is the Kabuki look she's going for?

by Anonymousreply 121June 5, 2022 2:07 AM

Joan looks beautiful and 30 years younger exclaims Melanie Griffith! It's important to stay thin and keep things tight.

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by Anonymousreply 122June 5, 2022 2:25 AM

What’s with her cheeks under her eyes? Does she have saucer implants?

by Anonymousreply 123June 5, 2022 2:53 AM

She looks like she's had a craniotomy.

by Anonymousreply 124June 5, 2022 2:57 AM

Mel looks like Pam Anderson at R122. Her neck doesn’t match, though.

by Anonymousreply 125June 5, 2022 3:12 AM

My dermatologist has long had a theory about how Joan Van Ark became this disfigured burned face as you can see in R119. He has not treated her but he thinks that she had a phenol facial peel. It is the most aggressive type of peel and is normally only used drop-wise on the radial lines women get around the mouth (especially sun-happy smokers like Aunt Magda). It burns the skin so extensively that wherever phenol has touched your skin, you're only left with scar tissue that will never be wrinkled again and no melanocytes which means your as white as the late years Michael Jackson and you absolutely cannot tolerate the sun. So she probably went to a quack who promised her that she would never ever have a wrinkle again (true) but without telling her it makes you look like you tried to immolate yourself with gasoline. Kind of like Freddy Krueger.

My dermatologist told me he had already had patients that had a phenol peel all over their face and the women had to sleep with a silicon mask all night every night forever to try to mitigate their self-immolated look. He also pointed out that usually with these women, the lip is no longer defined as the scar tissue and the lip mucous membrane are a continuum of each other. Which is pretty much what we have on Joan Van Ark. Yikes!

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by Anonymousreply 126June 5, 2022 1:08 PM

Connie's not looking too great either, and she looks like she's had no work done.

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by Anonymousreply 127June 5, 2022 1:16 PM

R127- Wow- However Connie didn't even try to have a good angle or any lighting at all! So in essence, she made herself look far worse.

(Fuck, even for my Zoom meetings I know where to place the camera and have a goddamn ring light at almost 44)

Connie gives zero fucks and good for her!

by Anonymousreply 128June 5, 2022 1:36 PM

R126- That is pretty brilliant. It really nails it-

It looks like this look took over in 2008/2009- Phenol sounds so 1970's!

Check this shit out. Its this toner I have used that stars like. I tried ONLY the phenol free one, but the original still exists.

Linked is the poisonous Joan Van Ark version.

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by Anonymousreply 129June 5, 2022 1:38 PM

I remember some old broad, I think Debbie Reynolds, saying- You get two facelifts. You have to choose when to have them. I think it was pretty good advice.

by Anonymousreply 130June 5, 2022 2:07 PM

Joan Van Arkofthecovenant.

by Anonymousreply 131June 5, 2022 2:27 PM

Joan is an avid jogger. She used to do laps around the Lorimar commissary at lunch time. She tried to get Victoria Principal to join her, but she refused. Jane Wyman would give her side eye and make derogatory comments about her to Steve Kanaly.

by Anonymousreply 132June 5, 2022 2:31 PM

I had never heard of My First Love, so I went looking for photos of Joan in it. Instead, I found a photo of Bea wearing some of her Golden Girls wardrobe in the movie!

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by Anonymousreply 133June 5, 2022 2:35 PM

She needs to eat a hotdog

by Anonymousreply 134June 5, 2022 2:35 PM

R91, I often see very wealthy women look like this. They are skinny to the point of looking like a corpse, eat a piece of lettuce at the restaurant, while their husbands are old and fat

by Anonymousreply 135June 5, 2022 2:37 PM

R133, not only does she do some wardrobe recycling, one of her best friends is played by Anne Francis, who was Dorothy's ultra-competitive prankster friend Trudy.

by Anonymousreply 136June 5, 2022 2:40 PM

She can't possibly make herself younger or prettier, but the one thing Joan can do is make herself thinner.

by Anonymousreply 137June 5, 2022 2:40 PM

Looking at photos of Joan, you can see that, over the years, her makeup has stayed the same, with the same skintone lip color, dark foundation on the forehead at the hair line, and light foundation in the center nose and mouth area. It's the application that has gotten worse and worse. Honestly, I think she started doing all this with her makeup in the 1970s. Now she's just blind as a bat and can't apply it properly.

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by Anonymousreply 138June 5, 2022 2:46 PM

The more I look at old photos of her, the more I think she has never been able to do her own makeup.

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by Anonymousreply 139June 5, 2022 2:47 PM

[quote]That’s what happens when I voice to text.

The eldergays are very confused right now

by Anonymousreply 140June 5, 2022 3:00 PM

If it’s a vision thing, why not wear glasses?

by Anonymousreply 141June 5, 2022 3:02 PM

[quote]She is way too old to be dressing like a teenager.

Welcome to LA!

by Anonymousreply 142June 5, 2022 3:03 PM

[quote]Who is Valeen?

You must leave this place - it is not safe for you here!

by Anonymousreply 143June 5, 2022 3:03 PM

You can't do your makeup and wear glasses at the same time. Maybe you could do your lips, but that would be about it.

by Anonymousreply 144June 5, 2022 3:04 PM

Why is she so skinny? I see many elderly people like this, skinny as fuck.

by Anonymousreply 145June 5, 2022 3:05 PM

Your dermatologist has enough time in his day to gossip with you about Joan Van Ark's face?

by Anonymousreply 146June 5, 2022 3:07 PM

You lose muscle mass as you age, and she looks as if she's been anorexic for decades too.

by Anonymousreply 147June 5, 2022 3:08 PM

R126 Sounds exactly like what she did!

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by Anonymousreply 148June 5, 2022 3:28 PM

[quote] Donna is not representative of what a normal eighty year old looks like.

Donna Mills was NEVER representative of the normal, American woman. Why would she be that now at 81?

Joan looks her age (finally). I'd love to see what some of you eldergays look like who are 10-20 years younger. LOL. She was gorgeous in her youth, but that was 35-50 years ago. She looks better than Bridget Bardot.

by Anonymousreply 149June 5, 2022 3:38 PM

R148 and R146- I have never seen a woman with that central face purple-ness that she has. Her makeup doesn't even cover it-

It doesn't look like bruising but all of the veins in her face..

Its crazy.

by Anonymousreply 150June 5, 2022 3:40 PM

Actually R146, since you had to ask, I fuck my dermatologist so yes, we have a lot of time to talk of Joan Van Ark or Catherine Deneuve or mostly French stars, since we're French. That's how we came to discuss Joan Van Ark or that I've also learned that Catherine Deneuve got part of her facial nerve cut off during a facelift and they had to postpone the release of her film by almost a year for her to be able to promote the film (I think it was Place Vendôme 99-ish). And since this is a full disclosure, I'm also the guy that busted Isabelle Adjani in a waiting room near Lyon waiting to see the plastic surgeon, Franck Trepsat.

by Anonymousreply 151June 5, 2022 4:25 PM

It's a switch. One day it's flipped and you're old.

by Anonymousreply 152June 5, 2022 4:31 PM

Just how much of a whore does one have to be to spread ass flaps for his dematologist. I'm not mad at you for trading ass for Tretinoin, but gurl.

by Anonymousreply 153June 5, 2022 4:32 PM

Maybe he's actually hot for the dermatologist? It doesn't have to be transactional.

by Anonymousreply 154June 5, 2022 4:35 PM

Did Joan experience Ted's legendary third leg?

by Anonymousreply 155June 5, 2022 4:38 PM

[quote]Maybe he's actually hot for the dermatologist? It doesn't have to be transactional.

No one is ever hot for their dermatologist. He's trading bussy for Botox. R126 is Gloria Wandrous and we all know what Gloria was.

by Anonymousreply 156June 5, 2022 4:52 PM

[quote] No one is ever hot for their dermatologist.

Oh, no?

by Anonymousreply 157June 5, 2022 5:02 PM

[quote] Did Joan experience Ted's legendary third leg?

Joan didn't. But I'd say Hunt Block and Michael Sabatino did.

by Anonymousreply 158June 5, 2022 10:35 PM

I have no idea who this woman is but she looks absolutely terrifying.

by Anonymousreply 159June 6, 2022 12:11 AM

R159, she was one of the leads in a prime time soap that ran from 1979-1993. She also did a lot of episodic tv.

by Anonymousreply 160June 6, 2022 12:23 AM

Was she the inspiration for Death Becomes Her?

by Anonymousreply 161June 6, 2022 12:44 AM

SJP will looklike that in 10 years, or could be 5 years

by Anonymousreply 162June 6, 2022 12:49 AM

She looks like Dr. Michael Morbius!

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by Anonymousreply 163June 6, 2022 1:00 AM

Joan went to Yale drama and is a Tony nominated actor with numerous prestige Broadway credits, so I have to say I'm surprised that a serious actress like her would feel the need to resort to plastic surgery, etc and not be comfortable playing roles for women her age like Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave and Judy Dench.

by Anonymousreply 164June 6, 2022 1:35 AM

Does she even get offered work anymore?

by Anonymousreply 165June 6, 2022 1:37 AM

LaLah, 164. I've never heard of seen Joan Van Ark in my life! Is she the next Judi Dench or Maggie Smith?

She looks more like a Judy Smith to me.

by Anonymousreply 166June 6, 2022 1:38 AM

I'd say she was the best actress on Knots. You can tell she gave her all in defining who Valene was. She's very method, a very actressy actress.

by Anonymousreply 167June 6, 2022 2:29 AM

Compared to how Michelle Lee has turned out, Joan looks like Jane Fonda.

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by Anonymousreply 168June 6, 2022 2:44 AM

Years ago a friend told me that their friend (who I never met) worked in the make-up dept. for a year or two on Knots Landing. All he said was that the drama doing the ladies' makeup was more over the top than anything you saw on the show. I always assumed he was talking primarily about Joan. I like Joan (as much as anyone can like an actor they've never met), and I do think she is a talented actress, but she always struck me as flighty, neurotic and horrifically insecure about her looks. The woman was beautiful, but that doesn't always mitigate a person's view of themselves and I imagine being in Hollywood didn't exactly allay her fears. These were B-actresses in their late 30s to early 40s at a time when 30 was old for a woman in the industry. Whoever said she suffered from body dysmorphia was probably right. It's sad, really.

by Anonymousreply 169June 6, 2022 1:03 PM

Google Joan van Ark colloidal silver.

by Anonymousreply 170June 6, 2022 1:07 PM

Nosferatu joined a gym.

by Anonymousreply 171June 6, 2022 1:37 PM

Joan was bever beautiful. Attractive, yes.

by Anonymousreply 172June 6, 2022 5:13 PM

R169 is right- I heard that the ladies were vicious about LIGHTING and MAKE UP. Not nasty, but utterly neurotic and perfectionists.

I think Donna Mills confirmed this- Donna knew EXACTLY what she needed to look her best and did her own make up.

by Anonymousreply 173June 6, 2022 6:41 PM

JVA definitely has body dysmorphia.

In the past, JVA likely looked at herself and was extremely insecure, even when she was younger and attractive, that's when the plastic surgeries, fillers and her downward spiral started. JVA must also starve herself to remain so skinny.

Does she now look in the mirror and think she's perfect? As for the horrific makeup, JVA likely got stuck in an era where she thought her makeup etc was great and she stuck with it. Scary.

Most of these people need therapy, not getting their faces and bodies mangled.

by Anonymousreply 174June 7, 2022 10:46 PM

Joan was probably insecure about her looks, and then had to compete with knockouts like Donna Mills, Lisa Hartman, Kim Lankford, Nic Sheridan, and and Claudia Lonow. Any woman would feel insecure around them.

by Anonymousreply 175June 7, 2022 10:49 PM

I wish those cunt photographers would just leave her in peace.

That being said, if I had an enormous grown on the side of my head, I'd wear an Hermes scarf.

by Anonymousreply 176June 7, 2022 10:51 PM

Actually, it was my stunning beauty and charisma that sent old Joan right over the edge!

by Anonymousreply 177June 7, 2022 10:52 PM

She was obviously dead and buried for three years and then dug up.

by Anonymousreply 178June 7, 2022 11:18 PM

[quote] Joan was probably insecure about her looks, and then had to compete with knockouts like Donna Mills, Lisa Hartman, Kim Lankford, Nic Sheridan, and Claudia Lonow.

And what am I, chopper liver?!

by Anonymousreply 179June 7, 2022 11:27 PM

No Michelle, but unfortunately you have no nose left.

by Anonymousreply 180June 7, 2022 11:52 PM

Did she forget to hydrate?

by Anonymousreply 181June 7, 2022 11:56 PM

Those purple fingers too. They’re PURPLE.

This woman looks deathly ill.

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by Anonymousreply 182June 8, 2022 12:01 AM

[quote] Joan is an avid jogger. She used to do laps around the Lorimar commissary at lunch time. She tried to get Victoria Principal to join her, but she refused.

I think that was a wise decision by Victoria. She'd end up with two black eyes from those giant bazoomas!

by Anonymousreply 183June 8, 2022 12:03 AM

She’s hardly a recluse. She appeared with Michele and Donna at Oscar’s in Palm Springs a few months ago. I know she’s wrecked her face, but her persona is so likable in interviews. She is bawdy and very self deprecating. You can tell she’s a kook but a fun one. I find her very endearing.

by Anonymousreply 184June 8, 2022 12:24 AM

Thats how all old LA white women look

by Anonymousreply 185June 8, 2022 12:29 AM

R180 - Michele was modeled on a classic...

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by Anonymousreply 186June 8, 2022 12:41 AM

Val's 80s mullet would nicely cover up that lump!

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by Anonymousreply 187June 8, 2022 1:02 AM

Michelle Lee has the Anne Miller, ZSA ZSA Gabor nose job. Like a tiny pekingese. Just terrible proportions to the face. Sissy Spacek, I love her. But wow. You can't fix that kind of damage.

Yes you can add grafts and bone from the rib, but that's more for reconstructing caved in noses. You can't make a miniscule nose much larger.

Van Ark has an obvious nose job too - it's far too thin. Like every other feature on her face and body. I suspect she likes the way she looks. What she doesn't like is being OLD.

by Anonymousreply 188June 8, 2022 1:06 AM

R184 Yes, she does seem very nice and fun.

by Anonymousreply 189June 8, 2022 1:13 AM

R187 - Wasn't that when Val developed a disassociative disorder and thought she was Bonnie Tyler?

by Anonymousreply 190June 8, 2022 1:31 AM

Maybe Suzanne can offer Joan some tips for how to care for one's skin and how to tastefully act like a woman in her 70s.

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by Anonymousreply 191June 8, 2022 1:42 AM

Suzanne also looks like reptilian these days. Click to enlarge.

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by Anonymousreply 192June 8, 2022 1:46 AM

More of the horror that is Suzanne

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by Anonymousreply 193June 8, 2022 1:47 AM

I didn’t notice her hands. That’s pretty scary. What would cause that?

by Anonymousreply 194June 8, 2022 1:48 AM

She's finally growing into her plastic surgery!

by Anonymousreply 195June 8, 2022 1:52 AM

Purple hands usually come from gardening. Or blood thinners. Some cancer treatments.

Suzanne Somers has coarser skin and features because she is 100% natural. She has undergone no cosmetic procedures or surgery. ZERO. If anything, Suzanne has found the fountain of youth. She's a miracle of a woman. Her decision to dedicate her life to science and medicine is Broadway, Film and TV's loss. She'll always have her Oscar and Tony awards. The EGOT she can do without.

by Anonymousreply 196June 8, 2022 1:57 AM

Joan has the best looking home in the video at R2.

by Anonymousreply 197June 8, 2022 1:58 AM

Welcome to DL, Joyce!

by Anonymousreply 198June 8, 2022 2:00 AM

[quote] Purple hands usually come from gardening.

Maybe Joan works on a beet farm! Val totally would have done that in one of her amnesia phases.

by Anonymousreply 199June 8, 2022 2:31 AM

Joan's hair looks awful in this scene from Laura's funeral episode. What was her stylist thinking?

by Anonymousreply 200June 8, 2022 2:36 AM

Zip it Charlene. You're a dwarf.

by Anonymousreply 201June 8, 2022 2:38 AM

How come Miss Ellie never guested on Knots? Was BBG above appearing on the lesser Knots? I think only Larry, Charlene, Patrick, and Mary Crosby crossed over.

by Anonymousreply 202June 8, 2022 2:42 AM

That BBG never shared a scene with Julie Harris is criminal. I can imagine an angry Lillimae giving Miss Ellie an earful about the way Ellie's no-account son broke Val's heart.

by Anonymousreply 203June 8, 2022 6:28 AM

My grandmother was exhumed after 20 years and looked better

by Anonymousreply 204June 8, 2022 7:41 AM

JVA referred to Barbara Bel Geddes as her acting mentor.

by Anonymousreply 205June 8, 2022 8:08 AM

R150 the dark area makes her look like Homer Simpson. Is there any explanation?

by Anonymousreply 206June 8, 2022 9:04 AM

R205- Are you sure about that? I recall her frequently saying that about Julie Harris, who reportedly got Joan into Yale Drama as an aspiring actor.

by Anonymousreply 207June 8, 2022 12:41 PM

Joan's acting mentor was Connie McCashin.

by Anonymousreply 208June 8, 2022 1:25 PM

R44 is correct. She basically has Michael Jackson Syndrome. A gawd-awful nose job (or several) to the point where she's had to plaster her face in pancake makeup to cover the prosthetic nose. Similar to Ann Miller.

And yes, she fills those cheeks with rubber because she eats only grass clippings.

by Anonymousreply 209June 8, 2022 3:53 PM

Connie was THE go-to on how to perform the perfectly timed eyeroll.

by Anonymousreply 210June 8, 2022 11:13 PM

Donna Mills was gorgeous back then.

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by Anonymousreply 211June 8, 2022 11:33 PM

Michele Lee should revive her singing career.

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by Anonymousreply 212June 9, 2022 12:57 AM

Michelle and Luci. Cutting up. Quite a while ago, but they're good.

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by Anonymousreply 213June 9, 2022 1:34 AM

I think the headline is wrong. I'm pretty sure this is Joan of Arc after being burnt with the steak.

by Anonymousreply 214June 9, 2022 1:47 AM

Ruth's Chris or Outback, R214?

by Anonymousreply 215June 9, 2022 1:49 AM

Remember when Constance M. used to post here regularly and she’d always be eating something?

by Anonymousreply 216June 9, 2022 1:57 AM

R211 - So was her TV brother, Don Murray.

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by Anonymousreply 217June 9, 2022 12:23 PM

Look at me, Joan.

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by Anonymousreply 218June 14, 2022 11:26 PM

My ark is holding up better than that.

by Anonymousreply 219June 14, 2022 11:30 PM

Donna Mills is 81. She can actually pull off that photo shoot R218 posted and not look ridiculous. Pretty amazing.

by Anonymousreply 220June 14, 2022 11:40 PM

She looks like she could afford to lose a few.

by Anonymousreply 221June 14, 2022 11:58 PM

Donna Mills looks incredible for 81. And she was a smoker for decades!

by Anonymousreply 222June 15, 2022 12:36 AM

Donna Mills is in the upcoming Jordan Peele movie.

Next up, Joan Van Ark on the marquee for Tarantino.

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by Anonymousreply 223June 15, 2022 12:58 AM

R218, R220, yes, she looks great -- even without the snapchat filters and CGI in the video, BUT that is clearly, clearly not her body below the neck. Or not her so-called cleavage. She's not 18, she's 81. And even some of HER other recent photos show what her skin looks like.

Like this one.

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by Anonymousreply 224June 18, 2022 11:53 PM

And here she is with Ms. Silicone Skeletor just three months ago. I'm sure she's disturbed by Joan's creepy look.

by Anonymousreply 225June 18, 2022 11:55 PM

too much colloidal silver

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by Anonymousreply 226June 19, 2022 12:09 AM

Note at R223's link, Mills knows enough to also cover her hands in three coats of makeup, so they match her face.

by Anonymousreply 227June 19, 2022 1:06 AM

Maybe JVA has the same thing that Mitch McConnell had where your extremities turn purple.

Or she's just transitioning to Tinkie Winkie.

by Anonymousreply 228June 19, 2022 4:29 PM

Check me out, Joan

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by Anonymousreply 229June 19, 2022 10:06 PM

It’s not a lump it’s a Bluetooth.

by Anonymousreply 230June 19, 2022 11:07 PM

Donna Mills is fun

by Anonymousreply 231June 19, 2022 11:09 PM

What’s up wth Donna’s eyes in R229’s video?

by Anonymousreply 232June 19, 2022 11:20 PM

Donna looks fantastic but isn't she the zombie lady in the previews? Just her sans make-up?

by Anonymousreply 233June 19, 2022 11:26 PM

Eye have sum fillterz you kan by,

by Anonymousreply 234June 19, 2022 11:30 PM

R193- She looks downright REPTILIAN 🐱‍🐉

by Anonymousreply 235June 19, 2022 11:33 PM

The character of Sandy in the original production of Grease was based on Donna, a graduate of Taft high school in Chicago.

by Anonymousreply 236June 20, 2022 1:17 AM

Just came across a New York Times theater review by Clive Barnes in 1971 of a show Joan was in. Moliere's "The School For Wives" starring Brian Bedford, David Dukes and Joan, It's a rave with Barnes calling the production "a treasure" in the headline. Featuring a gorgeous photo of Bedford and Joan. Barnes says..."The two other leading actors, the flourishing Horace of David Dukes and the radiantly innocent Agnes of Joan Van Ark just show the right panache, also giving the play the verve and sparkle it demands. This is proving a fine New York theater season, the best in years, and "The School For Wives" is certainly among it's treasures.

Joan was nominated for a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

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by Anonymousreply 237July 1, 2022 4:52 PM

She’ll always be the Bionic Boy’s sister to me. Andy Sheffield was played by Vince Van Patten in this 2-part episode from 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 238July 1, 2022 5:02 PM

Joan Van Ark at 78 looks a lot like Kim Richards at 57.

by Anonymousreply 239July 1, 2022 5:07 PM

[quote]Joan Van Ark at 78 looks a lot like Kim Richards at 57.

Joan looks more like Keith Richards.

by Anonymousreply 240July 1, 2022 9:32 PM

Young Joanie.

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by Anonymousreply 241July 1, 2022 9:48 PM

Original issue Joan.

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by Anonymousreply 242July 1, 2022 9:51 PM

I didn't know Joan sang (e.g. Annie in Annie Get Your Gun).

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by Anonymousreply 243July 1, 2022 9:55 PM
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