Vertical Facelift -- Dr. Renato Calabria -- Media

She had already announced it:"I would like to have a face-lift" said Sharon Stone, 42, in an interview with the British TV-station "Channel". "Only a little one, I'm starting to fall apart". This was last summer. Now the observers speculate that the Basic-Instinct Star treated herself to a big one. As a matter of fact fans and journalists didn't believe their eyes at her most recent Hollywood appearance in March. The once finely sculptured face of the star seemed much rounder. The cheeks looked like little red colored apple-cheeks, her eyes had the typical wide look of a face stretched artificially. New was also the hairdo of the star. Thin bangs covered cleverly the hair-roots and parts of the temple: an often used optical trick to hide fresh scars from a face-lift.

Although she always talks openly about her willingness to optically rejuvenate herself, her management talks very little about it. Cindi Berger, Sharon Stones spokesperson, answered with a "certainly not" to Bunte's questions if her client went to a plastic surgeon as all showbiz-ladies do this days. Meanwhile there were first signs already in 1993 that the cool beauty had some little wrinkles corrected around her eyes and her mouth. And Dr. Jerome Craft, a plastic surgeon in Palm Beach, Florida, speaks openly about the fact that according to his knowledge those were followed by little surgical procedures to her cheeks, eyes and throat. The surgeon of these corrections was most probably the top surgeon Dr. Harry Glassmann, who already rejuvenated his own wife, ex "Dallas" star Victoria Principal. His spokesperson told Bunte ambiguously: "We do not give information about our patients".

There seems to be an additional indication to validate a recent operation. Sharon Stone disappeared from the screens after the end of her acting in "If These Walls Could Talk 2" in fall 1999. It's not excluded that she has put herself in the hands of the new High Society Beauty Guru of Beverly Hills, Dr. Renato Calabria. His new, quick healing procedure: the vertical face-lift four small cuts over the hairline and two in the mouth; he does that with the help of the endoscope and the camera.

As exciting the new change of Sharon Stone may be, her husband Phil Bronstein has very different problems right now. He probably lost his job as chief editor of the "San Francisco Examiner". The well-known news-paper was bought by the competing newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle". To the Bunte question how his professional future looks like, he answered: "1 do not have the foggiest idea".