Kim Basinger Looked Unrecognizable During Rare Public Outing At Daughter Ireland Baldwin's Baby Shower

Sep 22, 2023 by apost team

Kim Basinger is a talented actress. She was born on Dec. 8, 1953, to mother Ann Cordell and father Donald Wade Basinger. While Basinger’s mom was a model, actress, and swimmer, her father was a big band musician and a loan manager. Hence, it is no surprise that she was nurtured into the arts from an early age. Basinger, who was a shy kid, started ballet classes at 3 and continued taking those classes until her teen years when she gained the confidence to join the cheerleading team.

At the age of 17, Basinger competed in the Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant, where she won at the city level. Despite not winning at the state level, her beauty was profiled at the national level. Basinger went on to become a Ford model, but despite racking in impressive cash from modeling, she hated it because it made her overly conscious of her body.

After years as a cover girl, she abandoned modeling and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Basinger landed several guest roles on small screen projects until 1978 when she earned her first starring role in “Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold.” She went on to feature in several other projects until she got her breakthrough role as Bond girl Domino Petachi in the 1983 James Bond film “Never Say Never Again.”

Since coming into the limelight, she has won several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. With her reduced activity in the industry, Basinger has not made public appearances in some time. However, on March 7, 2023, the former Bond girl looked unrecognizable at her daughter Ireland Baldwin's baby shower.

Besides making headlines for the success of her career as an actress, Basinger was also a subject of attention in her personal life. In addition to her rich dating profile, the “L.A. Confidential” star has been married and divorced twice.

She was first married in 1980 to makeup artist Ron Snyder-Britton. The couple met on the set of the 1981 film “Hard Country” and got married after a whirlwind romance. In the same year, the actress suffered her first episode of agoraphobia after she had a panic attack in a health-food store. She was homebound for months. When she was eventually ready to work again, Britton had to quit his job to accompany her to film sets because of her panic attacks. The pair were married for nine years until their divorce in 1989.

One year after her first marriage ended, Basinger met her second husband, Alec Baldwin, on the set of “The Marrying Man,” where they costarred as lovers. Their onscreen romance continued offscreen, and in 1993, the lovebirds exchanged vows. They welcomed their daughter, Ireland, on Oct. 23, 1995, and separated in 2000. In 2002, the divorce between the couple was finalized, but that was not the end, as it was followed by a bitter custody battle for their daughter.

In 2014, over a decade after her divorce, the former Bond girl found love again with hairstylist Mitch Stone. The couple started dating shortly after they met and are currently living together.

Despite all she has been through in life, Basinger has no regrets. She told Georgian Journal:

“I truly have no regrets, I try to live everyday in the present not having one foot in the future or one foot in the past. I try to stay in the present everyday and to be grateful and thankful to God for life.”

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In March 2023, Basinger was spotted at her daughter Ireland’s baby shower wearing a dark gray trouser suit over a button-up black blouse. Basinger paired her look with a brown handbag and black shoes. She wore minimal makeup and left her blonde hair to fall around her shoulders.

Although the actress dressed differently from the theme of the baby shower, the focus wasn’t on her attire. Rather, it was about her looking different from the Hollywood sex symbol of her heydays. In the prime of her career, Basinger was a sight for sore eyes. Besides making a statement with her cover feature in Playboy magazine, she was ranked number three in Los Angeles Times Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful Women in Film.” 

However, as she grew older, people began to notice changes in her facial structure, fueling rumors that she underwent surgery. In a 2006 publication by Evening Standard, plastic surgeon Alex Karidis analyzed changes in her facial features that were synonymous with beauty procedures.

“I am absolutely convinced that Kim has had some filler put into her lips and work done around the mouth,” he said.

Although Basinger has not publicly come out to address these rumors, she has openly talked about her struggles with social isolation. In an April 2022 publication by People, taken from her appearance on “Red Table Talk,” Basinger gave insights into her battle with agoraphobia.

"I wouldn't leave the house. I would no longer go to dinner," she shared.

The actress revealed that she had to go through a learning curve, relearning to do everything that was considered basic.

"I had to relearn to drive, and for many years I would not go through the tunnels at Malibu," the actress revealed. "Everything used to make me nervous, like the glass (sliding) to open the door, or, 'Where do I step to open the door?' Everything became a big job to figure out how to do it."

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