Renee Zellweger May Have Had Cosmetic Surgery To Hide Her Ethnic Roots

Renee Zellweger hit the news headlines earlier this week, following some pretty drastic cosmetic surgery she had done to her face recently, and apparently, she did so to hide her Norwegian Sami/Kven heritage in order to look more “traditionally European.”

That claim comes from a top professor of Finnish culture, Edward Dutton, from Oulu University in Finland, who says that Renee went under the knife to hide her ethnic roots.

According to Professor Dutton, “With a Swiss father and a mother who is part Kven and part Sami – ethnic minorities Indigenous to Norway, Finland and Sweden – Renee had a somewhat “eastern” face. I suspect Renee has had plastic surgery which makes her look less Sami, less Kven, and more stereotypically North European. She was so much more beautiful and interesting when she had the courage to be Sami and Kven.”

While talking about Renee Zellweger’s possible intentions for the surgery, Dutton compared her to none other than the King of Pop himself.”

There seems little question that Michael Jackson underwent plastic surgery to make himself look more European, and Renee seems to have done exactly the same thing. How sad,” he said.

Another example of this is The Talk anchor Julie Chen, who revealed last year that she had cosmetic surgery on her eyes when she was 25 to make them look “less Asian” as a young TV news reporter.

According to Dutton,, the Sami are originally reindeer-herding people living in Lapland in the far north of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and some parts of Russia. Being that they are indigenous to Scandinavia, the Sami have a certain look which reflects that.

The Kven are descended from Finnish peasants who migrated to Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries. Both are distinct from most modern Scandinavians in their eastern facial look, especially around the eyes.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Randal Haworth also spoke to the Daily Mail, telling them “Renee’s defining trademark characteristic was her small, squinty eyes, which complemented her quirky personality perfectly. In my opinion, Renee underwent a blepharoplasty; which entails removing the perceived excess amount of eyelid skin and fat from the area between the eyebrow and the upper eyelash.”

According to Dutton, Renee Zellweger “[a]ppears to be following in the long tradition of Finns making themselves look more stereotypically European. Genetically speaking, we value that which is both beautiful and rare, and Renee was beautiful for precisely this reason.”