Angelina Jolie ‘Had a Ton of Work Done’ Ahead of ‘Maria’ Promotion and Is Getting ‘Mixed Reviews’

Angelina Jolie gave her face and lips an update ahead of the release of her upcoming film Maria, but people around her are wishing she’d stop and just go for a more natural look, a source exclusively tells Life & Style.

“She’s such a beauty and looks great at 49 for the most part,” the insider spills. “But clearly she’s had a ton of new work done in time for all the publicity for Maria.”

The source points out that the “stress over her court battle [with Brad Pitt] was taking a toll” on Angelina, 49, earlier this year. “It’s true, she was looking quite frail and gaunt a few months ago with circles under her eyes,” the insider adds. “So she had a tune up – and not just lip injections, but likely Botox and other fillers. But this renovation is getting mixed reviews and causing double takes of the worst kind.”

The source concludes, “The hope is that Angelina doesn’t succumb to the temptation of going overboard like so many of her Hollywood peers.”

Angie has already been on a press run for Maria, in which she plays opera singer Maria Callas. The movie will be released in select theaters in the United States on November 27 and then begin streaming on Netflix on December 11.

“This is a career-defining role,” another insider exclusively told Life & Style in September. “Angie is assuming the identity of a woman who was every bit the glamorous star she once was and can be the kind of film that vaults her right back to the top!”

In 2010, when Angelina was 35, she opened up about plastic surgery in an interview with The Daily Mail. “I haven’t had anything done and I don’t think I will,” she admitted at the time. “But if it makes somebody happy then that’s up to them. I’m not in somebody else’s skin to know what makes them feel better about themselves. But I don’t plan to do it myself.”

Since then, the Oscar-winning actress has kept tight-lipped about having work done. However, in 2013, she opened up about going under the knife for a preventative double mastectomy after finding out she carried the BRCA1 gene.

“My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer,” she shared in an op-ed published in the New York Times. “The decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."

Angelina shares six children with Brad, 60, whom she split from in 2016. However, the two have been embroiled in a custody battle since their contentious breakup. They now only have two minor children – Vivienne and Knox Jolie-Pitt – who turn 18 in July 2026.

After having the mastectomy, Angelina’s chances of developing breast cancer lowered to just five percent. “Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of,” she concluded.