I love Helen Mirren, but only when I can stand back and appreciate her extraordinary talent, and I don’t have to listen to some of the crazy things she says. Like when she said that women can’t take a man to court for raping them, or that locking a woman in a closet and forcing her to have sex isn’t rape, or that female jurors won’t convict a man of rape because of sexual jealousy. Mirren is a little batty in real life, so she’s one of those people I try not to read about. But this recent interview got me – Mirren thinks that she has no judgment for women who go through plastic surgery, because she completely understands that someone could look at themselves and say “’I don’t want to look at that face anymore.” Hmm…

Helen Mirren might not opt to go under the knife herself, but she doesn’t judge her Hollywood cohorts for getting plastic surgery.

“You go, ‘I don’t want to look at that face anymore,’ and I understand that, absolutely,” the actress told British morning show GMTV.

The 64-year-old star added, “I think people should be allowed to do whatever they want to make themselves feel happy.”

One thing about her body — which she flaunted in a red bikini back in 2008 — she doesn’t like is a tattoo she got when she was just a teen.

“I was very, very drunk,” she said recently. “It was a very, very long time ago, when only sailors and Hell’s Angels were tattooed, honestly, and prisoners. I decided to get a tattoo because it was the most shocking thing I could think of doing.”

Although she said she’s now “utterly disgusted” by the body art, the Queen star braved a thorough, full-body examination by Madame Tussauds wax museum.

“To be measured by calipers, every inch of you, it’s a bit intimidating,” she told GMTV of the process to create a wax figurine in her likeness, which is set to debut in April. “Every inch of you gets measured!”

[From Us Weekly]

In theory, I kind of agree with the whole “live and let live” thing for plastic surgery. I said, in theory! In practice I know I do get judgy. It offends me when a beautiful woman ruins their face with some jacked up procedure. It offends me when one of those women suddenly reappears with a new face and acts like nothing happened. It offends me when those actresses deny their plastic surgery.

By the way, I still don’t like this dress Mirren wore to the SAGs, and I can’t believe so many of you liked it! To me, it looks so cheap, and it ages her terribly.

Helen Mirren and her husband Taylor Hackford at the SAGs on January 23, 2010. Credit: WENN.