Jerry O’Connell finally gave in to his eyebrow haters – well, sort of.
After years of puckering thick eyebrows, Conversation co-host and actor finally got the comment that prompted him to respond to the hate — with a little help from wife Rebecca Romijn.
The last straw? A user on Xu (formerly known as Twitter) who responded to a video of O’Connell, 50, asking him to “trim” his eyebrows. Specifically, the user asked to model his eyebrows after his 1997 role as Derek scream 2 — but the actor responded with more than just a trim.
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With help from Romijn — a nod to one of his eyebrow hater’s comments, “I can’t believe your wife thinks they’re fine” — O’Connell fired back with an Instagram post shared on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
On the first slide, Stand by me the actor first included a screenshot of the X post that inspired the post, and in the second he included a picture of Romijn, 51, raising his eyebrows as if to shape them.
The photo shows a model holding tweezers in one hand while touching one of her husband’s eyebrows with the other, measuring it.
Jerry O’Connell/Instagram
Then, on the final slide, O’Connell included a selfie of him rocking a pair of ultra-thin eyebrows, giving him a stunning (and practically unrecognizable) look.
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While the actor appeared to have given in to the hater’s request – right down to ’90s-inspired pencil-thin eyebrows, à la Drew Barrymore – the transformation doesn’t seem to be permanent, as he’s back to his usual shaggy brows Conversation the next day.
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Jerry O’Connell with thin eyebrows.
Jerry O’Connell/Instagram
“SICK OF THIS,” O’Connell captioned the joke. “GORGEOUS to see @rebeccaromijn finally address this. do you like it?”
Unfortunately, people didn’t like the actor’s new look – at least that was the consensus in the comments.
His Stand by me Costar Wil Wheaton wrote: “That’ll be a no from me man,” while another called the thin-brow selfie a “jump scare.”
“Stawwwwp, no!” one comment said, adding that the actor “will need a blade.”
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Jerry O’Connell on ‘The Talk’ on Wednesday 30 October.
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Meanwhile, other comments praised O’Connell’s natural eyebrows – and his wife of 17 years for helping him fight back at the hate. “OMG no 🤣 no one messes with their eyebrows,” one person wrote, while another joked, “I like them thick. I like them CHUNKY.”
“I hope you stay together forever,” another read, referring to Romijn. “She gets you and you make her laugh 🤣 I love it and I love her more because she loves you the way you are ❤️.”
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