Forget those crazy hairstyles on "Shear Genius"-the true work of art on that reality show is Jaclyn Smith's face. It's almost impossible to believe that our favorite "Charlie's Angel"-and Kmart furniture and clothing shiller-is now (gulp) 61. No, that's not a typo. Smith doesn't look a day over 45, which is remarkable considering that former pinup Farrah Fawcett, by comparison, looks like the crypt-keeper these days, and Kate Jackson's face is so tight you could bounce a penny off it. So how does she do it? Is her youthful look just plain luck, good genetics, part of a pact with the devil, or did Bosley hook her up with an extremely skillful plastic surgeon? (And if so, can we get that surgeon's number-like, now?) We investigate.

That's the quintessential diplomatic non-answer, so let's see what the professionals have to say. On CelebrityCosmeticSurgery.blogspot.com, plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn wrote, "I think that Jaclyn Smith (60 years old) looks fantastic. She looks like an older Katherine McPhee. Although I haven't seen her (or a photo of her) in a few years, it appears that she's had a facelift with fat grafting (my specialty-the 3-D Volumetric Facelift). That's why I think her face looks the "softest" of the three. Her skin is tight, but not too tight (see Kate Jackson) and she doesn't have the gauntness of Farrah. I've always said that good plastic surgery is so good that you can't tell it's been done. She doesn't have any of the telltale signs of plastic surgery that I could see last night, except that her age gives her away. In my opinion, that's good work."

Gossip site TMZ.com-notorious for their take no-prisoners attitude about celebs-also couldn't stop raving over Smith's looks: She "proves, week after week, that not all actresses over 40 need morph into the reassembled Botox bride of Beverly Hills-enstein."
After her appearance on the Emmy Awards-in which co-Angels Farrah and Kate looked like two ugly stepsisters next to her-word of Smith's does-she-or-doesn't-she youthful look set the world buzzing. An article in London's "Daily Mail" newspaper had this to say: "Miss Smith insisted their secret to defying the ravages of time was simply 'Clean living and a bit of sparkle on the cheek bones.'" The article also asked Alex Karidis of the St. John and St. Elizabeth Hospital in North London for his expert opinion.

"Smith is really looking very good," Karidis said. "She always had the benefit of high cheek bones which bodes very well for her. It's like a coat hanger in a coat - it holds up everything. If you have a good bone structure underneath then the skin and bone sit nicely and you age better. That has helped her out quite a bit. I would say she has had a little bit of work done to that jawline to keep it that way. She has had a bit of Botox around the laughter lines. All of the girls have had injectable fillers to get rid of the natural nose to mouth line...and perhaps Botox on their foreheads. ...In all three of them the jawline is looking very sharp indeed. At their age I would think they would probably have had some work done to get that appearance. I would suspect that is the case-you can't get that look without having surgery.

Looks like "clean living and a bit of sparkle on the cheek bones" might be code word for "a top-secret visit to the world's best cosmetic surgeon."(Otherwise, that woman totally hit the Mother Nature jackpot.) Still, you can't fault Jaclyn Smith for getting a little touch-up here and there, and perhaps having her brunette hair under the attentive care of a colorist to keep the grays at bay. She looks amazing for her age-seriously, most 50-year-olds don't look that good-and it beats being mistaken for a granny. And in today's Hollywood, where most "women of age" obsessively go under the knife to achieve scary, fake, and plastic faces, the light, graceful touch behind Smith's work is downright refreshing.

But if this woman can still rock a bikini like she did in the '70s, you have my permission to hate her guts.