WHY SOME ACTRESSES WISH TO APPEAR UNATTRACTIVE
I have returned from Europe and am about to complete what has been the most fun I have had with summer vacation since I was probably 12 years old. I have been overseas, seen parts of the U.S., and will conclude my travels in the Southeast states of our great nation. Once again political debate is beginning to rage with party conventions and the country feels alive. I read Freakonomics, Blink, and the best of the best, The Black Swan this summer.
So I feel intellectually stimulated to challenge fashion questions of the day like: why some actresses wish to appear unattractive.
Picking on the movie stars again! For those of you who have read Freakonomics the question why do crack dealers live with their mothers may not seem so strange. So I ask the question why so many movie stars want to appear grotesque. Goldie Hawn did the ultimate portrayal of over-filled lip procedures in First Wives Club but since then many stars have out-parodied the parody. Large lips, fixed, seemingly-paralyzed eyes, taut pulled faces are pictured daily in our yellow-journals.
Admittedly I have 2 prejudices: being a man and a cosmetic surgeon. Yet both biases also give me insight. So I think that these divas whose entire lives have been consumed by attention from the press and the public to their beauty, now find themselves virtually ignored in middle age or old age. I will paraphrase James Harris in I’m OK, You’re OK: “Please say something nice about me, but if you can’t please say something bad about me. Please, don’t ignore me.” For someone with a career in the spotlight, being ignored must be devastating. An obvious solution is to make yourself look grotesque to get attention. And attention is what Westerners like to give in press and media. Find a cosmetic surgeon who also enjoys this notoriety and who enjoys profiting from its creation, put the 2 together, and it is no wonder that our impression is that California is the grotesque cosmetic surgery capital of the United States.
Feeling secure in my opinions, I expressed these views to my female relatives in Sweden and they could not disagree more. They each believe poor cosmetic surgical results are the fault of a bad cosmetic surgeon or more commonly an accidental poor outcome. They believe an actress goes to a surgeon who did a wonderful job on her friend and, with bad-luck, had a poor outcome on this person. In my view, they ignore the fact that all of the movie star’s friends look grotesque and that is precisely why they went to that cosmetic surgeon.
So I leave it to you, my readers: do you agree with me or with my beautiful Swedish relatives. Please e-mail me at drlack@metropolitanmds.com and just write “agree” or “disagree”. I will post the results in a few weeks.
Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
Edward B. Lack MD www.metroopolitanmds.com
So I feel intellectually stimulated to challenge fashion questions of the day like: why some actresses wish to appear unattractive.
Picking on the movie stars again! For those of you who have read Freakonomics the question why do crack dealers live with their mothers may not seem so strange. So I ask the question why so many movie stars want to appear grotesque. Goldie Hawn did the ultimate portrayal of over-filled lip procedures in First Wives Club but since then many stars have out-parodied the parody. Large lips, fixed, seemingly-paralyzed eyes, taut pulled faces are pictured daily in our yellow-journals.
Admittedly I have 2 prejudices: being a man and a cosmetic surgeon. Yet both biases also give me insight. So I think that these divas whose entire lives have been consumed by attention from the press and the public to their beauty, now find themselves virtually ignored in middle age or old age. I will paraphrase James Harris in I’m OK, You’re OK: “Please say something nice about me, but if you can’t please say something bad about me. Please, don’t ignore me.” For someone with a career in the spotlight, being ignored must be devastating. An obvious solution is to make yourself look grotesque to get attention. And attention is what Westerners like to give in press and media. Find a cosmetic surgeon who also enjoys this notoriety and who enjoys profiting from its creation, put the 2 together, and it is no wonder that our impression is that California is the grotesque cosmetic surgery capital of the United States.
Feeling secure in my opinions, I expressed these views to my female relatives in Sweden and they could not disagree more. They each believe poor cosmetic surgical results are the fault of a bad cosmetic surgeon or more commonly an accidental poor outcome. They believe an actress goes to a surgeon who did a wonderful job on her friend and, with bad-luck, had a poor outcome on this person. In my view, they ignore the fact that all of the movie star’s friends look grotesque and that is precisely why they went to that cosmetic surgeon.
So I leave it to you, my readers: do you agree with me or with my beautiful Swedish relatives. Please e-mail me at drlack@metropolitanmds.com and just write “agree” or “disagree”. I will post the results in a few weeks.
Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
Edward B. Lack MD www.metroopolitanmds.com
posted by Edward Lack MD at 8:54 AM
1 Comments:
I agree to a point. The patient has to understand that the outcome may or may not turn out like the friend. Everyone is different, and built different. Look at the woman who had her face made like a cat in NY? OMG how grotesque to you and I but to her it may be beauty. Sometimes I think its psychological on the patients part. Like bulemia, and anorexia. They see only 200 lbs of fat yet we see 85 lbs of skin and bones. But its in the head of these people. The cat woman sees beauty in her face,feeling the attractiveness of having this face redone while we see ugliness and grotesqueness of this face distortion. But the surgeon should also see this and get her some help no matter how much money he/she may lose from not doing the procedure.It's also common sense of the surgeon also.
California is the capital of plastic surgery with New York running second. Botched breast jobs( wooow even in Beverly Hills! the most exspensive place to have plastic surgery!) yep stars have had this done to them, face lifts, omg wind blown look!,or the surprised look after a forehead lift and eye lift, butt implants that don't look right, chest implants for men that look like a woman's implant, calf implants that move. Yep and even over inflated lips for some actresses. How would I know? My brother and sister in law work in the film and tv industry and have the up close and personal views of these people. Befores and afters.As I have visited them out in California I too have seen this. And what really bothers me is that a cosmetic surgeon would perform these. Well we all know why....money! What amazes me is why not grow old gracefully and have softer nips and tucks, lifts so they look better but not trying to look like they did when they were twenty? Sad when Hollywood and the runways dictate how thin you should be or whats in with cosmetic surgery. Hense the mental problems. But California is also known for that too. LOL
But I will say that the best cosmetic surgeons in the world are at Metropolitan Mds! Oh and way way better than those Dr 90210 surgeons you see on TV in my opinion.
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