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
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