I Want A Famous Face
Mar. 16th, 2004 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinHas anyone seen that MTV show? Am I the only one who finds it profoundly disturbing?
The premise basically is that they're following people, early twenties, who want the face of a famous person, and are actually going through plastic surgery to look more like that person.
When I tuned in they showed a guy who wanted to look like Ryan Phillippe (Reese Witherspoon's other half), and he'd gotten out a $5000 loan to have a nosejob, picked his plastic surgeon randomly out of the yellowpages, and gotten the surgery. Of course just picking someone out of the yellow pages is a Really Bad Idea (tm), I can't even comprehend why you'd choose a surgeon that way, especially not one who's doing surgery on something as important as your face. Needless to say it didn't go very well, and he has a crooked nose now.
Then they cut to a pair of twins who wanted to look more like Brad Pitt and showed them going through the surgeries. Two weedy looking guys, one with skin worse than Freddy Kruger. That actually was what all three of those guys looked mostly like... lanky with bad skin and average looks. I have to say, that post-op the twins did look a lot better. They didn't look much like Brad Pitt though.
Supposedly next week a girl is going under the knife to look like her idol Britney Spears, she wants to work as a Britney impersonator.
Now while I can understand not being entirely happy with your face or body, and wanting to change things about it, I don't think I could go to a plastic surgeon and ask to look like another person. Looking better and changing stuff sure, but not trying to be some kind of bizarre carbon copy of someone else.
And on the topic of plastic surgery, we were on the subway to Grand Central last night after karate, and there was a woman who had to be late 50s or early 60s, who'd very obviously had a facelift. Obvious because altogether way too many facelifts seem to have the skin around the eyes pulled too much back, so that they look as though their eyes are going to pop out. It's similar to the way you'd put fingers in the corners of your eyes and pull back as a kid to pretend to have more slanted eyes. Joan Rivers has that skin-too-tight-over-bones look too, it's scary.
The premise basically is that they're following people, early twenties, who want the face of a famous person, and are actually going through plastic surgery to look more like that person.
When I tuned in they showed a guy who wanted to look like Ryan Phillippe (Reese Witherspoon's other half), and he'd gotten out a $5000 loan to have a nosejob, picked his plastic surgeon randomly out of the yellowpages, and gotten the surgery. Of course just picking someone out of the yellow pages is a Really Bad Idea (tm), I can't even comprehend why you'd choose a surgeon that way, especially not one who's doing surgery on something as important as your face. Needless to say it didn't go very well, and he has a crooked nose now.
Then they cut to a pair of twins who wanted to look more like Brad Pitt and showed them going through the surgeries. Two weedy looking guys, one with skin worse than Freddy Kruger. That actually was what all three of those guys looked mostly like... lanky with bad skin and average looks. I have to say, that post-op the twins did look a lot better. They didn't look much like Brad Pitt though.
Supposedly next week a girl is going under the knife to look like her idol Britney Spears, she wants to work as a Britney impersonator.
Now while I can understand not being entirely happy with your face or body, and wanting to change things about it, I don't think I could go to a plastic surgeon and ask to look like another person. Looking better and changing stuff sure, but not trying to be some kind of bizarre carbon copy of someone else.
And on the topic of plastic surgery, we were on the subway to Grand Central last night after karate, and there was a woman who had to be late 50s or early 60s, who'd very obviously had a facelift. Obvious because altogether way too many facelifts seem to have the skin around the eyes pulled too much back, so that they look as though their eyes are going to pop out. It's similar to the way you'd put fingers in the corners of your eyes and pull back as a kid to pretend to have more slanted eyes. Joan Rivers has that skin-too-tight-over-bones look too, it's scary.
