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With a nip-nip there, and a tuck-tuck there, 23-year-old bad actress reality show star/pop singer Heidi Montag looked like a different person.
Montag, star of "The Hills" and half of infamous celebrity-ish couple Speidi (with psycho husband Spencer Pratt), recently spent 10 hours under the knife getting 10 plastic surgeries. That's in addition to surgeries three years ago! Her surgery included breast implants, a brow lift, botox in her forehead, a nose job revision, fat injections in her cheeks, a chin reduction, neck liposuction and had her ears pinned back. She claims she's not addicted, because, as she told Good Morning America, "If you're addicted to something, you have to do it all the time, not once every couple years, if even." I'm not sure that's quite true ...
I support Heidi's right to have plastic surgery, although I question the ethics of the doctor who allowed her to spend 10 hours in elective surgery; most articles I've read said that doctors generally don't want people on the operating table for more than six hours for elective surgery because of the risk of complications. What I think is said is that a girl as cute as Heidi Montag felt pressure, from herself or from Hollywood, to have that much surgery. Montag said that the reason she got surgery was because she's in an image-concious industry. When asked what her message is to girls who see her transformation, she told Nightline, "Well, my main message is that beauty is really within. I'm also in a different industry than they are. You know, I'm in a limelight. I'm in a different industry. And I have to do things that are gonna make me happy at the end of the day."
Sadly, that's the way it works in Hollywood. Look at Michael Jackson - he had so many plastic surgeries in his pursuit of perfection that he stopped looking like himself at all. Jennifer Grey, too, looks nothing like herself any more after plastic surgery - she lost her nose, which made her distinctive. Hollywood wants it both ways, though - people, especially women, are expected to be distinctive, but to stay young and sexy forever. Sometimes, it's not possible to do both. Do too much plastic sugery, and all the women are going to look like plastic Barbie dolls - or like Joan Rivers! (Not that I don't love Joan, but her face does not move.)
Get somebody with a lower self-esteem or body image issues, give them a lot of money and have people telling them, directly or indirectly, that they must stay hot, and you have a recipe for disaster! It's only a matter of time before a starlet dies on the operating table or shortly thereafter - because plastic surgery, like any surgery, can be deadly.
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