Plastic Surgery
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A lot of people have seen the photos of Heidi Montag recently, the wanna-be star known for her multiple plastic surgeries. It's obvious that, before she started the surgeries, she was a good-looking girl: good facial structure, actual planes on her face, someone obviously attractive.
Now her face looks like it's made of bread dough. A generic rounded lump devoid not just of individuality and naturalness but of any sharpness that would give definition to her features. She was already pretty, but she wanted to be "pretty" (I can't write it without the scare quotes) in a certain way---Playboy pretty. And Playboy pretty is defined by these very things: genericism, roundedness, and above all an obvious trace of alteration.
I'm always amazed at women with big boob jobs: they look so, so fake and (to me) unattractive. But maybe that's the very point: Part of the aesthetic is that you can tell that the woman has altered herself. And that alteration---with its implications of insecurity, submission to a narrow male ideal, and sexual prioritizing---is the thing that is attractive to a certain demographic of men. Not the actual looks as much as the evidence that she's put herself under the knife.
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A lot of people have seen the photos of Heidi Montag recently, the wanna-be star known for her multiple plastic surgeries. It's obvious that, before she started the surgeries, she was a good-looking girl: good facial structure, actual planes on her face, someone obviously attractive.
Now her face looks like it's made of bread dough. A generic rounded lump devoid not just of individuality and naturalness but of any sharpness that would give definition to her features. She was already pretty, but she wanted to be "pretty" (I can't write it without the scare quotes) in a certain way---Playboy pretty. And Playboy pretty is defined by these very things: genericism, roundedness, and above all an obvious trace of alteration.
I'm always amazed at women with big boob jobs: they look so, so fake and (to me) unattractive. But maybe that's the very point: Part of the aesthetic is that you can tell that the woman has altered herself. And that alteration---with its implications of insecurity, submission to a narrow male ideal, and sexual prioritizing---is the thing that is attractive to a certain demographic of men. Not the actual looks as much as the evidence that she's put herself under the knife.
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posted by Anonymous at
3:41 PM
4 Comments:
So, so true. I hate the way Mariah Carey looks now. Her chest is way too big for her body. She looks so awkward and out of proportion. Why did she feel she needed this monstrous bustline?
Sally
i am horrified by heidi montag's transformation. she started out adorable and human. she looked like a disney sketch to me---like one of the darling protagonists in the original 101 Dalmatians commercial. and then she began morphing into Somebody Else's Wet Dream, and my distress mounted. poor, poor girl. what has she done?
I have no problem with plastic surgery and I'd even like to get some . . . but someone needs to stop Heidi Montag. She's not just getting a touch-up here and there, she's ill. She's like a walking PSA for body dysmorphic disorder. ♫♪The more you know!♫♪
Ha! I love your PSA music, Catherine. I too am pro-plastic surgery, esp. for aging stuff. But Heidi and her ilk are sad.
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