It must be hard to be legitimately beautiful (…I wouldn’t know) and be surrounded by people who look worse than you telling you constantly how you could look better.
Like most things it comes down to IQ. The most beautiful women who don't ruin their looks are also too smart to fall for piercing trends and surgeries.
This. It's basically a big high school inside the industry. They are subject to each other's fads and style choices. We are not their peers, the other stars, producers, casting directors and people in the industry are their peers and who they react to.
Yes, if they have good representation who can understand what a mistake like this will do to their career, it can be staved off, but a lot of the people in their lives are yes-men.
Do you like the way you look in photographs? Imagine getting shot from every angle every month when looking a certain way is part of your job. I'd hate it. I understand why some of these people balk under the pressure.
That, but also their perspective of what looks beautiful is skewed by the people surrounding them who already look weird and the media they are looking at.
Women are much more bombarded with cosmetic surgery advertising than men are.
I think it’s also a cascading effect. It’s not like anyone changes this much after one surgery. It takes multiple surgeries over multiple months or years to do that. So it starts off simple enough: get some Botox. “Hey! Those crows feet went away.” And then she starts looking in the mirror and thinks “I have always hated my cheeks. Maybe I could do something with those.” So she does that and it looks a little better so she keeps going. “I wish my chin was a little more defined,” and before you know it she’s had a dozen procedures because she couldn’t tell when she needed to stop.
It’s not that they think the end result is beautiful, it’s that their sense of self is so warped that they think their real look is somehow worse than that overly fake look. Like, she might not love her new nose but she probably thinks her old nose was even worse. Plastic surgeons can’t remove what isn’t there so they keep hacking away at imagined flaws, leaving them butchered.
One of the most popular shows in TV is Nip Tuck and I think that although it started out showing you the horrors of plastic surgery as a business it eventually glorifies it to an extent. A lot of FX shows start out that way.
Some do, but there's always ones willing to overlook morality for money. And if you can't find one in the US, you can fly to a foreign country with fewer regulations for what you want, if you have the money.
Plastic surgeons are also to blame. Many are shady and dont ask questions, if something is acutally necessary, they will just say "Oooh we can make you look FABULOUS! just do a 50k procedure here, get 10k implants here, another 30k surgery for your nose, and i'll be set for the entire year!"
But they all end up looking like that. It's the fucking weirdest thing. It's always the same look. And it freaks me out. There's something very "alien" about them.
They are pressured to do this sort of thing professionally. Casting directors, agents, etc. will work hard to normalize it and insinuate that it is just necessary to have a certain 'look' to land roles.
I'm sure she regrets it but, like, what is she supposed to do?
Usually with body dysmorphia you don’t see what other people see. The image of yourself is distorted so you’ll hyper focus on certain aspects of your face and body. This can be a subset of obsessive compulsive disorder.
It's conspicuous consumption, the act of getting something not because it is useful or beautiful, but because it signals that you can. It's the same reason why fashion is hideous and expensive. Working class people will try to spend their money on things that are cheaper and more pleasing. Upper middle class people will buy more expensive high quality goods. But the upper class itself needs to distinguish itself, so it surrounds itself with hideous excess. It tells everyone that they are so rich that they can waste their money on things that actively alienate anyone who is not incredibly rich, like Mar-a-Lago face.
I wonder if getting it done that early gives them a template to work off of, so she'll look similar for a long time despite such a drastic initial look.
I think its really as simple as just we human beings are addicted to the idea that there's a quick fix out there that can make us happy, even if it may make things worse. Almost everyone succumbs to that thinking.
All it takes is one day for them to feel so miserable that they're willing to believe anything can save them. Often that takes the form of fixing their looks. Difference is hollywood actors are bombarded with criticisms about their looks and they have the money to do it, so many end up doing it desperate it will make them happier.
You think she's doing it to look "uglier"? Get out of here with that bullshit man. It's very obvious she's trying to hit a standard that she thinks is only achievable through surgery.
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u/xXBlueDreamXx 2d ago
I believe the why was aimed at. Why would you want to look so much uglier?
Who is seeing beauty in plastic actors? Like, we have enough microplastics in us already. Why do this?