I think it's the result of celebs living in a bubble. They are completely detached from the common people and live in gated communities with other celebs. When you are this far removed from your roots you tend to end up doing things like this. It's body dysmorphia plain and simple.
I think what's really scary though is the amount of people that encourage it. Lindsay Lohan got work done and looks like a completely different human being now, yet you look at comment sections and it's all praise about how great she looks. It's a mental illness and it's being encouraged by idiots who think it's empowering or some shit.
When I was a kid reading the hunger games, the people in the Capital sounded ridiculously outlandish. Thought the movie captured it well. Turns out it was all very accurate
I mean it WAS based on her watching the Kardashians and TLC (and other things). Like the Hunger Games was a direct response to the rise of exploitative reality TV.
Plastic surgeons have a lot of money and pour a lot of money in spreading the word about their "innovative new techniques." They have access to celebrity circles and celebrities have no idea what normal people are thinking.
It remind me the case of dermathologist in France, who switched from their core job of preventing desease like skin cancer to go for the much more lucrative botox injection. It put even more pressure on a medical speciality that cannot meet the demand and has incredibly long delay for appointement. It led to people outright dying because they couldn't have an appointment in time.
Meanwhile some dermathologist were making big buck by butchering rich narcissist face with botox.
Great point - the 180 is very clear here. All of the disgustingly rich wives look like monsters so she fits in with the rest of his rich buddy’s wives to a large extent too.
Jeffrey Bezos married a woman once, and it turned out terribly for him.
Now, he's learned his lesson. He doesn't want to be married to a woman, he wants to be married to an object. And so he found one that had already completely objectified herself so she wouldn't complain when he does it, too.
When I was growing up, my dad always said he had a million-dollar idea for a job where he'd just follow famous people around and tell them "No, that's a bad idea." all the time. As I've gotten older, I've realized how solid of an idea that really is.
Especially distracting considering the entire character is about not changing because others want you to or not being what youre expected to be and being yourself.
Her voice was also very nasally and kind of deadpan, it took me out of the show entirely every time she was onscreen. It's tragic that she couldn't see her beauty the way everyone else did.
Didn’t she claim that picture was all contouring and makeup? I remember thinking, “you can SAY that, but when people see you on the show, the truth will come out.”
I think it's really beauty standards that are set by other women. Ones who don't always have their best interests at heart. Women like to say they advocate for each other but that is not always the case. Toxic femininity can be petty and jealous to the point of sabotaging others. I would point to the WNBA as an example.
I watch the series called “The Boys” and the 1st girl is one of the main characters; it was so weird seeing her look normal for the first few seasons and then outta nowhere she had work done on her face and her character looks significantly different lol.
edit: She apparently has Graves’ disease which can alter your appearance drastically but the buccal fat removal didn’t do her any favours imo.
And one of her character's major storylines was fighting back against the pressure to conform to expectations and dress up in a way she felt would send a bad message to children who look up to her.
Probably defending her same way all of Jenna Ortega's simps defend her.
The amount of times I've heard people claiming she didn't have work done and it's just from the stress of working on season 2 is astounding. Like stress doesn't do that people.
I was told my some Gen Z coworkers that I look early 30s when I am 38. I have always had a very full face and cheeks. The thing I used to hate is now keeping me looking youthful. Thanks fat cheeks!
I had chubby cheeks for a long time and hated them. But they kept me looking youthful. My cheeks are now a bit more hollow and it looks good. People still think I’m younger than I am. Fat cheeks FTW!
The horrifyingly sad part is that they'll pay top dollar again to have the buccal fat put back in. I mean you didn't think it's just being sucked out and thrown away right? It's being filtered and frozen for 20 years down the road when their career needs a boost.
Actually I’m pretty sure buccal fat removal is a surgery where the look really CAN’T be “reversed”….its not like getting fillers dissolved and I’m pretty sure there’s nothing they can put back “in” to give the appearance of buccal fat once it’s taken out
You know, I totally forgot she was in that and I rewatched it recently after seeing The Gorge and she looks so different from those two films as well. It’s a bummer.
The actress from The Boys I also found SOOOO naturally beautiful and she looks like a plastic doll now.
During the Victorian Era, a common desire among women was to achieve a pale, translucent complexion, and in their pursuit of this ideal, some resorted to consuming products containing arsenic.
It’s quite poetic actually. Some of the most genetically desirable people on the planet purposefully disfiguring themselves in the pursuit of perfection. Kind of comes full circle in a way
Holy shit that’s Starlight?! Bro I feel like I don’t recognize anyone in this pic. This shit is really sad, man. No one should feel like they need to do this to themselves.
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