Plastic Surgery: Hollywood says Nix-Nix?
Celebrity Plastic Surgery Comments (1)
A close up of Michael Jackson's ear shows where cartiledge was taken for his many nose surgeries.
According to the prestigious New York Times, Hollywood film masters and casting agents are looking for more performers who do not look like they have had rejuvenation surgery.
(Read more about the plastic surgery backlash in Hollywood.)
Fox Broadcasting says they are importing “more natural looking” actors from Down Under and Britain.
What gives?
The very definition of a good plastic surgery outcome is the person who just naturally looks better — although you can’t exactly put your finger on what the change is. Perhaps lost weight, time in new gym, a vacation, a new love, lottery winnings, a huge inheritance…. whatever.
So how do casting directors reject the ones who’ve had cosmetic surgery?
Maybe, we’re just stretching for some possible answer here, but maybe, just maybe, mind you, directors would be concerned about the performers who have breast implants the size of giant beach balls, trout pout lips, facial skin stretched as tight as a drum or foreheads as smooth as glass.
Why, hey, here’s another thought — you could even devote one whole website to celebrities with too much or bad plastic surgery! Because we are talking about actors with bad plastic surgery.
The next obvious question: in a town where name actors can afford the very best of anything, why do so many – like Michael Jackson — end up with bad or overdone cosmetic surgery?
As physicians, plastic surgeons have taken an oath to, “first, do no harm.” That means turning away patients who are not good candidates for a particular cosmetic surgery.
But, insider Beverly Hills cosmetic plastic surgeons say that famous actors intimidate, charm and cajole younger plastic surgeons into doing unnecessary surgery, too often.
Often, if the charm does not work, persistence does. So the celebrity just goes next door to another surgeon and repeats the charm, intimidation and badgering and eventually gets his or her way. (READ: Michael Jackson nose job.)
Surgeons also say that Tinsel town is quick to pick up and embrace the latest fad (READ: Priscilla Presley’s lip augmentation overdone by a non-doctor jamming car lube quality silicone into her kissers.)
So, casting directors, what are you going to do, who are you going to call, when actors with good plastic surgery stand before you in all their natural glory?
Ask for a note from their doctors?
admin @ April 30, 2010
Yes, part of being a doctor is definitely knowing when to tell patients “No”. GPs have seen the consequences of ignoring this principle with the over-prescription of antibiotics for non-bacterial infections. It’s taken a while for the results (widespread bacterial immunity to antibiotics) to show up.
The consequences for a plastic surgeon who goes against his/her better judgment usually show up a lot sooner – and the results damage both the surgeon’s career and the well being of the patient. It’s sad that young, inexperienced surgeons are being talked into performing procedures when they should know better.
D. McCarty