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20 January 2010

Poor Heidi Montag. She used to be so pretty. Now she looks 10 years older and like she's on her way to being the next Jocelyn Wildenstein. [More:]Doesn't psych testing have to be done before people undergo so much plastic surgery?
It's funny, but as soon as I saw the People spread, Jocelyn was the first person I thought of (except I didn't remember her name so I said "Heidi's turning into that weird cat-face lady!")
posted by rmless2 20 January | 18:09
Definitely her natural look was better.
posted by dhartung 20 January | 18:22
I'm sort of glad that I had to Google both "Heidi Montag" and "Jocelyn Wildenstein" to figure out what this was about. Although I don't feel any better about myself now that I did.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 January | 18:39
Damn. She was my favorite.
posted by mullacc 20 January | 18:39
I saw her on GMA speaking with a reporter, and what's weird is that I think she basically looks the same (except her breasts, which I couldn't really see during the sit-down interview). What a waste.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 18:41
I don't disagree with the tone, and I'm suitably horrified by the fact that she had 10 procedures in one day, or whatever it was.

...HOWEVER I'd also point out that the 2 most recent photos in that article are either such low-res crops and as a result, all pixellated/noisy, or so egregiously over-sharpened and full of rendered liney artifacts as a result, that it's tremendously difficult to tell if the lines and jaggies are photo artifacts or indeed cosmetic surgery scars/lines/bumps.

I also wouldn't put it past the journalist in question to have deliberately mucked about with the photos, just so they could write a deliberately snarky and judgemental article, because being snarky and judgemental is the new black for the media types.

NOT that I don't feel snarky and judgemental about it myself, but hey, it's her face, body and money, so she can do with it whatever she wants. The sad and screwy part is the message that it sends, bla bla bla.

... all of which just underscores how important it is to maintain effective communications about this sort of thing with any young impressionable females in one's life.
posted by lonefrontranger 20 January | 18:44
Man, people are fuckin weird.
posted by flapjax at midnite 20 January | 19:00
lfr, there's lots of post-surgery video of her out there. The photos aren't messed with, she looks the same in TV interviews.
posted by amro 20 January | 19:05
I kinda feel like obsessive plastic surgery has to be related to the same problem that can cause eating disorders (a distorted impression of what you look like).

I'm going to have to go with the philosophy of "I earned these lines, dammit" as I can't even vaguely imagine surgery to make things look different (obviously, there are circumstances that make plastic surgery a good thing for some people - accidents, extreme weight loss, etc., I'm not referring to that at all).
posted by Sil 20 January | 21:57
Word. Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I see that.
posted by gaspode 20 January | 22:21
I really hope this collagen lips trend dies a quick, painful flaming death soon. It's terribly repulsive.
posted by ufez 20 January | 23:30
What's most shocking to me is that she is 23, and that she started to have surgery at 21! This is not old-lady trying to recapture her youth, this is a young woman who has barely stopped *growing* before surgically altering her features!

yikes.
posted by typewriter 20 January | 23:31
agreed, typewriter.
She really didn't need botox at 23 (well, I'd argue that she didn't need the rest of it either).

It's weird to look at the progression of the 3 pictures:
1. (2006) Above average looking girl, mostly normal, nothing too special, real girl who has a personality
2. (2008) Blonde, boobs, looks like a starlet/bimbo type, still retains some eye and mouth features that separate her
3. (now) Has lost all distinguishing characteristics, seems to have aged 15 years, looks half-plastic and not human, a complete composite of features
posted by rmless2 21 January | 00:36
Body Dysmorphic Disorder - gaspode got it in one.
posted by gomichild 21 January | 02:26
Everyone has the right to do whatever she likes to her body of course, and I'd be willing to just accept that Southern California has this culture of appearance homogeny and write it off at that, but it really bums me out that these are the people who we've charged with telling our stories. I hate that I'm such a snob about TV and movies, but when I see these actors who look less and less like the people I see every day, it just totally undermines any meaning I could have gotten out of their performances. (It probably goes without saying that I'm not necessarily talking about the actors in this post - but people like Mary McDonnell who is a really fantastic actor and appears to have had a facelift a couple years ago.)
posted by serazin 21 January | 02:35
I guess time will tell if this was a good choice for her. In the short term, it probably is, because people are talking about her. I didn't know who she was, and had to look her up... so now I do. Sort of.

But altering herself to look exactly like every third girl in LA is possibly not the wisest course in the long term. What's to distinguish her?

Plus, I suspect I'm not entirely alone in finding all the same-sameness increasingly boring and tedious, and wondering if this look hasn't reached the end of it's natural (or unnatural) life span. fingers crossed

Maybe it's time for flat-chested, thin-lipped brunettes, or plump redheads with long noses?

Anyway, I can't help thinking of Jennifer Grey from "Dirty Dancing," who became unrecognizable (and thus, unemployable, basically) after a rhinoplasty:

The 1980s star's promising career ground to a complete halt overnight in the early 1990s because suddenly nobody recognised her - and even friends would blank her when she bumped into them. She says, "I went in the operating theatre a celebrity - and come out anonymous... I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises... because of a nose job."

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posted by taz 21 January | 02:45
Body Dysmorphic Disorder is the first thing that popped into my head. This isn't a simple case of seeking the California starlet bimbo look, she's got bigger problems.

And poor, foolish Jennifer Grey.
posted by Specklet 21 January | 03:36
I'm not sure how anyone can say she looks the same. She looks like a wax dummy of her former self with all the angles smoothed away. I can barely tell she's the same person.
posted by justgary 21 January | 04:16
I love how she looks before (without the breast implants). She looks natural and beautiful. It's sad that she felt she needed botox and a brow lift at 23.
posted by LoriFLA 21 January | 07:50
The body dysmorphic disorder is why I asked about psych testing. Doesn't the plastic surgeon have some responsibility to see it and address it in some way? Maybe he did, maybe she got psych clearance, I don't know.
posted by amro 21 January | 08:34
I'm not sure how anyone can say she looks the same.

Call me crazy, that's how I see it- compared to the version of herself directly before this round of surgery, I don't think she looks all that different. The first thing I noticed watching her on TV was her big fake eyelashes. She looks different from the pre-nose and boob job girl we first saw on "Laguna Beach", of course.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 January | 10:49
She looks dead in the eyes. I feel sorry for her and hope she gets the help she so obviously needs. Those with low self-esteem should not google themselves and go from blog to blog reading negative comments about their physical attributes (chin and teeth, horse-face, etc). In addition to her issues, I do think there's a sort of Dorothy Stratten thing going on here. I see her svengali-like husband as very controlling and exploitative and don't believe him for one second when he says he didn't encourage this. Very sad all around.
posted by iconomy 21 January | 11:40
She was quite pretty before surgery. She still very pretty, but I think she'll age fast. I've started to notice women who have a certain look that comes from bad or too much cosmetic surgery. Demi Moore used to be beautiful, ow she's pretty in a generic way. Mary Tyler Moore's face looks painfully stretched, and Christine Lahti looks much less appealing than she used to.

Montag seems like a media addict.
posted by theora55 21 January | 12:01
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