On Celebrities & Nose Jobs

Recently, I became very interested in celebrity nose jobs. 

I've always been somewhat interested in their plastic surgeries, especially when it's obvious and doesn't turn out as well as they might have hoped, but I started delving particularly into nose jobs, rhinoplasty, and what I found was shocking.  Shocking!

Well, shocking to me, who believed (I guess) naively that celebrities in Hollywood came out of a great gene pool and looked beautiful and fabulous with only the help of makeup and nice clothes.  I assumed -- incorrectly -- that the only ones who got plastic surgery were the ones who weren't so beautiful before and who became only somewhat better looking after, and the ones who were starting to age (which is a no-no in Hollywood), and needed a lift.  Boy, was I wrong. 

I was never one to really believe those sites where the plastic surgeons show you two pictures and tell you the countless number of surgeries one person had on their face.  I usually thought they pointed out way too much surgery to be believed, and I couldn't see any difference at all sometimes, and so I would disregard their whole spiel.  But when you tell me that they have one thing done, like a nose, and I can see from their before and after pictures that that feature looks completely different (how does a nose shrink as you get older?), then I can believe the idea that they had work done.  And that's exactly what happened.  I stumbled upon a site (albeit it was because I searched for "celebrity rhinoplasty") and I found so many celebrities, whom I had assumed to be naturally beautiful, had had nose jobs.  The photos were just too telling.  I could not believe it.  Virtually every celebrity I thought was beautiful had had some work done, and usually, it was their nose, although they sometimes had other stuff done too. 

They say that about 95% (or some other extremely high number like that) of people in Hollywood have nose jobs.  And it's not only women, men too.  Plastic surgery reigns supreme in H town.  I assumed that it was just boob jobs.  That's what people always talk about.  But I was wrong.  It is everything.  Almost no one in Hollywood is natural.  Almost everyone is man-made, a mere mirage. 

Now there's nothing wrong with nose jobs or plastic surgery, and if it makes you more beautiful (as it certainly does in some cases) and happier, I say go for it.  I really don't care that celebrities get plastic surgery; it just disillusions me when I realize that they're not really as beautiful as I thought they were.  Nature didn't make them beautiful, a doctor did.  But I had believed that they were really, truly beautiful.  And that's how they're sold, as real beauties, as creatures better than everyone else; when in point of fact, the only difference between them and everyone else is the skilled hand of a plastic surgeon.   

I told my friends about all the celebs I found who have had nose jobs, and one of my friends said that "It actually makes you feel better, knowing that they're not so unattainable as you thought."  Yes, it does, and it doesn't.  Yes, I like thinking that they're no better than me, that with some money and a skilled plastic surgeon, I could be as breathtakingly beautiful as some of them.  But on the other hand, I also liked looking up to some of these people; I liked admiring them as something better.  It's like looking up to Superman and finding out that he wasn't born strong, he just takes a lot of steroids.  Sure, it's nice to think that I could be like him if I just did what he did, but at the same time, I liked thinking there was someone like him in the world.  He was unique, a better creature created from nature.  To find out that he has been worked on by man despoils him, topples him from his high pedestal, and makes him ordinary. 

I think that's the real disappointment, finding out that these people you looked up to are really just ordinary people with great surgeons.  It's nice to know, and yet, it's not at the same time.