Jen Jones
Pressures to stay slim, pretty, and curvy in Hollywood can cause many young (and old) starlets and stars to go under the knife to get the latest plastic surgery procedure including liposuction, lip augmentation, implants, rhinoplasty, facelifts, or Botox. Some celebrities look natural and as though the surgery never happened; others take things to the extreme and belong in the awful plastic surgery hall of fame. When starlets and stars believe that they need to change their appearances in order to look younger and keep receiving acting jobs, they run the risk of botched plastic surgery.
With the need to become slimmer and younger looking, liposuction is often used to produce a slimmer midsection in the abdomen and thigh region of the body. One use for liposuction among celebrities is to contour the midsection, giving the appearance of a muscular midsection. Liposuction is a popular celebrity plastic surgery procedure which can unfortunately turn out bad if not done correctly.
Actress Tara Reid, best known from starring in the American Pie series in the late 90s, underwent liposuction. Although Reid was naturally thin, she had liposuction done in order to achieve contouring of a six-pack. Instead of coming out of surgery with a contoured abdomen, she came out with a rippled midsection; an effect which aged her body by years.
Actresses tend to undergo a breast augmentation in order to increase the size of their bust. Although many celebrities have been famous for this plastic surgery procedure and many have been talked about in weekly gossip magazines, not all breast augmentation procedures go as smoothly as planned; they sometimes result in deformed and overall bad plastic surgery outcomes.
Vivica Fox, a popular actress in Hollywood, underwent a breast augmentation in order to make her breasts firmer and perkier. As this is a common reason for young women to have a breast augmentation, nothing was thought of it until the 2004 Soul Train Music Awards. At this awards show, Fox flaunted her new features; to the shock of everyone, her new breasts were dented. As with any plastic surgery procedure, breast augmentation has complications, with capsular contracture being a common one. The dents that happened to Fox formed through this side effect, which moved the implant from its original location.
Many celebrities use the excuse of a “deviated septum” to be the reason for undergoing rhinoplasty and receiving a new nose. Whether or not this excuse is the entire truth, only celebrities and their plastic surgeons actually know. Sometimes this procedure can bring good results and enhance the celebrity’s face, but other times they can result in bad plastic surgery.
In the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, actress Jennifer Grey got her start as the wallflower summer love to Patrick Swayze. A few years after the movie came out, Grey underwent rhinoplasty twice; once for the original surgery and once for a touchup. After this surgery, many fans no longer recognized her as the actress in Dirty Dancing, but as a woman who looked similar to her.
Although the celebrities listed above are all women, men are not free from plastic surgery gone wrong. Although some actors undergoing plastic surgery come out from under the knife looking better than before, others unfortunately do not. Most notable famous men going under the knife are singer Michael Jackson and comedian Carrot Top, who have come out from the surgery room looking worse than when they went in. With every surgery—plastic or medical—there are complications; complications which can result in plastic surgery gone wrong and, sometimes, no amount of money or fame can help escape those complications.
[page updated December 2008]