I have never understood why you’d want to botch up your God given looks and end up looking like a waxy apparition of your former self. But everyday media bombards us with celebrities and their new faces and bodies.

 

We have Heidi Montag and her new Barbie face and body but look what it got her Spencer Pratt, so she certainly didn’t win there. Then of course there is Cher, whom we love but is looking rather frozen (am being kind). So you have to wonder whether this is part of the reason why Chastity Bono is now a man.  And then there is Priscilla Presley who looks rather scary these days and lest we forget the late King of Pop and his affinity for Planet of the Apes.

 

Of course we should not forget the ultimate, the poster woman for plastic surgery gone wrong, Josephine Wildenstein. The woman who tried to look like a cat.  We know how she is going to go as every Halloween.  Now even Simba would be afraid.

 

A next fave is Amanda Lepore, the transvestite who tried to go for a look, which in her own words was a mix of Marilyn Monroe and Jessica Rabbit.  Achieving neither but a slot in a circus freak show.

 

The list could go on and on with Donatella Versace, a virtual caricature; Gianni must be turning in his grave. Mickey Rourke who was hot at one time in his career, remember 9 ½ weeks?? Of course our Asian superstar Hang Mioku, the Korean plastic surgery addict who injected cooking oil into her face!!

 

Whatever happened to aging gracefully ala Catherine Deneuve or a minor nip and tuck here to look refreshed.  When your ears start touching the back of your head or your belly button is now in your cleavage you know you’re gone overboard.

 

-JT