Plastic surgery has been a longtime friend of people suffering from an identity crisis, but none have become quite as well-acquainted with the procedures than the rich and famous. With all those cameras flashing and tabloid magazines analyzing every dump you take, celebrities can become pretty self-conscious about how they look while taking that dump – even to the point of inducing a form of psychoses known as body dysmorphic disorder (aka “imagined ugly syndrome”).
And it’s thanks to plastic surgery that we’ve been able to witness once idolized pop stars like Michael Jackson transform before our eyes into a pale ghoulish atrocity – haunting the covers of magazines and giving children nightmares. So we’ve decided to explore this dark underbelly of celebrity by bringing you the biggest plastic surgery disasters of the stars.
Carrot Top never really had that much going for him in the first place. When he first appeared on the comedy scene in the early 90’s, he was a pale, freckled, red-headed and sickly looking comedian with an obnoxious style. But that just makes it all the more disturbing to see his recent transformation into a body-building, plastic surgery-addicted wacko.
The comedian is said to have undergone a dizzying array of operations including Botox, brow lifts, chemical peels and laser treatments. He also clearly has a love affair with the tanning bed, though that’s understandable considering it helps hide his jarring freckles.
As a result of his procedures, he stands out in the typically modest world of comedians as a freakish orange-tinted Hulk. But it still might have been a good move considering if it weren’t for his rise to fame as a plastic surgery disaster, any career his burning orange hair provided would probably have fizzled by now.
Despite her prolific career in country music, acting and philanthropy, Dolly Parton has recently gained notoriety as a plastic surgery fiend – and she’s not afraid to admit it. “If I see something sagging, bagging and dragging, I’m going to nip it, tuck it and suck it,” she had said. “Why should I look like an old barn dog if I don’t have to?!”
Well, to answer her question – because now you look like a plastic old barn dog! And at the ripe old age of 63, she’s undergone facelifts, breast implants, rhinoplasty, Botox, and many, many more in an attempt to rid herself of that barn dog look.
And why, you ask, would such a talented woman subject herself to all of these surgeries? For the fans, of course! Or at least that’s what she says – though if that’s true, it seriously makes me wonder as to what kind of people her fans are. Probably taxidermists.
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers may be 75 years old, but she doesn’t look it. That’s because she no longer looks human in general.
This comedian, actress and talk show host from New York has done it all when it comes to plastic surgery and she’s proud of it, as evidenced from the title of her new book Men Are Stupid… And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman’s Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery.
But while men might be stupid, and like big boobs, it’s still somewhat disturbing to see such a high-profile celebrity advocating plastic surgery as the best path to beauty – especially since there’s a fine line between tweaking one’s nose and sculpting your entire face over as if it were clay.
However, at least she has a sense of humor about it, as illustrated by her appearance in a car insurance commercial in which she slaps her hands to her face and exclaims “I can’t feel my face!”
If she’s going to be in a commercial, it might as well be one about car wrecks.
This one’s a no-brainer. Unless you’re a hermetic monk in the hills of Tibet, you undoubtedly witnessed Michael Jackson’s transformation from a young black man to a creepy white picture of crazy.
But in addition to changing the color of his skin, he also underwent extensive facial reconstruction surgery that reduced his nose to a nostril, raised his cheekbones to his eyebrows and gave him a generally skeletal look.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
What does $4,000,000 in plastic surgery look like? Jocelyn Wildenstein.
It’s a sad state of affairs when you rise to fame because of your extensive plastic surgery, but that’s the case with this uber-rich socialite who was crowned with the title of “World’s Scariest Celebrity” by the British tabloid Daily Mail. We may never know what was going through Jocelyn’s brain when she decided to run this plastic surgery marathon, nor may we ever know if a brain is even left inside that pile of wax she calls her head, but we can safely bet that she is one messed up woman.
