too much, too young

Quite often I look in the mirror and see little imperfections I don’t like – perhaps a little line here or there, or a blemish or even a feature I wish resembled something more ‘perfect’. But, as time would have it, I don’t dwell. I figure if I can’t see it – it doesn’t exist. And no one (except my mother when I was a teenager) ever calls me up on things so I don’t care so much.

But I guess if I lived in LA, if I were on a reality TV show and had tabloid magazines writing about me then I might start to dwell a little too much on these little things. I might feel that rather than being pretty in an ‘all American’ way, I might want to resemble my favourite Barbie as a child. Or a Playboy playmate. I don’t know. I’m just trying to figure out what would make Heidi Montag get plastic surgery at the age of 23. I mean she hasn’t even existed long enough to feel the full force of pigmentation.

She says (and so does her surgeon Dr Frank Ryan, who is now defending himself from numerous colleagues who claim this was in fact extreme) that she just got some ‘minor tweaks’. It’s just that she got TEN tweaks all at once, that makes it a bit more than just a minor operation.

The list of tweaks are: minilift of the brow (guessing you need to be old with saggy lids to constitute a major lift of the brow), botox in her forehead, nose job revision (because she’s tweaked it once before), fat injections in the cheeks (actually doesn’t look any different in these photos but hey), chin reduction (they sawed it down… like chisled… like OUCH), neck liposuction (because her youthful neck was really fat), had her ears pinned back (so she could wear up-dos on the red carpet – no joke she said that), breast augmentation (I think they’re DDD now??) liposuction on waist and thighs and butt augmentation.

This took ten hours – ten for ten… and many other plastic surgeons say this was too much and too long to be under general anaesthetic and they prefer to keep their operations to four or five hours.

I don’t personally have anything against plastic surgery – I think it’s great especially for those who really do have great honkers of a nose and want to make it more refined. I think Ashley Simpson looks great for getting her nose done. Not sure if I would do it… but I do think plastic surgery is good in moderation, it’s a great thing. A positive thing.

I think it’s especially good when you still end up looking like an individual – like yourself. Not like a plastic version of the perceived whatever. I think what creeps me out so much about what Heidi has done (or Franken-Heidi as Perez called her) is that she doesn’t look like herself. She doesn’t look real. Fembot? Stepford Wife?

What do you think? Loving or hating her new face? Would you do it? Do you think it’s all just shameless PR to promote her album? Or just that she wanted to look the best she could for a music debut?

Tamsin xo