IMO …
They often want an unrealistic degree of improvement or change. PS can’t really make a 60yo look 20. It can make them look 50. But for people with lots of money and ego and maybe not a lot of sense, 50 isn’t good enough. So they shop for docs until they find one willing to tell them what they want to hear.
And of course if thousands of celebrities & aging trophy wives get heavy PS, we only need a small percentage of those to go truly bad for there to be enough to supply a website with fodder for comment.
IIRC from that site …
A lot of the problems aren’t the first surgery; it’s the 12th. Eventually cartilage breaks down, doesn’t heal properly, the implants morph in shape or shift within the increasing mix of scar tissue vs real tissue, and well, then “stuff happens”. The outcome becomes less and less predictable. Michael Jackson’s nose more or less melted ff his face by the end; there was no real meat to attach anything to.
There was also a psychological element. Once folks got a good result when e.g. 50 and reset to look 40, now at 60 they want to be reset to 30. Or they develop an expectation that every 5 years they can just push the reset button and return to where they were. So at 50 reset to 45. Then at 55 reset to 45. Then at 60 reset to 45. Then at 65 reset to 45. After all, each time they’re only looking to return to how they looked 5 years ago.
As a simple fact of the natural aging process, it takes ever larger doses of PS to achieve a given amount of rejuvenation. Increased dosing for decreasing response sounds exactly like a recipe for addition. Mental stability and resistance to addictive behavior are not strong suits for many celebs.
Definitely Roger Daltrey. I can recognize his voice still but looks wise? Not at all. He even seems shorter–was he always short but just acted tall or what?
Michael O’Keefe, who played Danny Noonan in Caddyshack looks very different in his adult roles. He was in an episode of Law & Order playing twins, and neither one of them looked like Danny. He’s older, of course, but he was 25 when Caddyshack came out, so certainly not a child star who still had to grow up.
For the record, O’Keefe has played 7 different roles on the various L&O series. He’s one of the great “repeat offenders”. And I agree with you.
Another, similar example is character actor Bruce McGill. I had a hard time believing that lean, mean D-Day from Animal House had transformed into round-faced Jack Dalton on MacGyver in under a decade.
John Cullum who played Edward Rutledge in “1776” and looked like this 1776 - Molasses To Rum - YouTube has been playing roles like Mark Green’s father on ER and the grandfather on the Middle, and looks quite different (see here) - different enough that I was really startled to learn they were the same person.
Yeah, I always thought she looked better on Modern Family than she did in Happy Gilmore. She has a new reunion with Sandler in a dumb Netflix movie called “Hubie Halloween” where she still looks great, IMO.
That’s my point though- people getting older and fatter doesn’t really count in my book as changing their looks drastically. Or really for that matter, going from a chubby nerdy kid to an attractive adult.
Doohan had battles off and on with alcohol which can put some wear and tear on a body. He also served in the military and was part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which made him a bit older than some of the rest of the cast which might also be part of the reason he seemed at age quicker - he wasn’t aging quicker, he just started older, about 10-11 years older than Shatner and Nimony. DeForest Kelly was also born in 1920, like Doohan, and also looked older than the rest. When he played a 120 year old version of Dr. McCoy I could believe he was 120 cause, yeah, he looked ancient.
Speaking of Star Trek - William Shatner sure looks different than he did in the 1960’s Some of that is just plain putting on weight, but he does look quite a bit different these days.
He had to have his lower eye lids done. In Spy Game they were very noticeable and then poof they were gone.
As an aside: I’ve heard in the past, that plastic surgeons will “over correct” in many cases because they know how it will “settle”. You’ll see a celeb on the cover of a magazine with a sensational headline about botched plastic surgery. 6 months later they look fine and you almost forget they had it.
I think Stan Lee counts as an actor; he appeared in many of the highest-grossing films over the last decade or so of his life.
He looked completely different way back when he started work at Timely.
