# Celebrities physical deformties - Are these all real? Some seem over the top **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013 "2010-07-17T08:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/81 "2010-07-20T22:05:43Z")
Forest Whitaker’s crazy left eye, > [@](#): > > … [Whitaker’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Whitaker#Personal_life) left eye [ptosis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptosis_%28eyelid%29) {sometimes called “lazy eye”, but that term normally refers to [[COLOR=“DarkRed”]amblyopia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopia)}[/COLOR] has been called “intriguing” by some critics and “gives him a sleepy, contemplative look.” Whitaker has explained that the condition is hereditary and that he has considered having surgery to correct it, not for cosmetic reasons but because it affects his vision.[RIGHT]{DarkRed}= **CMC** [/RIGHT] CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/82 "2010-07-21T11:07:05Z")
Rick Allen, the Def Leppard drummer, only has one arm. Adam Hills, the host of Spicks and Specks (Australian music quiz show) was born without a foot. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/83 "2010-07-21T11:56:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > From what I can tell, being something of an anglophile myself, he was generally dismissed as a bit of a nob-head, which grew via comedians and radio DJs poking fun at him, until he was just a common target for active dislike. Much like Noel Edmonds. > > He also hosted a [practical joke show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpo2jzhf5A), which is generally considered low rent comedy and, in my opinion, kind of cruel, which just adds fuel to the fire. That’s pretty much spot on - ‘Beadle’s About’ involved candid-camera gags, like pretending to people that their car had been crushed into scrap while they’d popped down the shops or something, and only after several minutes of fury, grief and tears on the part of the victim did Beadle sidle up in a deliberately poor disguise and hang aorund until they realised that it was the beardy weasel himself. He started to redeem himself by becoming a sort of celebrity quiz-setter in his later years, but just as he was succeeeding, died. Last laugh’s on you, Beadle!! ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/84 "2010-07-21T18:40:58Z")
Jim Abbott only used one hand when playing baseball. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/85 "2010-07-21T19:31:01Z")
I think Long Dong Silver’s physical deformity is fairly well documented, at any rate . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/86 "2010-07-21T19:34:56Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I once saw an ad with Martha Stewart where she clearly had 6 toes on one foot, but I never heard anything about it again. I don’t know if it was a hoax or not. Obligatory \*Buffy \*quote: > [@Buffy The Vampire Slayer](#): > > \*\* > Cordelia\*\*: When did you become Martha Stewart? > > **Buffy** : First of all, Martha Stewart knows jack about hand-cut prosciutto. > \*\* > Xander\*\*: I don’t believe she slays, either. > \*\* > Oz\*\*: Oh, I hear she can, but she doesn’t like to. Clearly, MS is some sort of six-towed demon. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/87 "2010-07-21T21:29:55Z")
I dated a guy who had six nipples. Two normal, two almost normal, then two ‘shadow nipples’ lined up under them. He always joked about getting the top four pierced. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/88 "2010-07-21T22:36:56Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It looks like both of them have a serious case of concentration camp victim going on. Grace Park and Lucy Lawless are certainly slim, but they aren’t THAT skinny. That picture was heavily photoshopped. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/89 "2010-07-21T23:44:56Z")
Having introduced Jeremy Beadle into the thread, I suppose I should comment … By all accounts he was a nice and clever man, who certainly seems to be remembered by those who knew him with affection. For whatever reason, his television career was marked by pretty low brow stuff. Those who watched his shows - and I saw enough of them myself back in the day - evidently tended to enjoy them, but probably also tended to see him as a rather cruel figure. The guy who does the nasty reveal at the end of the gag. Those who didn’t watch him just dismissed him. Though it’s not as if his fellow _Game For A Laugh_ hosts ever really wormed their way into public affection. _Going For Gold_ as a student daytime joke, a regular Radio 2 gig (? - I really don’t know) and a paedophillia allegation followed by critical acclaim on stage. Beadle may well have done the best of them. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/90 "2010-07-22T00:22:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Grace Park and Lucy Lawless are certainly slim, but they aren’t THAT skinny. That picture was heavily photoshopped. I was thinking they’d photoshopped the ass _onto_ Grace Park, because she’s that skinny. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/91 "2010-07-22T01:27:50Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > It was probably the acid. Beat me to it! Some of those look so fake. I mean, I know Seal has scars, and after some ad controversy, Megan Fox’s thumb has received some attention, but I have a hard time believing Denzel’s pinkie is really that deformed. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/92 "2010-07-24T12:16:40Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > Adam Hills, the host of Spicks and Specks (Australian music quiz show) was born without a foot. He was also missing an ear. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/93 "2010-07-24T15:33:45Z")
What? Since when? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/94 "2010-07-24T15:45:39Z")
Well regardless of Grace Park’s skinniness or non-skinniness, [here is another pic](http://snarkerati.com/galleries/Grace-Park/0050-Grace-Park.jpg) that shows she definitely has the _pectus excavatum_ thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/95 "2010-07-24T15:58:35Z")
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has a deformed [right pinky finger](http://gryphonscry.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/jethrotull.jpg). Only very late in his career did he train himself to use that finger to achieve the classically correct flute fingerings. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/96 "2010-07-24T16:26:49Z")
John Denver was missing a few toes…as far as I know, the lawnmower was uninjured. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013/97 "2010-07-24T22:56:59Z")
Trace Adkins is another musician with a deformed finger, in his case a left pinkie finger that was torn off in a on-the-job accident (oil work, not music) and reattached. He has also had his nose partially severed (auto accident in his youth), and was shot in the heart and lungs by his second wife (who, needless to say, is now an ex). He’s put a lot of mileage on his body. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-physical-deformties-are-these-all-real-some-seem-over-the-top/547013.md?page=4)