I personally (you know, IMHO) think this lip puffing trend is just repulsive. I was flipping channels the other night and happened upon a show that had Heidi Fleiss on it. She was never what I’d call a stunning knockout, but her upper lip was so swollen I thought the story was going to be that she got punched out. Nope, rehab. Her lip wasn’t the reason she was on the show, but she looked horrible (aside from the usual looking horrible because you are strung out and need rehab horrible).
Meg Ryan used to be cute, now she looks like somebody clocked her in the kisser.
It has to be a self-image disorder like the women who are all skin and bones and think they still look fat, or that little girl who thought that steel hooks looked so cool she wanted to have her hands amputated so she could get robotic appendages.
Absolutely. I have a lot more sympathy for people who go in just wanting a little lift or something, and come out disfigured. I’m not a big fan or supporter of plastic surgery, but it shouldn’t disfigure you. I really don’t know where these women fit in that; I have no idea if they are actually happy with their results, or they’re going out in public, putting the best face on what has happened to them (no pun intended).
I think you’re right. Lisa Rinna’s a great example of this - she was once a beautiful woman with normal lips. There doesn’t seem to be much they can do after you/they wreck your lips.
Dixie Carter has a natural beauty that just needed a touch up. She hasn’t really aged or changed her look (which is classic) in the last forty years. She has great bones!
Those aren’t bones, they’re cheek implants. But her eyeborws and forehead still move, and she looks human. She’s had work done, but she doesn’t look bad. She’s always been upfront about having had cosmetic surgery. Which is a nice change.
I couldn’t get this link to work, but I don’t need to.
I belong to a local women’s club, where they showed the remake of “The Women” for a movie night last year. That was the first time I saw Meg Ryan’s revised face. To me it was so obvious that it looked bad, at first I actually wondered if, for that movie, they had simply made her up to LOOK like she’d had plastic surgery. After all, since her character was a wealthy woman worried about losing her husband to a younger woman. So out loud I asked, “Wow, is that how Meg Ryan really looks now?” And one of the older women in the club responded, in all seriousness, “Yes, doesn’t she look GREAT?”
I decided to say nothing further.
