C'est La Vie

 

I used to love watching this show.  Hearing Lauren Conrad’s voice.. the song in the beginning, the palm trees, the Hollywood sign..what’s not to love?  It was so cool to see these girls living a life that many girls including myself would want to live.  Lauren came from a well off family, was going to fashion school, working for Teen Vogue, partying, living in a big city, was pursuing her dream, and had cute boys as friends and even cuter clothes…it was the dream life.  She was likeable, relatable, she cared about her friends, she was down to earth, she made mistakes (yes, she will always be remembered as the girl who didn’t go to Paris) and she was losing her friend to a smarmy guy and couldn’t do anything about it.  It was electrifying television I tell you.  It was a show full of promises, it was youthful, and it was fresh.  As I sat down to watch the first episode of the final season the other day, I felt sick watching it.. where did it all go so wrong?

Why did I feel sick?  It kind of reminds me of this poem from the beginning of one of the best books ever: The Valley of the Dolls

You've got to climb to the top of Mount Everest
to reach the Valley of the Dolls.
It's a brutal climb to reach that peak,
which so few have seen.
You never knew what was really up there,
but the last thing you expected to find
was the Valley of the Dolls.
You stand there, waiting for
the rush of exhilaration
you thought you'd feel - but
it doesn't come.
You're too far away to hear the applause
and take your bows.
And there's no place left to climb.
You're alone, and
the feeling of loneliness is overpowering.
The air is so thin you can scarcely breathe.
You've made it - and the world says
you're a hero.
But it was more fun at the bottom
when you started,
with nothing more than hope and
the dream of fulfillment.
All you saw was the top of that mountain -
there was no one to tell you
about the Valley of the DOlls.
But it's different
when you reach the summit.
The elements have left you battered,
deafened, sightless - and too weary
to enjoy your victory.
- Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

I felt sick watching it because of Heidi Montag.  She started off as a sweet girl, full of spunk and brimming with confidence.  She looked fresh faced and cute… Now, she’s a completely different person!  The allure of fame and living in LA has ruined her.  How is it good television to see someone fall apart?  I’ll admit it’s morbidly fascinating, and while that may help ratings, it leaves one with a bitter aftertaste in their mouth and that’s not good.  I just kept shaking my head in sadness and pity when I saw Heidi and her mom having their conversation in Heidi’s hometown.  I feel so bad for Heidi’s mom it’s crazy.  I can’t imagine how she feels, to see her daughter change so rapidly over just a few years and morph into someone who has succumbed to the pressures of living in LA.  It’s a horror story.  The Hills is supposed to resemble a fairy tale, not a horror story!  It’s become something that I would imagine a parent would show a child if the child said they want to become famous.  “Do you want to turn out like Heidi Montag?  Look what happened to her…it’s an evil world out there kiddo”
The episode really made me sick, Heidi’s plastic surgery nightmare, seeing her mom’s pain and sadness (I DO NOTTT WANT TO SEE A MOMMY CRYING ON TV! IT’S JUST TOO SAD!), watching Kristen do shot after shot, drug abuse accusations… it was too much I was cringing the whole way through the show.  I think to have fame and to go for a dream and enter a world that is cut throat, you need to be strong, level headed and grounded or you’ll just get chewed up and spit out.  Heidi got screwed and it truly is sad to watch.  The show used to have a point, it was about a girl pursuing her dream.  There is no point to the show anymore other than to watch all their lives derail. 

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So below are a bunch of pics I got off sites like www.plasticdesis.com and others.. these young lads and ladies are rumoured to have undergone plastic surgery. It’s pretty hard to tell because pictures are often photoshopped as it is but here they are.. make your own decision! I think they were all beautiful before and after!!!!!!!
Apparently The Most Beautiful Woman in the World Aishwarya Rai had her smile fixed - dental work and lately she’s been rumoured to have had botox injections but regardless, that doesn’t really count because she’s like 30 something now and her features have been the same it’s more a matter of general upkeep! I heart her.
My biggest heartbreak was when I found out that most of the South American pageant queens have had extensive plastic surgery(actually most contestants in general but I always found the South American ones some of the prettiest in the pageant so it was a bigger heartbreak for me). All big time beauty pageants have plastic surgeons on board, and as winning the crown (Miss Universe for example) is considered a huge, huge honour for many countries and competition is fierce… plastic surgery is highly recommended, if not necessary for the entrants.
Now, I’m not one of those jealous girls who say “that chick is so ugly without makeup” or “that girl is only pretty because of plastic surgery”. I strongly believe that most girls need to have a good base in order for their surgery to be successful. It is usually the minor tweaks that get the best results, so a good base is essential. I don’t think girls need plastic surgery at all but it’s definitely a personal choice. One one hand you can look at the girl who got plastic surgery and say “wow, you are so vain to care so much about your appearance that you would have surgery!” OR you could say “wow, you clearly aren’t vain at all because to further your career you didn’t even mind changing your face and having surgery.”. Most girls get surgery because they are told that it will further their career - as a model, as an actress, as a news anchor, etc. If I was told that the only thing holding me back from being the next (female) Anderson Cooper was a nose job, I think I would do it (get the nose job). I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn’t take that opportunity for myself and for my family. What’s in your appearance anyway, I’d still be me! Of course it sucks that I wouldn’t be accepted the way I am (hypothetically speaking) and of course it would suck to look in the mirror everyday and not see the REAL me, because I love the way I am now, but I think I would rather accomplish my dreams and be happy.. because I would totally, totally love to have his job, than be so vain as to not take up an opportunity because I was letting my love for my appearance colour my dreams. I know it’s all a little backwards but I think I gave a good scenario so hopefully you understand. You see, the problem isn’t that a girl would choose to do plastic surgery to further her career, the problem is that getting plastic surgery actually does further that person’s career!
Let’s check out some celebrities who are RUMOURED to have had plastic surgery.

Zac Efron for one..He LOOKS like he’s had the bridge of his nose narrowed and more defined and the tip of his nose narrowed as well. The rest of him looks about the same… I’m sure the bronzer is helping to define his cheekbones and make his face look chiselled and part of it is probably just puberty! Would he be as big of a star if he remained the guy on the left? Probably not! Maybe for 12 year olds the sweet dude on the left was ok, but Zac has now definitely broadened his appeal to include ladies (and men) of all ages.

Heidi Montag from the Hills is strongly, strongly rumoured to have had a nose job and I would say she’s admitted to it but I’m too lazy to search for a reliable source so let’s just let the pictures do the talking. . ok well in my opinion.. she looks cute before, and her old nose was fine..


One of my favourites.. Ashley Simpson! Her nose job was confirmed by her father Joe Simpson who claimed that she got the nose job to help with her breathing. Right, that’s what they all say. Looks to me like she had her chin shaved down a little as well but no reports on that as of yet. Why is this one one of my favourites? Simple, it’s because she went from looking like Ashley Simpson, to looking like a regular, cookie cutter Barbie doll run of the mill blonde girl from California. Sure, she’s hotter now, but it’s really such a pity.



Now Tyra Banks …one of my favourite models of all time (!!!) is also rumoured to have had a nose job. She’s proven that her boobs are real (God bless her!) but has never talked about the rumoured nose job. Sometimes it looks like a case of clever makeup, but sometimes it’s like whoa nose job. Who knows, or should I say who nose?

Camilla Belle.. this chick is a total hottie and completely underrated in the hotness department. If it is a nose job it’s nicely done. The original shape is pretty much maintained, it looks like she’s done something that is very popular nowadays in the plastic surgery world and that is just getting a smaller version of your nose to make it look more natural. That being said the tip of her nose looks a little narrower than in the before picture. Gorgeous before and after but the tan definitely helps this woman out.

Gisele Bundchen or Gisele Bundchen Brady whatever her name is now… let’s JUST talk about the noses for all the Victoria Secret models shall we ‘cause otherwise we’ll be here forever! The bridge of her nose looks narrower, the overall look more streamlined, all bumps appear to be removed. Would she have been as famous as she is now if she currently looked like the girl in the bottom left picture? I think so! End result – so freaking hot.



Miss World Priyanka Chopra. Besides an obvious change in her makeup and the addition of coloured contact lenses (*lame because she wears them all the time and supposedly even has eye problems now because of it!*) her nose looks much, much smaller. She used to have a rather bulbous tip that was slightly off center and that looks fixed now as well as the bridge of the nose (narrower).

Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson also is rumoured to have had a nose job and to me it really looks like she’s had some cheek implants or fillers to give her face a bit more contour and definition. The tip of her nose looks to be about the same, it wasn’t a bad nose to begin with, but yea..smoothened and narrower bridge.
(this pic looks like a mirror image of the one below, you can tell by the eyebrow/nose. The nose is slanted to the left in the pic above and to the right in the pic below but in both the nose is slanted to the brow that is less arched and lower).

Voila.
I don’t know to say about Katrina Kaif She just looks different to me now, I don’t know what it is. Her jaw looks narrower, more feminine and a little bit more defined than in the before pictures. Her nose has lost the slant and has more definition in the tip which helps a GREAT deal. Not much else to say on her.. Camilla Belle and her kind of look alike. Both are cute :)

Blake Lively I was shocked at this one really. I thought she was naturally this pretty but the pictures seem to point to something other than natural beauty. The “new” nose looks shorter, doesn’t droop downwards, is straighter and free of bumps and has a very defined bridge and tip which was lacking in the previous pictures. In all other aspects as well she’s def been given the A list makeover imo.. various laser and chemical peels and treatments for the skin and some awesome makeup. Her hair always looks super gorgeous – I suspect extensions. Other than that she looks natural, am glad I don’t see a fish pout on her.

Who is she you ask? Minissha Lamba. Ok, I guess that didn’t clear up much.. she’s an actress albeit not a very famous one. She looks less “Indian” and a lot sexier (the two – looking less Indian and looking sexier are not related at all just two separate facts that I happened to notice) in the bottom right picture but she looks cuter and more human/less alien in the top right. Pictures courtesy of a site called plasticdesis.com

Rani Mukherjee, everyone’s favourite husky voiced, talented actress. She had a pretty awesome nose before but it appears narrower and more generic now. I think it makes the rest of her face look wider…her cheeks look quite big compared to her nose in the bottom right picture. Once you mess with one thing it changes the proportions and look of everything else. Lucky for her she has big eyes and big lips so it saves her proportions a little bit. She can act so I love her.. and her eyes are just amazing.. goodness.

Shilpa Shetty. Obvious. Old nose job where they basically gave you a generic “perfect” nose without caring what your face shape was like. I think it’s too pinched. She’s still cute in the top left pic.



I CANNOT BELIEVEEEEEEEE THE FIRST PIC OF HER!!! LOL WOW! Sridevi Sridevi Sridevi.. I had no idea you looked like that! Thank God for surgeons? She looks beautiful in the after pictures.



Kareena Kapoor. She’s pretty dang gorgeous without makeup. Like, stunning! Anyway, I would say – nose job and jaw surgery. I think her jaw looks completely different, it’s so defined and angular now whereas before it didn’t have that strong L shape, more of a U. Re: her nose…the tip of the nose is the biggest difference. Everything else looks ok/pretty much the same

Megan Fox. What a babe. Rumoured to have had an injectable filler popped in her nose to get rid of the bump. Don’t know what else she’s rumoured to have had but…quite a few I’m guessing to go from 12 year old to the world’s hottest woman.

Preity Zinta !!!!!!!! Absolutely adore her, she’s such a sweetheart! Her nose looks different for sure, narrower and more defined (the usual) . She’s been rumoured to have eye surgery and a brown surgery before the shooting of Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK)
That’s all for now folks.. check out some interesting articles on plastic surgery in the pageant world and training for being in a pageant:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-12-30-venezuela-beauty_x.htm
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/04/express/venezuela
http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue143/beauties.htm
Send me your thoughts on the pictures or send me more pics of celebs and I’ll try and feature them! Keep watching this space for updates!

The girl in the white top is hot, the girl with the blue contacts is just scaring me and the girl with the painting/drawing of herself is cute as a button, with big brown eyes and all..but the thing is she looks remarkably like those anime cartoons.. you know.. kind of like the girl in her drawing!  I mean, I can't tell if that's a self portrait or a cartoonized version of her, but I guess it’s both since she looks like a cartoon.  It's the Sailor Moon look! Apparently looking like this is a great thing though and is really attractive in South East Asia!  Young girls and guys are using plastic surgery and contact lenses called "circle lenses", which is what all the girls above are wearing to achieve this look.

Circle contact lenses are basically regular contact lenses, but they give the effect of an enlarged pupil and a bigger iris, as they have an extra ring of colour to make your eyes look bigger.  I don't have a problem per se with contact lenses or coloured contact lenses but I do have a problem with getting plastic surgery to make yourself look like a cartoon because it happens to be the "in" thing at the moment.  Unfortunately, I can’t comment on the girls above as I have no idea if they have had plastic surgery done, but they did have their pictures posted and talked about how they were wearing circle lenses, so that part is confirmed.  With contacts, sure, it's fun to wear them sometimes and change up your look - who wouldn't want to be able to have limpid brown eyes one night and sparkling baby blue's the next?  I've tried coloured contact lenses before and I totally would get some again if I wasn't so paranoid about ruining my eyes.  I wouldn't however wear them all the time or get contacts that are so obviously fake.  I think coloured contact lenses should be treated somewhat like makeup.  Someone (usually in the case of men because girls do tend to notice things like makeup) should look at you and say "wow you have really nice eyes", not think "omg that girl wears a lot of eye shadow".  Likewise with contact lenses, I feel that they should look somewhat natural.  For the unfortunate girl above with the blue contacts, they do not look natural.  In fact, when you look at that girl, I bet the first thing that pops out at you are her contact lenses.  I just don't understand why anyone would want that to be the case!  

Side story: The other day I was coming home from school and I saw this really pretty girl while waiting for the Skytrain with what looked like a fur coat instead of eyelashes.  Literally, she didn’t have eyelashes she had a fur coat for her eyes.  Semi-fake-nice person that I was, I asked her, “wow I love your eyelashes, are they real?” and she responded with, “oh no, they’re from Shoppers Drug Mart, this Quo brand, I stack them though”, giggles, “I put three on each eye.”  My eyes went 8-| I said “WHAT you wear three on each eye?!”  She said, “yeah, everyday”.  I honestly, don’t understand why anyone would wake up every day in the morning and put three pairs of fake eyelashes on each eye.  Seriously, most of these girls need an intervention.  Their eyes are beautiful the way they are, the shape of it, the monolid, everything!  Of course, girls all around the world have complexes and each culture or race has their own issues.  I guess I just wish we could all be happy the way we are.