Obviously this is gross on multiple levels, but I can’t help but also find it funny that she’s also really bad at this - in her 'shopped image, she clearly altered Natalia Dyer’s skull shape, not something that one can manage with fillers and other injections… (And altered her to look like other actresses. God forbid an actress gets to look like… herself. *) There are all these layers of “WTF!?” going on here.
*Unless she’s really famous, in which case everyone should be altered to look like her, of course.
This part is especially crazy. Actors with famous faces don’t get recognized for the traits that make them look generically attractive, they get recognized for the things that make them distinct.
Masseters are some of the primary muscles of mastication. You need those. The TMJ is a balancing act, weakening part of it for someone else’s aesthetic shouldn’t be done lightly. Especially if part of your trade involves conveying emotion and speaking.
Yeah, Marilyn Monroe famously accentuated her mole with makeup. And anyone who would suggest that a face like that could be improved with cosmetic surgery can go straight to hell.
I don’t care much for the character of ‘Nancy Wheeler,’ but I think the actress who portrays her is utterly striking; and her unusually angular jawline is something that makes her unique.
She should change nothing and go on living her best life, IMO.
How many people—especially young women—have experienced self esteem issues, depression, anxiety and other problems because they are constantly being reminded that they don’t meet some arbitrary social standard for “beauty?”
This video is not just hurtful to the subject whose face is being scrutinized and objectified. The video also sends a message to young women that even if they are as conventionally attractive as this beautiful Hollywood star, that’s still not good enough.
It’s one thing when someone seeks out a professional for a service that they actively want for themselves; it’s wholly another when that professional gets on a public platform and offers unsolicited ‘advice’ to someone who wasn’t even checking for them in the first place.
The cynic in me wonders if she did it for the negative attention.
Also: IMO, the ‘advanced injector’ looked more aesthetically pleasing before she had the unnecessary surgery done on herself.
For years a bald friend of mine used to date a woman who worked at a hair transplant center. Her job was to help do the surgical hair plugs for paying customers who wanted hair moved from one part of their body to another. Not the job I would choose, but whatever. She never pressured my friend to do the procedure himself or suggested that he’d look better with more hair up top. She recognized that her job was to do the thing people were asking her to do, not give random people (or even boyfriends) unsolicited advice about undergoing surgical procedures in order to make themselves more attractive in her eyes.
So, it would be okay to slap the face of an actor on the body of a porn star doing their job, just because “they put their face out there”? Because someone chooses to act for a living, they no longer have any rights to privacy?
That’s a trap. You’re blaming an industry that was created out of those anxieties, not a set of anxieties that were created by the industry.
Of course those problems are now perpetuated and amplified by the industry. But you won’t cure that anxiety by stopping cosmetic surgery – its roots lie elsewhere in society.
Are you saying that women being anxious about our looks are to blame for this industry? That if we cared less about our looks this wouldn’t be a thing?
Am I the only one who finds it creepy the way she says “If I were Natalia’s injector”? As if this were just another everyday service in our lives. My barber…my gardener…my therapist…my injector. Everyone should have one!
I don’t believe this particular woman should be held to account for the actions of the entire cosmetic surgery industry. I do believe she should be held to account for her own words and actions.
There is no universe in which this unsolicited cosmetic surgery advice would be appropriate, tactful or healthy for the self esteem of women in general. And despite your continued insistence otherwise unsolicited surgical advice is not part of her job.
And he could probably sue for that, except that parody is a protected form of speech, unlike what you’re discussing. It doesn’t follow that actors have no rights to control their image publicly. The problem is celebrity culture, not acting. They are still human beings, who are generally NOT involved in politics, or trying to overthrow the country.
I doubt it was women who built the industry or who have primarily benefited from it either. Like almost all other industries, it was dominated by white men for their benefit. The entire film industry was shaped for the male gaze. And that trickled down to how most women are expected to look. In modern times, it is often industry driving cultural ideas about looks, not the other way around.
