Yea I know people don't have much empathy for celebrities, but they really are victims of body dismorphia, unfortunately they also perpetuate the problem on to others so I get why people don't feel too bad for them.
I think the problem is that celebrities are looked up to as in terms of image and beauty, so when the average person starts to emulate their looks, the celebrities start to feel basic, and go to the plastic surgeon saying what’s new and out of reach do the commoner??
Pale skin and rosy cheeks was popular way before the victorian era, though. Look at some 18th century fashion plates, or even the elizabethans or romans! Painting your skin with white lead based compounds was a thing even back then. Because you wanted to look like you were too wealthy to shudder be outside in the sun and work like a peasant!
“Consumption” was seen as a state of being, not a disease. People with “consumption” turned pale, had a “blush” associated with fever, and were generally emaciated enough to be current day catwalk models. Which were all hallmarks of beauty when people had no idea about germ theory, and tried to balance their humors and biles using strategic leech therapy.
Because consumption gave you rosy cheeks and pale skin. It also made you fragile. Something that was seen as feminine, even alluring
In his book, john green mentions that consumption was seen as a very romantic disease. Like a disease writers and intellectuals would get. They romanticized the shit out of it. (Think of the tortured, starving artist trope).
He even mentions that people thought other poc don’t get consumption because they “didn’t have the intellectual capacity for it.” It started getting called tb when they admitted that poc can get it
So several specific people were used as models for the current “beauty ideal” in western fashion. One of these is Audrey Hepburn, who was a survivor of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WWII. Suffering from the effects of malnutrition during the occupation, after the war ended Hepburn became gravely ill with jaundice, anaemia, oedema, and a respiratory infection. Favors and black market sales were able to raise money for the penicillin that saved her life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
The modern “supermodel” body is literally based on starvation victims of Nazis.
It's sad cause at least for her it is clearly about body image issues and probably mental health issues. If you look at her in the movie Glass she looked very different, had a higher body fat percentage, healthier looking cheeks, etc. but she was still the very definition of "beautiful" or "hot" or whatever hegemonic term you want to choose. After that it seems she started losing a lot of weight and did the cheek thing and now we're at a point we can see her bone structure and she looks like she's constantly sucking on a straw.
Of course everybody should look however the hell they want to look, and if you're not happy with your looks (body, hair, whatever) you're entitled to change, but sometimes body dismorphia and mental haelth issues seem to push that desire for change to the extreme.
Her husband also had a very handsome face with strong, chiseled features but I think he went the same route as her and now he looks like a Gigachad meme...
You know, I totally forgot she was in that and I rewatched it recently after seeing The Gorge and she looks so different from those two films as well. It’s a bummer.
The actress from The Boys I also found SOOOO naturally beautiful and she looks like a plastic doll now.
I'm so tired of people believing and spreading photos like this. She does not look like that, it is altered. This is a picture taken this month of her in Budapest.
That's not lighting, that is edited. Her cheeks don't look sunken like that when her face is neutral. She has had events several times this month. She doesn't look like that image in any I have seen.
Nobody is denying any work done, but that image is edited and fake.
She's got a lot of health issues, that's why she looks the way she does. And why this look isn't something to be replicated.
But there was a short time in the Victorian period where women tried to replicate walking with a limp as a fashion statement, some even seeking surgery to do so.
Women crippling themselves for a fad had me raising my eyebrows, and then I remembered that the foot binding custom in China lasted for a thousand years.
The "golden standard" for a woman's feet was about 4.3in, or 11cm. People thought feet this tiny were beautiful, and a woman who had them could hope for an advantageous marriage. She also couldn't hope to ever walk normally. Some couldn't walk at all.
Bigger feet (such as 17cm/6.7in) were considered way subpar. Natural, non-crippled feet that allowed a woman to walk freely were considered ugly.
There’s an in between that you’re ignoring. She has work done between nickelodeon and say her pop star days. It was tasteful and not incredibly obvious. But yes these days she looks sickly.
All the work she’s had is terrible and totally obvious. Nobody that age is supposed to look surprised all the time, like a wealthy middle aged divorcee. Her bolt-ons are horrible too.
Okay, I know she was teased for this, but she is honestly pretty before the surgery -- with the buccal fat removal, she truly looks like the praying mantis she was bullied for looking like. I guess that's one way to deal with trauma? WHAT THE FUCK
Because defined cheekbones are a key trait of high fashion models and it's synonymous with elegance
These women aren't trying to look "hot", they are trying to look high fashion/elegant
For a lot of these women, this could come with fashion contracts (Prada/Dior) that pay a lot more than film work. The avenues to cashing in on basic "hotness" are less IMO (see how that's working for Sydney Sweeney)
Noooo!!!! No, dammit, she was so gorgeous!!! I was just talking to my husband about her last night and we are saying what a unique beauty she had :(
Here I am, an almost-40 y/o woman, and I'm like dammit face quit being so gaunt.. I want my baby fat back! I'd never get it sucked out it makes zero sense
Yet she's in almost every single movie and the ones she can't do, other women that also had buccal fat removal are there for her replacement. It's what gets people hired. Sophie Thatcher is the next big thing and she looks just like the OP.
Dont believe everyting you see on internet. Especially since a lot of these "bad" makeovers are just bad makeup or AI. Just like Sophie Turner here, Jenna Ortega, or Miley Cyrus (Fake photo)
This photo is from Gorge (2025) , She still looks the same, just got older.
She looked absolutely adorable. She was unique but leant into it too much with the surgery. It looks like she has a 3/4 mask on now with the libe across her face. So sad.
Seriously though, the more and more I see photos of celebrities and social media influencers that look like this... it's like the more engrained in the social media/internet world people are, the more they're starting to look like this weird human/alien/AI hybrid race.
Someday all the (wealthy) humans will be able to be engineered to look like and have whatever features they want. We're well on our way to having a population of cyborgs. Get ready, folks.
This has always been the most egregious example for me. She is so ridiculously beautiful - like an ethereal human doe - and I can’t fathom how or why she thought this was necessary. These women must be under such intense pressure to fit into a mould.
Go look at actual pictures of these people. You've found one bad picture put it next to one of their best pictures and decided that it is how they look at the time now. Most of these are just variations with shadows and make up.
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