One of the stars of “The Hills”, the hit reality show with other reality stars – if that’s what you can call them – Spencer Pratt, her irritating husband, Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge, has really gone overboard on getting plastic surgery procedures to meet what she thinks is the beauty ideal that is forced on women in the Hollywood entertainment industry.
Do I smell the next Joan Rivers on the front? She’d better be careful, or she may end up looking like some alien version of herself like other plastic surgery addicts in the business such as the “Cat Lady” who literally looks like a cat now and other victims of bad plastic surgery or simply overdoing it, Priscilla Presley, whose formerly gorgeous face has been marred by a botched filler job, and Joan Van Arc, whose waxen, frozen appearance leaves one feeling sorry for her rather than astounded by her newfound youthful look.
I feel really bad for women, or men, who go overboard in this area, because it almost seems like they really don’t like themselves and are trying to alter their very existence into something that is completely different than what they were born with. The results are often devastating and can have serious mental health implications. Heidi Montag seems to be headed down this path, and I don’t know if she’s considered this, but excessive nipping and tucking never lead anyone to a successful career, but likability and perseverence have.
At least Ms. Montag, or shall I say Pratt, is willing to talk about her obsession with the knife and has admitted to it, and her before and after pictures aren’t horrendous, but I can’t help but wonder when she will morph into something that is totally unnatural looking, since you know that’s what happens to women who are addicted to procedures. I’ve never seen any of them stop doing it, and eventually, they just start to look bad. Hopefully she doesn’t go down that path, but from what it sounds like, she isn’t planning on stopping these procedures any time soon.
Heidi’s story is one of caution to those of us that start to pick on every little thing about our appearance. You have to, at a certain point, embrace your features. Sure, there are a few things we all want to change about our appearance, but going under the knife to correct it all will leave you not only bankrupt, but with a void you can never seem to fill, and unhappiness.