Skinny Barbie

Skinny Barbie

What's with all the celebrities getting breast implants?  For another matter, why do they think they need to be so skinny?  It's crazy looking.  There's all these skin and bones actresses with HUGE boobs.  I personally think that breast implants only look good when they are put in behind the pectoral muscle...a la Catherine Zeta Jones.  When they are placed in front, they look like inflated balloons...a la Jenna Jameson.  The whole thing is ridiculous though.

We're heading towards this ridiculous beauty standard that is actually more amusing than desirable.  I mean nobody wants to be that skinny...well, nobody who is mentally balanced does. 

I think the problem with Hollywood is that we only see the beauty.  We don't see nearly enough of the aging.  I think that as we see more and more stars who started out "beautiful" turn into hideous freaks because of their surgeries, the more we can begin to realize that there is no fighting the aging process and the most dignified thing to do is accept it and take care of yourself in the process.  I mean think about it, when was the last time you saw Burt Reynolds or Loni Anderson in the full light of day...or for that matter, Elizabeth Taylor?  As these stars age, their plastic surgeries cause them to ultimately look like carachatures of their former selves.  It's actually really sad.  They would look better as old people if they just aged properly, but after being stretched and snipped and moulded, they just look really bad...like some crazy cosmetics experiment gone horribly wrong.

I think that if we saw more and more of the aging of Hollywood we'd realize that these people turn out to be WAY more hideous in the end than any of us "normal" people do.  Old people have a quiet dignity and peacefulness.  They have kindness and wisdom in their faces.  Old celebrities look inhuman.  Their liplines are flattened by collagen and their eyelids are angled more and more tightly until they don't even look human...many end up looking like cats...or fish!

The average life of fame for a celebrity (I'm guessing) is probably about ten to fifteen years maximum and then we don't really hear from them unless they're superb, like Meryll Streep or Jack Nicholson.  Aside from the true A list celebrities, all the others seem to disappear.  Why does this happen?  Because there is no demand for bizarre-faced old weirdos from ages past to be on film...and so they go back to their homes in middle America and we never hear from them again until they die. 

So for the fifteen years that they are in the public eye, celebrities want to remain as beautiful as possible so they cut, scrape, reshape, implant, inject and fight to keep it all looking "the same".  The problem is that they need to age with their bodies so they don't look like someone desperately clinging to their long-lost youth.  That can only happen if they've only done minimal surgery...like Meryll Streep and Jack Nicholson.   They've presumably had some tightening done, but we are aware of their aging.

I can't help but wonder what this latest round of celebrities with their size 0 clothing and their DDD chests are going to look like as old people...I shudder.  Many will look like skeletons with giant inflated boobs like some kind of gender-bending crypt-keeper.  It should make them easy to spot in the old age homes!