Sunday, June 19, 2011

Even With Her Lips, You Will Never Be Her

DR. TONY YOUN, a plastic surgeon who's been featured on "Dr. 90210," tells MSNBC that while many of his patients come to him for, say, Ashlee Simpson's nose or Beyonce's rear end, body parts typically look best on the original owner. Youn, who writes a blog about celebrity cosmetic surgery, says many everyday Joes and Janes wanting to look like Brad and Angelina suffer from body dysmorphic disorder, in which person is obsessed with his or her appearance and typically sees him or herself completely differently than others do. Writes Youn: "To a person with BDD, a small bump on the nose appears to be the size of a melon. These troubled individuals undergo multiple plastic surgeries in misguided attempts to correct deformities that don’t exist. People who suffer from BDD sometimes define physical perfection in terms of a celebrity whose photo they bring to a plastic surgeon’s office. They’re never happy until, in their minds, they look exactly like that celeb." Speaking of Brad and Angelina, they happen, unsurprisingly, to be the stars men and women say they'd most like to be surgically altered to look like, according to International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. Funny, we would have figured Joe Pesci and Dr. Laura.

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