Heidi Montag missed this memo from Hollywood

The big problem with altering your body according to fashion is that fashion changes. And Hollywood is fickle. Having perpetuated the big-lipped, big-boobed sex bomb look for a while now, someone, somewhere has realised this was perhaps a mistake. DO YA THINK?

Mamamia reader and top knowledge contributor Julie Cowdroy writes:

A few months ago, 23 year-old Heidi Montag, star of The Hills, underwent the knife to get ten plastic surgery procedures all at once.

She gave a speech about how, you know, “everyone in Hollywood is doing it, they just, you know, don’t talk about it and like, at least I’m admitting it. But I’m a bit disappointed because I wanted a size H for Heidi, but only got, like a triple D.” (May or may not be paraphrased).

Well, Mrs Spencer Pratt, hold the phone.

Put the bleach away and delete your plastic surgeon from your speed dial. Then make like Sharon Osbourne and get ready to give your silicon implants to your hubby to use as paperweights . The rules are changing. Hollywood casting directors and agents, as it turns out, are keepin’ it real. Laura Holson writes in the NY Times:

“It took years for Hollywood to create the perfect woman. Now it wants the old one back.

In small but significant numbers, filmmakers and casting executives are beginning to re-examine Hollywood’s attitude toward breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all manner of plastic surgery.

Television executives at Fox Broadcasting, for example, say they have begun recruiting more natural looking actors from Australia and Britain because the amply endowed, freakishly young-looking crowd that shows up for auditions in Los Angeles suffers from too much sameness.

“I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper,” said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox’s scripted shows.

The move toward “less is more” is being propelled by a series of colliding social and technological trends, more than a dozen film and television professionals said.

Botox is the enemy in a post-“Avatar,” 3-D infatuated Hollywood, where the ability to crumple a mouth into a frown is as vital as remembering one’s lines. More startling is how young plastic surgery devotees have become. In January, the actress Heidi Montag was on the cover of People magazine touting the 10 cosmetic procedures she received in one day. She is 23.

 

 

 

 

 

Poor old Ms Montag, eh? Someone forgot to pass that memo on. Whoops. But for all intents and purposes, some Hollywood starlets learnt this lesson eons ago.

For instance, remember Jennifer Grey? Gee, I loved that face. It was just so interesting. Yes, I’m talking about her nose. It was her special something. But, she had rhinoplasty in an effort to improve her career. That backfired and many speculate that when she went under the knife, her nose wasn’t the only thing to, um, shorten – so was the life expectancy of her acting career.

But those who are famous and are unashamed of their interesting points of aesthetic difference are just wonderful. Jewel Kilcher sings of her crooked teeth with pride, and Lisa Kudrow recently appeared on Cougartown wrinkles and all, unabashed and unfazed. Then there’s Kate Hudson who is just so happy and content with her assets, no matter what size they may be. (Oh, wait. Strike that).

This news is welcomed at a time when everybody we see on the big screen has become so distant, so fake, so… unattainable. So, snaps to you, movers and shakers in La La Land. You’re onto something. I like real too. Real makes me feel like, if Jennifer Grey could learn to dance under the instruction of someone like Mr Patrick “Swoon” Swayze (God bless his rested soul), then dammit I could too. Well, my chances are definitely looking better than Heidi Montag’s.

Do you believe that Hollywood is going to get real? Is there any celebrity you can think of who you DON’T think has been surgically altered?