She is just 23 years old and by any standard she was gorgeous already. This star of "The Hills", Heidi Montag is long, lean, blonde, and had underwent surgery at 20 years old to have breast implants.
This week Montag will be on the cover of People magazine in a “reveal” that probably sets some sort of record – she underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures all at once in a quest to be “perfect.”
Yes. That’s right, 10. Included in the list of procedures were an increase in breast size to DDDs, a brow lift, Botox injections in various places, fat injections in various places, a chin reduction, a nose job revision, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, and a butt augmentation. She also had her ears pinned back, an issue that apparently has pained Montag since she was a child.
"For the past three years I've thought about what to have done," Montag told People magazine. "I'm beyond obsessed.”
“And so, on Nov. 20, Montag's total transformation began. Keeping even her family in the dark, the starlet chronicled every painful moment of recovery and her journey to become 'the best me.' ”
Newsweek magazine writers Sarah Ball and Jessica Bennett got a preview of the People magazine article. Their piece, titled “Heidi Montag, version 3.0,” goes on to detail 11 things that bother them about the actress’ plastic surgery marathon.
We can think of at least that many. But we’ll let Ball and Bennett have the podium for a minute:
“6. Apparently This Is Normal. (At Least in Hollywood.)
We've grown up on pop culture that screams that everything is a candidate for improvement. We've watched bodies transformed on Extreme Makeover; faces taken apart and pieced back together on I Want a Famous Face. We dissect Demi Moore's Photoshopped body on the cover of W magazine and wonder how the 47-year-old mother, even before the airbrushing, could possibly look so good. Meanwhile, statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on those 18 and younger have nearly doubled over the past decade, while nearly 14 percent of Botox injections are given to those in the 19-to-34 age group, like Heidi. "I think it's a very interesting time for girls, in that what we all grew up believing—that you have to play the hand you're dealt—is no longer true," screenwriter and director Nora Ephron recently told Newsweek. "In some sense, you really can go out and buy yourself a better face and a different body."
“1. Heidi Montag Will Never Be 'Perfect'
She told People she was "never the prettiest girl," and that the reason for her many procedures was "to feel perfect." But what Montag is reaching for, say body-image experts, simply doesn't exist. It's "unattainable beauty," as Susie Orbach, the former therapist to Princess Diana, has put it: the idea that good looks and peak fitness are no longer a biological gift but a ceaseless pursuit. If this is Montag at 23, just imagine how she'll be at 40.”
We aren't sure where to start with this one, but one thing's for certain: This can't be good for the teens and twentysomethings who watch The Hills and aspire to be just as long, lean and privileged as the actresses who portray the main characters.
The People cover:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20336472,00.html
The two-page People before and after spread:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/heidi-montags-10-plastic_n_423855.html
The Newsweek story:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/231093/page/1