Do Cosmetic Surgery Patients Really Come in Asking to Look Like Movie Stars?
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Latest answer by Richard Baxter, MD
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Tags: Angelina Jolie, celebrity, consultation, Kim Kardashian
12 answers to Do Cosmetic Surgery Patients Really Come in Asking to Look Like Movie Stars?
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No. Generally if a famous person is brought up by...
No. Generally if a famous person is brought up by example, it is of an extreme result that people find unattractive (e.g. Michael Jackson's overdone nose, Joan River's overdone face, or Pamela Anderson's obviously "fake" breasts).
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Plastic surgery and celebritity looks
Patients do very occasionally come into our Beverly Hills office and ask to look like a certain celebrity.
Plastic surgeons will typically explain that aspects of the patient's appearance can be improved but it is not realistic to make a patient look like somebody else.
Celebrities are often very beautiful people. They often have an unusual combination of beautiful features, most natural, some "enhanced". This combination of features makes them beautiful.
We use the same...
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Rhinoplasty: Getting the Nose You Want
Many rhinoplasty (nose job) patients ask whether or not surgery can give them a nose like a particular celebrity or movie star. In some cases, it is possible to give patients the features of a particular person's nose - such as a defined bridge or sculpted tip.
However, it is important to realize that there is not a "one-size-fits-all" nose. For the nose to appear natural and attractive, it must harmonize and be in balance with the patient's other facial features. A nose that is...
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C. Spencer Cochran, MD
Dallas Facial Plastic Surgeon
Dallas Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Most cosmetic surgery patients want to look natural
We recently read a Reuters report that said that Beverly Hills plastic surgery patients want the eyes of Katie Holmes, the lips of Angelina Jolie and Jessica Biel’s body. While the article goes on to say that patients do not ask for plastic surgery “to look exactly like a specific star,” it suggests they do want “to replicate a distinct feature of various celebrity faces and bodies.”
At Profiles, we wonder what the point is to an article that suggests that...
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Peyman Solieman, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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You should just want to be the best you can be
Perhaps in Beverly Hills, patients ask to look like movie stars but not out in the "real world" of plastic surgery. First of all, it would not be possible to grant such a request. Secondly, a properly motivated cosmetic surgery patient should want a result that looks natural, not operated upon, and is one that makes them look "better, not different!"
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Cosmetic Surgery Clients want to look like themselves...only better!
My clients come from a wide range of backgrounds but share one thing in common... they all want to look and feel better but don't want to look like someone else.
While some will point to various attributes of movie stars and say that they like someone's nose, someone's breasts, or someone's legs, they don't necessarily want to look exactly like this person; instead, they use a particular attribute as an example or as a template for a specific look.
Gregory A. Buford, MD
Denver Plastic Surgeon
Denver Plastic Surgeon
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Patients want to look like themselves not movie stars
I am sure this varies around the country but here in Seattle people usually just want an improved version of themselves. There are cases where people reference certain movie star features, and the media love to play up stories like this. Whatever procedures are done, they should result in harmonious balance with the person' anatomy.
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Patients who want movie Star body parts not uncommon
It's not uncommon for patients to refer to a particular body part of a favorite movie star when describing their aspirations. We get this most often with lips. Many of our female patients would all love to have Angelina Jolie's lips.
As a practice, we have to be very careful about selecting patients that have realistic expectations for their results. Taking on too many patients that want to look like their favorite stars is a recipe for disaster unless their goals are tempered with a sense...
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Usually like parts.
Patients typically come in referring to specific body parts. But it is often to say what they DON'T LIKE.
For example:
I want (or don't want) Angelina's lips
I want (or don't want) Pamela Anderson's breasts
I don't want Priscilla Presley's facial injections
I don't want to be pulled as tight as Joan Rivers
etc.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
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Celebrity Plastic Surgery
Patients do ask on occassion for an aesthetic enhancement that will result in a facial or body feature similar to that of a feature of a celebrity,. More frequently patients want to be sure that the result of their surgery doesn't look "done" . Sometimes a patient may mention a particular celebrity with obvious plastic surgrery of the face or body and tell me, "I don't want to look like that person".
In my experience, most people seeking plastic surgery...
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Movie Star Looks and Plastic Surgery
In our practice, we have developed expertise in several facial and body techniques and find that people from our area tend to discuss the improvements they want in general terms.
However, we have a regular stream of patients that fly or drive up from Los Angeles that typically ask for a derriere that looks like J-Lo's or cheeks that look like Kate Winslet's (true!).
We treat all of our patients like movie stars but also emphasize realistic, safe goals. We've had a great track record of...
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Beauty by design
In reading the answers of my colleagues, it has become clear that our practices and experiences with patients are certainly different. Yesterday, I was given an opportunity to answer this very question in an interview filmed for a documentary film regarding celebrity obsession.
Although this is not the norm, I have certainly had requests from patients in my practice who wish to have features of certain public figures. I have had several patients bring pictures of Angelina Jolie, Kim...
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Behrooz Torkian, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon