Monday, February 9, 2009

Early Morning* Outrage

Ugh!! So I was reading some other blogs and had the TV on in the background. The Rachael Ray Show was on and this plastic surgeon was talking about nose jobs and brought up Adrien Brody. I've loved him since he was the (kind of faux) punk in Summer of Sam. His face is perfect and his nose suits him (and I've always had a thing for big noses). This effing plastic surgeon puts up a side by side pic of Adrien and what he'd look like with a nose-job. He said even though he's very handsome, that the smaller nose fit his face better.

TOTAL LIE!! In the after picture his nose did not balance out his chin, and the proportionality was gone from his face. I'm actually surprised the Dr. didn't suggest shaving down his chin bone as well. Jesus...I'm so sick of people getting cookie cutter noses. So many awesome looking people don't have cookie cutter noses. Besides Adrien, Noel Fielding and Erin O'Connor spring immediately to mind.

After the Adrien face massacre he brought up a similar side by side showing a woman in the audience what her nose could look like post-rhinoplasty. She basically said she wanted to get the surgery but couldn't afford to so the doc was basically showing her what she can't have. Nice...

For the rest of the segment, Rachael, who doesn't really seem all that vain, had to ooh and aah over things from breast implants to eyebrow growth serum. It came off as totally fake and pandering, the same way she seems to be pandering when she does segments for people with children (ok, I have watched her show before). I tend to think it's because producers are likely pressuring her to try too hard to appeal to her perceived audience. I wonder if this will change now that the demographics of people at home at 10am, due to unemployment, become very different.

*I'm fully aware that 10am isn't really considered early morning but I freelance and I stay up really late so to me it's pretty much early morning.

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