quotations about plastic surgery
I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to tupperware.
JOAN RIVERS
attributed, Snippets of Joan Rivers
No one can or should tell you why you should consider plastic surgery for aesthetic reasons. You should be able to clearly define your desire to improve aging or to enhance facial or body appearance. Others may support you in your decision, but the decision to have plastic surgery should be yours alone.
DIANE GERBER
100 Questions and Answers About Plastic Surgery
When most people think of complications from plastic surgery, they think of things like visible scars, asymmetrical breasts or infections. There is another type of complication, however, that can be just as painful as a medical complication. Psychological complications are often subtle and counterintuitive.
ANTHONY NAPOLEON
Awakening Beauty
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.
NAOMI WOLF
The Beauty Myth
It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy, and when I'm confounded. Your face tells a story ... and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
JULIA ROBERTS
"Julia Roberts: ELLE's September cover girl opens up", Elle, August 4, 2010
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS
attributed, On Being Blonde
There were the studies, beginning in 2007, which found that the suicide rate among women who had received breast implants were twice the suicide rate of the general population. So there's an alarming relationship between being deeply unhappy, being unhappy with your body, and having liquid-filled plastic bags surgically inserted into your body that kind of contradicts the whole "boost your self-esteem" line about the real reasons to have cosmetic surgery.
SUSAN J. DOUGLAS
Enlightened Sexism
I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s--- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age.
JENNIFER ANISTON
"The Most Revealing Celebrity Quotes on Plastic Surgery", Marie Claire, June 8, 2015
I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.
GELSEY KIRKLAND
attributed, Transformation Garden, February 20, 2016
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
NAOMI WOLF
The Beauty Myth
It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty ... I will never give in.
KATE WINSLET
"Kate Winslet: Cosmetic surgery goes against my morals", The Telegraph, August 14, 2011
When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it.
ANDI ZEISLER
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Botox, trust me I've been tempted--but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles--and your skin--if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
SALMA HAYEK
"9 Crazy Things Celebs Have Said About Plastic Surgery", Byrdie, November 5, 2014
If life gives you lemons, a simple operation can give you melons.
ANONYMOUS
If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.
CHER
"The World According to Cher", ABC News, June 20, 2002
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope -- once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
HALLE BERRY
"The Most Revealing Celebrity Quotes on Plastic Surgery", Marie Claire, June 8, 2015
Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
DOLLY PARTON
Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You
No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, 'If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles.' Can you imagine?
SALMA HAYEK
"The Most Revealing Celebrity Quotes on Plastic Surgery", Marie Claire, June 8, 2015
Plastic Surgery: Come as you are, leave as you wish.
ANONYMOUS
If I go into a hospital, I want to come out looking younger.
RITA RUDNER
Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel