Peckerwood Manor

Bella the Nepo Frankenmodel is the header because I didn't want to throw a jump scare at you, but it is still an example of a lot of plastic surgery. She's on the verge of taking surgery too far. She's paid 100s of thousands for painful, risky procedures. Was it worth it when she looks like a well-preserved 45? Good job! If anyone says it is just makeup, I will visit you and stab you because no amount of cosmetics does that. I was a makeup artist and am very aware of the limitations. So there! The pressure to always look perfect, young, fit, and beautiful can be overwhelming. These days, social media is full of Face Tune and photoshopped images flooding the internet with simulated-looking people posed to look their best using their most favorable angles and lighting; it can make one feel like this is what they should also look like. For some of us, we look at them, know what we are looking at, and wave it away for what it is, never allowing it to become some out-of-control ...

Jennifer Aniston debuted a new look, and her fans and The Morning Show fans are calling her out and calling her almost unrecognizable. I read the headline and figured, what else is new? A vain, desperate, aging actor has plastic surgery to stay in the game. The grass is green, the sky is blue, and the earth turns on its axis. Facts. It isn't new or remarkable, I thought. Her face is her job; Aniston is no bra-burning trailblazer by any account, and so what, anyway. I was prepared to move on to searching for gossip and thought nothing of it.  Until I actually saw it, and there is no way around this. Crikey woman! I struggled to find a way to make it make sense. Surely, she was more intelligent than this, but she looked like an entirely different person, like a sister or cousin, just not Jennifer. The difference is striking and, to me, not a great job. Maybe it needs to settle, but it is weird because her face is also as frozen as Nicole Kidman's was circa 2005 when Kidman was sk...