Just to stir things up a bit:
do you really have to hate yourself to go for all the treatments that various "celebs" may or may not have had?
we wear clothes, use cleaning products on ourselves that (may) contain parabens & other "nice" things, wash our hair, brush our teeth etc...etc..Would our diet not have changed, might our need to do any of these things have happened
I dunno, plastic surgery does seem wierd to me but then who are we to comment? If one has the ways & means & technology makes it so then are we not just continuing the human condition?
Pete Burns does it because he can (so he says) & because he likes to shock. Genesis P Orridge (look him up) did it to shock, so are we not just as guilty or insecure if we prejudge people we are only exposed to on tv?
I couldn't care less what people look like, I'm covered in tattoo's & am also judged on pre-conceived notions of image. We are quick (or can be) to judge but we all define ourselves in different ways. Anyone introduced themselves as Mr/Mrs So & So, I am a Blah Blah and I also grow my own/run a smallholding etc....etc?... Its a way of defining our tribal bonding...or our tribal allegiances, so say the physical anthropr..cannae smell..ists!
My brain hurts