The following celebrities looked a whole lot different after a makeover.
Whether you consider their new looks subjectively worse or superficially better, one thing is
clear: these stars damaged their careers after changing their famous faces.
This next celebrity comes with a bit of an asterisk, since Jamie Lee Curtis is a boss
who's only gotten better with age, but her efforts to fight aging did hinder her work
temporarily.
In a 2002 interview with More magazine, she admitted to having several procedures, including
liposuction and Botox, and that she didn't like the results of any of them.
She even suffered from a post-op painkiller addiction.
But it was surgery on her undereye bags that actually hurt her ability to make a movie.
Curtis had fat taken from underneath her eyes because she was puffy while working on a film.
She recalled the cameraman saying, "I can't shoot her now."
As she put it,
"I remember being mortified.
And yet, you know what?
Nobody tells you if you take fat from your body in one place, it comes back in another
All of these 'bettering' experiences are not without risk.
And there is this illusion that once you do it, then you'll be fine.
And that's just horses---.
I looked worse."
Since then, Curtis has been unapologetically herself, including in 2012 when she wrote
an essay for The Huffington Post decrying the obsession with anti-aging.
Cardi B loves money, and it hurt her to say goodbye to a huge chunk of change while she
recovered from liposuction and breast implants.
In May 2019, she was forced to cancel several shows to avoid complications after her liposuction.
Some critics called her lazy for not working out to get her pre-baby body back.
She responded by fuming at them in an Instagram Live video about how her job as an entertainer
is a 24-hour one, so she didn't have time to work out.
Cardi also noted that she hated cancelling shows and losing out on the revenue because
she's a, quote, "money addict."
She also revealed that traveling for her shows caused swelling, especially in her lower extremities,
which scared her and took too much of a toll on her body, leading her doctor to warn her
to take it easy.
"You feeling good?"
"Yes.
My daughter f---ed me up.
She did."
Courteney Cox hasn't admitted to losing any specific acting work due to her procedures,
but she has said she could barely move her face because she had too much filler.
The Cougar Town actress confessed to New Beauty in 2017 that her use of fillers was gradual,
which made her not notice she'd gone too far until a pal pointed it out.
She's since had her fillers dissolved, though she hasn't discounted a more cautious, conservative
use of them in the future.
As she put it,
"Things are going to change.
Everything's going to drop.
I was trying to make it not drop, but that made me look fake.
You need movement in your face, especially if you have thin skin like I do."
She also noted,
"I grew up thinking that appearance was the most important thing.
That's kind of sad because it got me in trouble.
I was trying so hard to keep up, and I actually made things worse."
Kenny Rogers' plastic surgery didn't hinder his smooth crooning voice, but it did make
him terribly self-conscious.
He explained how he felt during an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning in 2012.
"You look at yourself and you go, 'Could I be better if I did this or I did that?'
And I did it, and the guy who did it was one of the world's best."
Rogers admitted that he regretted getting the work done, but he also explained that
he doesn't know what he would look like if he hadn't done it.
In 2015, he announced that he was going on a farewell tour called "The Gambler's Last
Deal."
He had dates set through 2018, but in April of that year, he had to cancel the remainder
of the tour due to a series of health challenges.
In 2015, Modern Family actor Reid Ewing wrote an essay for The Huffington Post about his
heartbreaking battle with body dysmorphia.
He revealed that after moving to Los Angeles, he obsessed over what he perceived to be imperfections.
His first plastic surgery came at age 19 when he got cheek implants.
He described the experience as incredibly painful, both physically and emotionally.
He had to wear a mask for weeks after the procedure, which led to him temporarily fleeing
his home to avoid people finding out about the surgery.
Ewing claimed that the implants actually made his face appear gaunt because they defined
his cheekbones more than his actual cheeks.
A second doctor then suggested a chin implant as a correction.
He continued to get even more procedures, all in an effort to correct prior procedures
gone wrong.
He had essentially become addicted to plastic surgery.
Ewing hasn't acted much outside of Modern Family in recent years.
While he didn't explicitly say in his essay that his surgeries hurt his career, it did
hurt his bank account, as he revealed that he had to borrow from his parents and grandmother
when he was at his most desperate.
"I wish I could just, you know, talk to my younger self, and tell him, just, 'Don't go
through with it.
You really don't need it.
You look fine."
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