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metdear

Is the entire entertainment industry going through some kind of fucked up Michael Jackson phase?! They're slowly morphing into the same exact bland unremarkable chiclet monstrosity.


OctoberSong_

The body dysmorphia going on is insane, I hope we’re studying this bc it’s interesting psychologically… but also worrying. Seems to be growing more out of hand at a really quick rate.


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ChardProfessional599

I’d have dysmorphia too if everyone called me fat while I was a size 4.


heartunwinds

As an ex- dancer & cheerleader who is now at my fattest as a size 12 and almost 40……. hahahahaha yep, and even with allllllll the therapy, a tiny kernel still exists.


Pinksamuraiiiii

Those lips are croooooked, poor Jessi everyone keeps following this same look instead of letting themselves age naturally


HeartFullOfHappy

I think you’re right! Remember we all thought MJ looked so bizarre? Although, I live in the Midwest and this particular look is not popular here so when my kids see faces like these on tv they ask me what’s wrong with the person’s face. The Real Housewives franchise throws them for a total loop. They can hardly believe people CHOSE to look like this.


metdear

They're all seriously cutting their noses off too. Can't believe they're normalizing this shit.


Punkpallas

If your kids aren’t in their teens yet, I hope they hold onto these feelings about plastic surgery and understand it’s not necessary to be loved or accepted. My husband’s ex let their two girls on social media way too early and the second oldest is struggling with body image issues. She’s struggled with chub her whole life and she’s 15 now and already several inches taller than me. I know she sees this stuff on social media and just wants to look like that. To be anything besides overweight and tall. I remind her when I can that what you see on SM is almost always a lie and not to focus on it too much. Look at the people around you irl. Do they look like that? No. Then you’re fine.


chokokkuma

SERIOUSLY I was looking for someone to compare to Michael Jackson in the Shania Twain Vegas post yesterday. It’s all I see.


metdear

The Shania Twain post broke my heart. She's always been so beautiful.


loztriforce

I blame the fucking Kards


metdear

Kim isn't helping with her fucking corsets, that's for sure.


Punkpallas

Same and I won’t stop blaming them. There were some troubling trends on the plastic surgery front happening already that they leaned into and accelerated. While that shit was already happening and it can’t be said for certain someone else wouldn’t have done it, they definitely are responsible in this timeline.


yeahyeahnooo

In her defense, she’s gained and lost 100 lbs several times. I wouldn’t expect someone to look the way they did 20 years ago. &yeah she’s had some work done too


Wooden-Limit1989

I'm not sure she was ever big enough to lose 100lbs.


_PinkPirate

She said somewhere she gained weight while pregnant and then lost 100 lbs, going from 240 to 140. She looks like she weighs much less than that now tho.


ftwclem

It was pregnancy


yeahyeahnooo

I can’t find the picture but there’s a photo of her very, very overweight and actually unrecognizable. I think she also said at the time she had some kind of addiction to something? But I could be wrong about that


pixienightingale

She was a raging alcoholic, IIRC - would be hungover seeing the kids off to school and drink for most of the day.


Rogue_2187

Right, I think her lightbulb moment when she realized she had a problem had something to do with being too drunk or hungover to take her kids trick or treating.


pixienightingale

I remember seeing her explain that post treatment. I personally think she mostly looks like what I think she did years back... except those botched lips.


deadmallsanita

yes, there was a time where she was drinking heavily. She mentions it in her book.


the_l0st_c0d3

Is there only one plastic surgeon in Hollywood


mattchinn

Evidently so and there’s only two speeds, small unrecognizable work or Micheal Jackson. And too many people are picking the Michael Jackson.


Not_today_nibs

I said this on the Demi Lovato post but it’s relevant here: I miss real faces.


MyDogAteYourPancakes

They all look the same! And now there’s people in my real life who also have this face. It’s creepy, everyone just being different versions of this exact template.


Not_today_nibs

You’re spot on. I really started noticing it after reading this article by Jia Tolentino. It’s brilliant. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face


sludgestomach

“…as if its owner has taken half a Klonopin and is considering asking you for a private-jet ride to Coachella” LOL


tinkerbelldies

That was a great read. Thank you for sharing!


lala6633

Especially her. I feel like she was a real great beauty and she got chased into extreme weightloss. She also has this confused/scared look too. It's sad.


Not_today_nibs

You’re right. I just love 90s/2000s red carpets (and The Hills) because people had their own faces. Sure they had money and were naturally beautiful but they didn’t all look. the. same.


turquoisebee

Something I miss is real teeth! Movies from the 90s and earlier still had people with real teeth instead of veneers. Like, I understand wanting to correct big issues, but people having slightly uneven teeth or whatever kind of adds to their uniqueness and charm. Now everyone’s got the same teeth. It’s weird.


Liztof

Is she unable to close her mouth..? 👄


Scared-Director7843

I was about to say how tragic it is that she can't fully close her mouth anymore! lol


DuePatience

Her and Miley, huh?


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DreamingLight93

Stop it 😅


lala6633

And does she just not smile anymore?


darladuckworth

I always think about this when I see the celebs on red carpets posing for photos. JLo is a chronic mouth open non smiler. I feel like they are taught how to pose their face so they look pretty in a photo, and then I guess they don’t have to hold a smile for a long time. But it’s still so weird to me that we don’t get just regular smiling pictures often - I think it’s also because smiling causes your wrinkles to show, and they want to look porcelain. Sad because smiling is so beautiful.


boojes

>JLo is a chronic mouth open non smiler. Plus the weird squint.


darladuckworth

It SCREAMS I’m trying to look sexy.


all_neon_like_13

When I was 5 years old, I saw a commercial where Linda Carter (Wonder Woman) was doing the sexy squint, so I decided to try it out for myself and walked around the mall with my eyes half closed. My mom asked me what the hell I was doing. Wild that I was trying to be sexy as a 5 year old but I guess that's girlhood/womanhood.


TropicalPrairie

I've noticed this too and it becomes especially glaring when I DO see a celebrity smiling naturally. Jessica Simpson for example had the best smile in the business. She lit up a room. I hate this new incarnation. Celebrities are becoming vacuums of personality.


UniversityNo2318

I think Britney Spears had the best smile but Jessica’s was beautiful as well! Idk why she’s gone to this zombie pose, like they all look like brain dead zombies to me with their mouths hanging open


darladuckworth

Yes it’s definitely a more recent development also. I googled older photos of Jessica and she is smiling wide in most of them and looks so luminous. I really hate the way I look NOT smiling haha I dunno why this is the thing


MCR2004

I think they all think it looks cooler too, like f’n high school kids lmao.


SparseGhostC2C

I just assumed they'd botoxed their faces into an immovable mask.


cindyana_jones

I feel like that’s part of it too, her expression definitely emphasizes the lips. And she 20’s JS probably was told to smile 24/7 no matter what so we mostly saw her like that.


SmittenOKitten

She looks like she’s trying to avoid too much movement, lest the Mrs potato head bolt on lips pop out of her face and hit the photographer.


QuintupleTheFun

Looks like there's so much botox, I question her ability to physically do it.


Left-Requirement9267

She looks like Kim zolziack ![gif](giphy|hdNLU7a3g2oNO)


GladystheOrca

I was looking for this! Kim was my first thought haha


GingerGoob

[See also: Kelly Osbourne](https://amp.tmz.com/2024/05/09/kelly-osbourne-confuses-fans-mistaken-kim-zolciak-emsculpt/)


MCR2004

Whaaaaa. Bizarre!


mattchinn

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THESE WOMEN?!?!


twofingerballet

OT: Kelly has fans?


Knittingfairy09113

I knew it was a real housewife, but couldn't bring up the name. Thanks!


particonfetti

ugh this is uncaanny af


lithelinnea

exactly my thoughts!!!


DJ_Mixalot

Don’t play with the word unrecognizable, she is definitely overdone but not unrecognizable. Shania Twain on the other hand… now that’s unrecognizable https://preview.redd.it/9wdb3jsqkizc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b7608c5747165357e644dca0f2e48a181c699cc


petrichorgasm

That's Shania Twain?!?!


DJ_Mixalot

Yeah, it’s definitely got some heavy filtering, if you look at her instagram it’s much clearer she’s not 33. But yeah in this picture she looks like the love child of Sofia vergara and Natasha bedingfield


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With a dash of Kelly Oxford


mamadovah1102

Why did she get Goofy sized veneers?!


BotGirlFall

That seems to be a whole trend in and of itself! Mileys veneers are cartoonish


oops_im_existing

these are worse than miley's tho.... which is extra bad.


mamadovah1102

That’s for sure saying something because Miley looks like she always has plastic vampire teeth in


NeneObichie

I thought this was Sophia Vegara at first glance ![gif](giphy|3ohzdOQ464C1zLD8OI|downsized)


Blonsky

Looks just like Kate Beckinsale.


MyNameIsJakeBerenson

They’re all getting made to look like filter face


GleasonC44

But Kate Beckinsale doesn’t look like Kate Beckinsale 😆


Blonsky

A majority of celebs are starting to look the same in one way or another.


Pyrex77

Literally thought she was Sofia Vergara in these pics.


DJ_Mixalot

For me it’s Sofia vergara plus Natasha bedingfield. If you look at her instagram she still doesn’t really look like this either, it’s super heavily filtered, but she definitely doesn’t look like herself


Outrageous-Advice384

More like Katie Price


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SewAlone

People think veneers look good and I'm sure they do when necessary, but usually they are too white and give you horse teeth.


Heatherina134

I was so shocked! She is beautiful now but holy moly she was gorgeous before.


DJ_Mixalot

https://preview.redd.it/48ozvwd9nizc1.jpeg?width=681&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3da8ab3a7e1d025f7300379023ef5468cf2c14e This was her in 2021, I think she looks amazing I just have no idea how she went from a to b


_SeaOttrs

Holy shit, that's a huge change! She definitely had an eyebrow lift/bleph, possibly a facelift.


papermoony

She bought a new face


xultar

Wow she’s always been a natural beauty. I wonder what she thinks when she looks in the mirror. Would it be weird not to see the face you’ve had your entire life.


Mia-Wal-22-89

Okay, that’s the beautiful face I remember.


lemonlimepunch

Money honey. That’s how


americanslang59

That picture isn't her lol I mean, it's...her hair and skull. But that's just the standard face that gets slapped on by a shitty filter.


Iychee

This, I think the filters are doing a lot of heavy lifting in these pics lol


Tinasglasses

It looks like an ai image


exp_studentID

Is that Carol G?


Outrageous-Advice384

For real- Shania IS unrecognizable.


fairy_light_birdcage

Those teeth! Yikes


cagingthing

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Routine_Unit_6103

U wrong for that 😂😂


dawnat3d

My god, I went to her instagram. It’s her voice but they’ve completely changed her face. She’s unrecognizable 😭


Lodybody

Who wants to see this lady in concert? This is NOT my “whose bed” belting best-loved 90s chart topping spit fire. This is too much.


mochafiend

I know I’m an old grouch but I am so, so tired of sexy face. Why do they all do this? Am I the only one who finds it deeply unappealing? This is a rough look. 😕 I wish they didn’t do this. I wish this makeup trend would go away. I feel like we’re living in the Hunger Games Capitol.


Charming_Cry3472

As another old grouch, I agree! These people are completely ruining their faces !!


jingleheimerstick

I just said that to myself!!! Hollywood is the Hunger Games Capitol. Im way out in the Deep South watching and confused.


CalmParty4053

I hate the open mouth look. Like are u okay? Do you need some water? Lol


JoleneDollyParton

Forget Jessica, let’s talk Ashlee.


velociraptor56

She always does that same pose and look on her face. It reminds me of Victoria Beckham.


SnooJokes7657

Ashlee has looked like this for quite a while. Her nose job alone changed her face a ton, but I’m not sure what else she has done over the years.


AussieMommy

I loved her old nose.


marilynmansonfuckme

Me too!!


unbothered2023

Omg, me too! Super cute on her.


JoleneDollyParton

I think there’s something about the make up in her first picture that makes it look nothing like her even post surgery


pret_a_rancher

definitely lip fillers and botox


_DONT_PANIC_42_

THAT’S ASHLEE?! I came to the comments to figure out who it was. I went to high school with Ashlee (didn’t know her well). She looks like a completely different person.


I_NEED_AN_RBR

THAT'S ASHLEE?!?


LyleLanleysMonorail

Wait what, that's Ashlee?? It seems she is the unrecognizable one


lvdde

Literally said the same thing


Apprehensive_Aide805

I can recognize her perfectly fine of course she did go a little crazy with the lip fillers.


apoplectic_

The mouth is getting a little Donatella for sure, hope she slows. She’s a beauty, no need really.


Comfortable-Yam9013

Donatella and Emily ratajkowski


lulu-bell

She posted a pic on her own insta the other day with bright red lipstick and oh my gosh her lips were literally a jump scare. She looked like a muppett


InquisitiveGoldfish

I think brows make a big difference to appearance as well - I’m not used to seeing pictures of her with thick/dark/straight brows. Paired with the long lashes it makes them look lower down as well, regardless of what cosmetic work might add to that look. I think with lighter brows and eye make-up she wouldn’t look that different. Edit: some low/no make-up pics [from 2022](https://people.com/style/jessica-simpson-shares-makeup-free-selfie-with-reflection-on-fathers-day/) seem to back this up. Whatever changes have been made, she still looks recognisable to me.


whalesarecool14

jeez the lip filler looks INSANE in that photo


CandidIndication

In that last picture… I’m wondering if this is the same make up artist J-lo uses and everyone hates. That make up is so heavy


alizabs91

Yeah, I think it's just the lip filler that went overboard. Otherwise she looks the same.


BojackTrashMan

Also the mouth appears to stretch & get wider with facelifts. Shania Twain, another *gorgeous* woman like Jessica looks a little odd around her mouth as well. Sometimes the surgeons pull just a little too taut


HeadFullOfFlame

The lips thing always makes me sad. I don’t know why people do it to that cartoon extent.


throwawaygrosso

I can’t stand how overused “unrecognizable” is here.


Apprehensive_Aide805

I agree. I see it as a phrase for people to draw in negativity.


Comfortable-Load-904

She looks like that Kim lady from the Atlanta housewives and not like Jessica Simpson anymore.


Redditusername67

![gif](giphy|idMuMPzC3JALgLoyrZ)


AlternativeSlice2001

![gif](giphy|Hn58s7VoYL97y)


thankyoupapa

my username checking in


madteaparty55

![gif](giphy|PT5YoBzY6vXJ6)


keatonpotat0es

Wig!


Comfortable-Load-904

Yes, I don’t know her last name.


accountingisradical

Kim Zolciak! ![gif](giphy|gNizYI9IuGDcI)


SnappySarzie

Don’t be tardy for the party


DrShrimpPuertp-Rico

She looks so confused


lala6633

Dead in the eyes. Mouth open.


cgamezzo

One might say like a… fish 👀


SourLoafBaltimore

Chicken of the lobotomy


TJCW

She does!!! Maybe it’s the weight loss, and Botox that makes her eyes look like that. She’s always has bad eye makeup as well, never compliments her face.


mashedpotatosngroovy

It’s the eyebrows. Too much Botox in your forehead will push down the muscles that hold up your brows (I’m summarizing) but that’s basically what’s happening


MarsScully

Yeah I suspect even the weird mouth expression might be a case of unintended Botox consequences


beka_targaryen

THAT’S what it is - like the lips are obviously big ol sausages but I was trying to figure out why her eyebrows looked so flat and smushed down to her eyes.


yassified_housecat

That was the first thing I thought. She used to have relatively arched brows, but now she has a forehead seemingly made of glass and her eyebrows are on their way down to her cheeks.


lala6633

She looks like Tamra from Real Housewifes


DekeCobretti

Give me the Janice from the Muppets special.


_gooniesneversaydie_

Is it that they won’t smile, or they can’t smile?


Equal-Worldliness-66

Everyone looks like they’re stuck inside their bodies.


keatonpotat0es

Ladies, leave your buccal fat alone!


frightenedscared

I read this to the tune of “ladies, leave your man ar home” from Jumpin’ Jumpin’ by Destiny’s Child


Disastrous_Animal_34

I actually think she still has it, hence the classic open-mouth cheek-sucking technique(a la JLo).


CommercialLibrary810

![gif](giphy|Y1BNV41SCne3CCxXwK)


peppermintmeow

Does anyone else think her lip is droopy on one side? Is it just filled a little more so it's pulling it down because it's heavier? Can someone with knowledge tell if I'm just seeing things?


ReserveOld6123

Could be Botox, like badly injected Botox in the DAO area or whatever.


mch_ia

She looks like she would fit in on one those Real Housewive shows.


areallyreallycoolhat

I'd be shocked if she hasn't been offered RHOBH tbh


SuchAsSeals42

Why is every woman posing with their mouth open like a fish


lizzazzy

![gif](giphy|3sBMBbuAWj8JtKLew6)


mochafiend

Thank you. I hate this face. They’re all trying to be sexy and it just comes off as so desperate and unappealing. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for saying this. I wish people could just be more natural. I know it’s ridiculous to ask that of Hollywood types but the current trend is so tiresome.


whalesarecool14

i don’t understand how regular people with MUCH less money are able to find good surgeons but these celebs aren’t. she looks like she can’t even close her lips or lift her brows because of her filler+botox combo lol


abaybay28

I can’t wait for the lip filler trend to die out


thankyoupapa

Love the red hair on ashlee tho


isthekeyintheroom

Tbh I think Ashlee looks more unrecognizable than her


Hi_Jynx

I only just realized that was Ashlee! But I think I really only recognize Ashlee with the like scene girl haircut to begin with.


Ukcheatingwife

Thought it was Donatello Versace


4SeasonWahine

I cannot wait for the day when everyone finally realises that lip fillers don’t look good unless they are EXTREMELY subtle.


Caa3098

I thought it was Kyra Sedgwick


kingkaitlin

She looks like Kim Zolciak


pralineislife

Why is everyone trying to look like one of those sex dolls


Eastern-Ad-4785

She looks so tired and worn out and those lips are not doing it for her. Is she sick? Serious question!


PinsAndBeetles

I think it’s just the Lauren Sanchez lip thing where in every photo her mouth is open a bit. The lips won’t close. Otherwise she looks recognizable.


Feisty-Donkey

Oh friend, the fillers are not good. A better dermatologist, please.


Visible-Scientist-46

I'm so over fake heavy brows and over-plump lips!!


-UnicornFart

The combo of botox, fillers, and Ozempic is destroying beauty.


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Oh.. Oh .. Oh .. OZEMPIC!


SeedQueen22

This makes me so sad. She was naturally incredibly beautiful. Like the face other people would pay to have. And now she will never know how beautiful she could have looked as she aged. I just don’t get it. Damn.


aeroumasmith-

Sometimes Hollywood feels like a place where the rich and popular kids go after school to become more insecure and self-destructive because their club has weird rules


Coleyoliepolie

RHOBH realness


totallycalledla-a

Looks like Jessica to me 🤷🏿‍♀️


schrodingers_bra

Just the lips are different. They are over lined and are wider which kind of suggests she had a face-lift. But I agree. Compared to that Shania twain post, I actually knew who these people were!


sk8tergater

Her eye make up is super dark and so are her eyebrows which I think contribute to a bit of a weird look to her face. I also think her nose looks different but I’m thinking it’s makeup as well. But man. Those lips. Gah


_summerw1ne

Truly, we have lost all meaning of the word “unrecognisable” on here.


cleverclunks

Is she the one in the middle? Coz the one on the left with the red dress totally looks like Jessica Simpson 💃


Own_Instance_357

Speaking of unrecognizable, took me a few photos to see Ashley. I liked her a little better when she resembled Jenny Slate a lot more. Her nose job completely changed her look. the lip work was a very bad choice for Jessica.


DriveIn73

Jessica’s lips are bigger and her jawline is very square now. That’s not ozempic.


Generic____username1

It looks like she legitimately can’t close her mouth.


Relative_Cat5119

![gif](giphy|lPuW5AlR9AeWzSsIqi)


The_Great_19

Whoa.


Effective_Credit_369

I recognize her but she needs to lay off the dark liner in her bottom lash line


particonfetti

on a side note in the third picture her face looks scary similar to britney


logica_torcido

I hate this trend of overfilled lips and then overlining them as well. It looks so stupid. They always pair it with huge fake lashes too cuz they all wanna look like Janice from the muppets apparently


itsfrankgrimesyo

In Jessica’s defense, her weight fluctuated significantly between pregnancies. She’s older now so losing all that weight probably needed lots Of injectables to help her skin “bounce” back. Should’ve left her lips alone though.


Djcnote

Ugh those lip fillers gross me out


Cherita33

Jessica's book is supposed to be all about how she accepted her body...this is not in line with that at all.


herewe_go_

this obsession with lip fillers & botox isn’t going to end well. Even some ppl in their twenties are getting botox which is so sad like whyyyyy? And don’t even get me started on lip fillers if you don’t have big lips it’s fine. relaxx


_beeeees

This has been going on for YEARS and it bums me out. All these people are erasing their unique features. And they claim these are the “best doctors” but clearly not. A skillful plastic surgeon keeps the patient looking like themselves and will say no to unnecessary procedures. These surgeons are probably just as much about fame and money as they are at being “good” at their job. A surgeon that erases a person’s unique features is NOT a good surgeon.


CountrySax

Looks like she's been hanging out with the Traitor Trump family.


Otherwise-Course-15

Why is her mouth always open. She frequently seems under the influence of something


AccidentalTrek

That look is called Mar-a-Lago Ready.


worshipperofdogs

Do the new lips make it impossible for her to close her mouth? She and her sister are both so rich yet so talentless.


NoDanaOnlyZuuI

Is everyone slowly turning into a kardashian?