Celebrity Rhinoplasty Stories

Why Have a Rhinoplasty ?

There are several medical reasons to have a nose job which include trauma, a deviated septum (the inside of the nose is deformed creating breathing problems), and disease. However the large majority of nose remodelings performed today are for esthetic reasons which is newspeak for, “we don’t like our nose.”

Since from 5% to 15% of nose operations require a second operation (depending on the surgeon you select), and because after the operation you will wake up looking like you lost a title bout against the WBA Heavyweight title holder (Black eyes are common for a few days following a rhinoplasty), you need to make sure of two things: that you select the right surgeon, and that you want and need a nose job. Therefore, this site has two objectives; to make sure that your motivations for this operation are real, and that if you decide to have a rhinoplasty, to find the best possible specialist to perform this operation.

Why Most People Want a Rhinoplasty

The reason most people want a nose job is because their noses are NOT average. Very recently a study was made to help define beauty as seen by both men and women; the findings were eye-opening. Different real pictures of men and women were shown to the opposite sex along with one picture that was not real. This one picture was a composite of hundreds of women (for the women picture) and hundreds of men (for the man picture) which resulted in an average man and an average woman. Based on the voting results of hundreds of men and women, the “average” composite pictures were declared the winners as the most attractive or beautiful. Why? It seems that we are genetically programmed not to like asymmetry in the opposite sex because, that could be the sign of a genetic defect that they could pass on to our children, if we chose them as a reproductive mate.

In other words, we want our noses to be average to show possible sexual partners that if they have children with us, the children will not have some form of genetic defect! Or, in modern terms, when we post our picture on a dating web site like Mary.com, we want to get some traffic on our profile. This poses certain questions that you need to examine more deeply.

What If Everyone Had Your Nose?

Imagine that everyone on this planet had exactly your nose. If this were the case, you would not want a rhinoplasty, because your nose would be average and unnoticable.  Or, imagine that you were Greek and lived in a small Greek village where almost everyone has a big nose, because that’s a genetic trait that’s been passed on for thousands of generations. You would look downright silly if you decided to downsize to an Irish pug nose or a Meg Ryan slightly turned-up nose or even a smaller perfectly straight and slender nose that are the trademarks of all the ladies that make it to the front cover of Glamour or Elle. Have you ever noticed the noses on these super models? Probably not, because they are average, they fit their slender slightly oval faces and they literally disappear.

If you want to test this, go to Face Research and try out their program that lets you select faces and make a composite of all the faces you have selected. Not surpringly, the composite you created will be a picture of the perfect man/woman that you would like to meet because all the slight asymmetry in each picture will have been averaged out to create the perfect creature with whom you would like to mate. Ahh, if only, right? But, after you have had a rhinoplasty, you will have done exactly what this site does with surgery. You will have made your nose average and indistinguishable from other noses. By the way, you can also do this with just your nose on our site at Visualize Your Rhinoplasty.

Admittedly, Sarah Jessica Parker eventually did have a nose job (and removed the mole), Owen Wilson would look better with one, and these other supporting actors were never played in many movies as leading men or women because American movie-goers want their leading men and women to be attractive or beautiful.

Gerard Depardieu however, is French, and in France leading men are allowed to have physical imperfections because the critical Gallic mind is predisposed to believe that perfection is not possible, which is also why French movies are not very popular in America, because the stories are about people with authentic problems and therefore, Hollywoodian happy endings are not possible.  Take for example the story of Cyrano de Bergerac  the story about a man (Cyrano) with a very big nose who falls in love with a beautiful woman (Roxane) and can only write to her or speak behind bushes because he is fearful his nose will offend her.

Below is one of Cyrano's most famous quotes directed at someone who made fun of his nose:

"My nose is Gargantuan! You little pig-snout, you tiny monkey-nostrils, you virtually invisible Pekinese-puss, don't you realize that a nose like mine is both scepter and orb, a monument to my superiority? A great nose is the banner of a great man, a generous heart, a towering spirit, an expansive soul--such as I unmistakably am, and such as you dare not to dream of being, with your bilious weasel's eyes and no nose to keep them apart! With your face as lacking in all distinction--as lacking, I say, in interest, as lacking in pride, in imagination, in honesty, in lyricism--in a word, as lacking in nose as that other offensively bland expanse at the opposite end of your cringing spine--which I now remove from my sight by stringent application of my boot!"