Let’s be real, most celebrities have plastic surgery – it’s whether or not they admit it is the question. In today’s age, everyone seems to be obsessed with authenticity, yet so many famous faces won’t admit that those faces are well…fake. They influence almost every aspect of our beauty standards, so don’t they owe us a bit of transparency?
Beauty standards don’t just appear out of nowhere – celebrities create them. The Kardashians, for example, practically revived the big booty trend single-handedly. Every decade has its “it” girls (and guys) who define the look of the moment, whether it’s hyper-skinny, ultra-curvy, or something in between. But here’s the hard truth: many of those bodies weren’t built naturally, instead they were bought, tweaked and sculpted behind the scenes.
Which is fine…as long as you don’t pretend it’s real. The issue arises when the famous start to sell themselves as all natural. They deny any claims of surgery online or in interviews, and they leave young, impressionable audiences wondering – why don’t I look like that?
It intensifies a world of comparison. Suddenly, people are forced to chase results that aren’t just unrealistic, but sometimes biologically impossible without intervention. When celebrities start hiding these elected procedures, they are contributing to an already disingenuous illusion of looks. We as a society are buying into this, rewarding deception over honesty.
To be fair, these celebrities are still human. They deserve a sense of privacy and the right to set boundaries. These people, because their career depends on looks, may also feel the pressure and need to look a certain way – making surgery feel like the only option. But, in the same breath, they profit on how they look, and it feels inappropriate and deceitful to profit off of an image that is fake. There’s responsibility that comes with that influence.
In all, celebrities ultimately lose an aspect of privacy when they choose to be in the public light. It is their duty as public figures to be honest and open about their appearance to their audiences. The best part? Being vulnerable often strengthens public connection, not weakens it.
