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> ~~~ thanks Bhangra. This photo of Cher is so painfully revealing ... the

> " after " photos of facial cheek implants. Ilena ~~~

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> story:

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> Plastic Surgery Disasters

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> Cher's current photo:

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> They kid themselves it will make them beautiful or turn back time -

> but a growing number of female Hollywood stars are ending up

> freakishly distorted after going under the surgeon's knife once too

> often.

>

> , who runs a New York-based beauty consultancy offering

> advice on cosmetic surgery procedures, says increasing numbers of

> well-known women are pushing the boundaries of plastic surgery too far

> and destroying their looks in the process.

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> " I see more and more celebrities going over the top with surgery, "

> says . " It's common in Hollywood, where there's tremendous

> pressure to look good. The problem is, some don't know when to stop.

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> " One of the most common problems I see is overdone noses - stars tend

> to have far too much taken off, so they end up with pinched-looking

> noses that are way too small for the face. Another pitfall is too

> many, or oversized, facial implants that give a very unnatural facial

> shape - and 'duck lips' which are overplump lips with ridges that

> interfere with the natural ability to smile and pucker.

>

> " Then there are those who have one too many face lifts - the skin is

> stretched to the limit giving a 'wind tunnel' look. Everyone has some

> lines of experience - even when we're young - and when these are

> stretched out, you stop looking human. "

>

> Pressure to look good may not be the only reason women go over the

> top. " There are those who do it simply because they have too much

> money, not enough to do and too little self esteem - look at Jocelyn

> Wildenstein for example, says . " Then there are those who are

> clearly emotionally unstable, like Jordan who has turned herself into

> a bust on legs. These people really need to see a therapist, not a

> plastic surgeon. For me 'too much' is when the basic anatomy has been

> distorted out of proportion, and it can often be that last little

> tweak that pushes the patient over that line. Good cosmetic surgery is

> never obvious and these celebrities do not represent what a

> responsible surgeon can achieve - they are freaks. "

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> Cher

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> Years of trying to keep the wrinkles at bay have finally taken their

> toll on Cher - an excess of plastic surgery has almost totally changed

> her face, as these shocking recent pictures show. " Cher has an

> obsession with looking younger than her 55 years, but she's had so

> much surgery even she knows she's gone too far, " says an insider.

> " It's killing her that she's ruined her looks. "

>

> The singer has never made any secret of her love for the appliance of

> science, saying, " I believe in face lifts and nips and tucks. If I

> need something done, I'll do it " . But the list of bodily parts she has

> tinkered with reads like the ingredients of an economy sausage - they

> include her nose, teeth, cheeks, stomach, buttocks and navel. Her last

> major work three years ago included a brow lift, work on her upper and

> lower eyelids, a face lift and a neck lift, laser skin resurfacing,

> collagen lip implants and botox injections and cost an estimated

> $190,000.

>

> But the excessive surgery has left her face distorted and skin

> stretched unnaturally tight in some places and weirdly wrinkled in

> others. As a result, she has been forced to turn to lighting trickery

> and heavy make-up to conceal her true appearance - as one who worked

> on a shoot for her up-coming album " Living Proof " can testify. " She

> looked great on camera - they had special lights, highlighting parts

> of her face. But when you got up close you could see the ravages of

> time under the special lavender coloured foundation she had on, " says

> the eyewitness.

>

> Insiders believe that Cher has made the mistake of choosing surgeons

> on the basis of how far they were prepared to go rather than subtlety

> - and the result is not rated highly by experts in the field. " On a

> scale from one to ten, I'd rate the forehead, brows and upper eyelids

> a two, " says Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Stone. " Together

> with the removal of fat from the upper eyelids, she's been left with a

> hollowed-out look - a very unnatural appearance. And her cheeks have

> been over-augmented. " But despite her bizarre appearance, it seems

> unlikely that Cher will give up on surgery just yet. " I hate my 50s -

> they suck, " she told a friend. " I never felt old until I hit my

> half-century. Now it's a battle to keep everything together. "

>

> Farrah Fawcett

> Her stunning looks as one of Charlie's Angels captivated a generation

> of men and she became the $5.5 million face of Faberge. But Farrah

> Fawcett is looking far from angelic these days - instead, one trip to

> the plastic surgeon too many has left the 70s sex bomb looking

> decidedly odd. Insiders believe that Farrah, 53, has recently acquired

> a new -style nose, which has tipped her over the edge

> from well-preserved to plain weird.

>

> Farrah has always refused to grow old gracefully. In 1995 she posed

> for Playboy and smeared herself in mud for a nude video. Then, in

> 1998, she spent $41,000 on a complete plastic surgery overhaul which

> included a brow lift, eye tuck, nose job and a special procedure to

> tighten and push up her breasts. But now it seems Farrah has tried to

> turn the clock back further still with another nose job. Gossip that

> she had been on a new surgery binge started two months ago when her

> face looked puffy and swollen on chat shows to promote her role in

> Spin City.

>

> She denied the rumours, claiming she had simply put on weight after

> spending two weeks at her parents' home in Texas. " I porked up. My

> parents fed me a lot of eggs, bacon and muffins, " she said.

>

> But plastic surgery experts say she has clearly had more work done.

> " She's been looking funny for several months now, but this is a little

> much, " says one Miami-based surgeon. " Some patients are addicted to

> surgery - and if Farrah isn't, she's close. "

>

> For more plastic surgery disasters including Manhattan socialite

> Jocelyn Wildenstein, and Jordan get NW magazine on

> news stands now.

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