Jennifer Grey Before Her Nose Job
Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey’s Hollywood dreams were shattered after a “nose job from hell” changed her appearance so drastically, she looked nothing like her former self. The 1980s star’s promising career ground to a complete halt overnight in the early 1990s because suddenly nobody recognised her – and even friends would blank her when she bumped into them.
She says, “I went in the operating theatre a celebrity – and come out anonymous. It was like being in a witness protection program or being invisible. I remember going to a restaurant where I had been going for years. I ran into people I knew and would say, ‘Hey.’ Nothing. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes… because of a nose job.”
Source: starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/10/30/nose_job_ruined_dirty_dancing_star_s_car
When I first read this, I thought here’s another celebrity blaming career issues on bad plastic surgery. I figure she might have a point however. It is hard to know of course. She did have a very characteristic look back then. It is conceivable that after her nose job she looked too generic. It wasn’t bad work. It just changed her.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
it wasn’t just a nose job – pretty sure her hooded eyes were done as well. Perhaps if she had only done her nose, she would be more recognizable.