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What’s on today: A Sunday Scribblings prompt looking into a worrying aspect of cosmetic surgery … PLUS … A couple of ramblings from a short time back. And a whodunit.
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CELEBRITY CREATIONS
Many in Britain have followed the life of Jordan for years. Who is Jordan? Real name, Katie Price, she was a ‘model’ who went on a mission to have the biggest breasts in Britain. Enlargement after enlargement followed.
As did various other ‘cosmetics’, and coupled with a seemingly wild lifestyle, she epitomized the idea of celebrity without talent. But Jordan took her ‘celebrity’ to new heights.
It began on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here.
On this survivalist reality show, she met and courted singer Peter Andre in front of the cameras, and since then, she’s lived an entire family life, with kids, through reality shows.
Hopefully, Jordan has a real life under this publicity façade. But recently there’s been a change. Perhaps embracing motherhood, she’s changed her hair, reduced her breasts, got rid of the tan and had a new nose. Estimated cost £40,000.
This is perhaps the most worrying aspect of all.
We go through various changes in our life, but Jordan seems to have done so in a totally material way. The ultimate in consumerdom, she has changed her ‘personality’ through the knife.
Totally living in the material and the media eye, she has become, literally, her own creationist – a media image in plastic – and has surely confirmed that the throw away society now includes the person.
Somehow, it terrifies me.
© Anthony North, January 2008
This is a post inspired by aSunday Scribblings prompt. Have you had a go yet?
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