Hollywood Less Enchanted with Plastic Surgery These Days

Many Hollywood stars and wannabes have altered their appearance with plastic surgery, believing that larger breasts, straighter noses and unlined faces are the key to landing choice movie projects and high-paying roles. Now, more and more casting directors and movie executives are changing their views on what makes a desirable actor.

Some actresses get nose jobs and it changes their appearance for the better, but getting a nose job is credited with ruining Jennifer Grey’s career after she starred in Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze. Turns out viewers and decision-makers in Hollywood liked her somewhat larger and non-perfect nose better than the surgically enhanced version that took away her unique look.

In particular, women are losing roles if they have had breast augmentation, or are not even getting an audition. Some casting call advertisements even specify that only women with real breasts need apply.

Some television executives now recruit for natural-looking actors in other countries, because Los Angeles actors show up to auditions with obvious plastic surgery-enhanced bodies. Even older actresses, who once felt they had to to look younger in order to get work, are feeling the backlash. The taut, shiny face look from too much filler just doesn’t translate into a believable character on film. Naturally aging faces are in.

Not that the business of plastic surgery is slacking off because of this growing Hollywood trend. There were more than 10 million aesthetic and plastic surgery procedures performed in the U.S. last year.