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Originally Posted by Benzgirl
I can't watch this any longer; she drives me crazy and the flat iron and hair color are on overload.
I actually enjoyed when she was in NYC, but can't deal with the LA gold diggers any more. I remember a quote from Patty when she was in NYC that the East Coast girls are more proud of their brains and the West Coast girls are more proud of their bodies. I guess that puts me in the East.
#boycotting
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I think when she says West Coast girl, she's talking about a certain section of the West Coast. Obviously my opinion is just that, and based on anecdotal evidence, but the people I know like being known for intellectual accomplishments, as well as being healthy. Maybe she's discussing the microcosm of where ellebud lives, considering that is where she is filming.
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Originally Posted by ellebud
Serious answer VandalSquirrel: In my circle of friends and acquaintances there are women who have lived here all their lives, immigrants from Iran and Russian and a few people who moved here. I am also including children who had nose jobs, ear pinnings, chin implants, boob jobs etc. botox, restylane, and other injectables. Some are life long friends. I don't know a single family where someone hasn't had work done. When I was in high school I was mad that I had a good nose, so I could join the nose plaster gang.
I was going to have a facelift around now I felt....until I got cancer 5 years ago. Enough.
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I technically had a nose job due to my sinus issues. I had a deviated septum/broken nose and had it fixed so I could breathe easier, my nose is exactly the same as it always was, so I don't think it counts since I had holes punched in my sinuses and my adenoids removed again during the surgery.
There are some women where I live now who get "work" done, but they are far and few between. Probably where you live it is just more part of the culture and no one thinks twice. I'm just guessing, but I think like me your "industry" adjacent (though my family ties are in production, not performance) and it is just what people do where you live. My uncle lives down your way and had some eye work, but in the end it was partially a result of genetics he needed it, but I think what he does for a living added the pressure. I know my cousins from Southern California are my only family members of my generation who had work, and the rest of the cousins thought she was a super freak for not only doing it, but showing it off.
Where I grew up is often so the opposite, the pressure to be so alternative, so green, so hip, and so on, can be just as hard as looking a certain way and having work done to do it.
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