It used to be that Jewish princes and princesses had the corner on plastic surgery with nose jobs at 16, then a few nips and tucks after they’d become kings and queens and the castle starting sagging. It’s always been something of a quest for our kind to fit in, to look a little more like the Anglo-Saxon neighbors, to be a little more Farrah and little less Barbra. Our parents wanted that for us, and many of us have been happy with our new noses and corrected overbites. But nowadays, even the plumber has had lipo and an eye lift– it’s just so damn bourgeois already.
We agree with J. Weekly‘s Jessica Ravitz, who thinks it’s just gone too far. With icky shows like “The Swan,” where contestants compete for a beauty pageant sash by undergoing a dozen different surgical “improvements” and leaving their dignity behind with their sucked-out fat tissue, she wonders what this evil “entertainment” teaches young Jewish children (hint; nothing good.) We say screw homogenous, ridiculous beauty ideals. Let’s love our schnozzes, people, and teach the children to love theirs.