Gotta say it: I don’t care for Ashley Tisdale’s new nose. The High School Musical series star recently went public with her new nose in order to set the record straight before the tabloids killed her like they did a few years ago with Jennifer Grey. That star of Dirty Dancing also had a normal nose, by which I mean it made her look like a real human being instead of just another plastic movie star. The plastic surgery that Jennifer Grey went under left her looking completely different. In fact, Jennifer Grey post-surgery looked so much like a thousand other starlets that she was no longer recognizable to many producers as the star of one of the biggest cult movies of the 80s. As a result, not many people have seen a Jennifer Grey movie lately.
Ashley Tisdale’s nose job is actually, allegedly, closer in line to that of the recent rhinoplasty of megastar, and one of the most overrated beauties of the past decade, Cameron Diaz. When Diaz says that her nose job was a matter of life and death because of septum deviations caused by multiple breakages of her schnoz, I’m inclined to believe her. Diaz’s nose, after all, ran in nearly as many different directions as that Aussie fellow on CNN who keeps telling the truth about Iraq. A deviated septum that needed repair is also Ashley Tisdale’s justification for turning her face from something that contained a bit of wabi-sabi into just another indistinguishable blonde starlet with a perfect a nose. There is no reason to not believe Tisdale, of course. While her nose hardly had the twists and turns of Diaz, it was just enough off to be believable that keeping it the way it was could be a health hazard.
But.
Ashley Tisdale’s nose looks as different today as Jennifer Grey’s looked when she got a nose job. In fact, Tisdale’s and Grey’s noses were somewhat similar. While neither was hardly the stuff of the classic Hollywood bombshells, both were hardly well out of the Julia Roberts bottom of the barrel ugly horseface station. In Tisdale’s case, in fact, I’d put her at least on a par with many overrated “beauties” like Scarlet Johansson, and about a thousand degrees above someone like Sarah Jessica Parker. The point is, however, that a pre-surgery Ashley Tisdale didn’t need a nose job like Halle Berry. (And even Berry’s nose job still didn’t make her the great beauty everyone seems to think she is, but that is the last I will write on that sensitive subject.) This article is not intended as an indictment of Tisdale for getting a nose job, but rather to call into question the idea that just perhaps, just possibly, Cameron Diaz may have spawned the great justification for those girls wanting a nose job for purely cosmetic reasons. Because, after all, how easy can it really be to prove that Tisdale didn’t have a deviated septum? Or, for that matter, the next young starlet who decides to get a nose job? Or, for that matter, the next young waitress or store clerk? We may soon be seeing any number of young women with only slightly bent or crooked noses getting nose jobs and telling us that it was done for health reasons.
I sincerely hope that Ashley Tisdale’s was necessary and that the surgery fixed the problem. Because now Tisdale, whose nose gave her the same kind of distinction that turned an average looking woman with a mole on her face into one of the most sought-after supermodels of the late 80s and early 90s, now looks no different from 10,000 other young blonde women who soon be fighting for the same roles.
