And we thought this could happen only to the likes of Michael Jackson! The 34-year-old star is horrified of the way her nose looks, especially after seeing more recent pictures and comparing them to others taken a few years ago.

Some time after she quit cocaine, her nose started to collapse and she had to have the cartilage removed. She was left with a caved-in nose that she chose to hide with Botox shots and lots of make up.

But recently, she attended a ceremony and people just started to make down right fun of her and of her beak. That's why, although scared to death when it comes to surgery, she contacted a top surgeon who scheduled her for the job sometime next week.

One of Tara's closest friends says that the star is aware that the damage is done and, even more, that she brought it all on herself, but that doesn't justify people always picking on her and reminding her of past mistakes when she clearly has been clean as a pipe for a long time.

The friend also claimed that Palmer has been so terrified by the way people react when they see her Jackson-style nose that, at one point, she even refused to come out of her house. Now that she finally mustered the courage to have it fixed, she is hoping that people (and especially the media) will forget about those days when she used to snort huge quantities of the Class A drug.