14 DAY TRIAL // Heidi Montag, star of MTV’s reality show “The Hills” and aspiring singer, stepped up in the recent issue of People magazine to admit to a very serious addiction to plastic surgery and even to reveal she’s had as much as 10 procedures done in a single day. Emmy Rossum, a well respected actress, singer and songwriter, is now taking to her Twitter page to blast this “glamorization” of cosmetic surgery.
Rossum starts her post by saying that seeing a young woman so desperate about having work done on her face and body should be reason for concern and under no circumstance merit silent approval by being plastered on the cover of a widely circulated magazine. By allowing Montag to make her story known to the general public, People magazine is sending the wrong message that such behavior is not only acceptable but something other women should aspire to as well.
This completely sidesteps the fact that, call it what you will, any surgical intervention for cosmetic purposes is not a good thing. “It upsets me to see young women in the spotlight advocating plastic surgery. ANY surgery is extremely dangerous & should not be taken lightly, much less, used as a tool to increase notoriety or popularity,” Emmy tweets. More importantly, running such stories takes the focus off other, truly important matters and that’s what should trouble us the most.
“By putting this on magazine covers, we are somehow legitimizing the dangerous lengths to which some will go for fame and ‘beauty.’ There are so many REAL ISSUES in this world that NEED attention. Let’s try to take a moment to be grateful we are ALIVE,” the actress further writes. Her tweet has already been picked up by several major media outlets both in the US and abroad, especially since Heidi Montag’s claim to fame is questionable at best, even when her many surgical interventions are taken into account.
We were also telling you the other day that Montag had just released her often-delayed debut album, “Superficial.” Whereas other singers, both male and female, choose to promote their materials by doing interviews on their music, Heidi has opted for the more convenient and controversial way of talking about how she aims to find the “best of me” by means of plastic surgery.
