Posted on 05/05/2010 10:31:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono
"I felt it was a defect," she said. As a teenager, "It was a central obsession in my self-hatred. ... I felt like it was all anyone saw when they looked at me."
At 14, she asked her parents for surgery. A few years later, after she graduated from high school, Weiss got her wish -- rhinoplasty reduced the bump on her nose and pared down the tip.
Despite her new petite nose, Weiss began to regret her adolescent decision as she matured.
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Thanks for sharing — the armpit hair is a nice touch.
>Thanks for sharing — the armpit hair is a nice touch.
LOL!
Soooo... who is she?
Her nose is the lease of her problems...
With time, I was able to crack my former self-perception. In college, I entered my first relationship with a woman and began to feel attractive and desirable—another first. I spent a semester in Florence, suspended in what seemed like a whirling dream of bicurious girls trying to bed me. Would that have been possible with my old nose?
I had spent my first postcollege year in San Francisco, but my father asked me to return to New York because of his waning health. Within a few weeks, I met a woman and one night accidentally fell asleep at her apartment, waking at 5 a.m. to discover 16 messages from my mother on my cell phone. I rushed home and tearfully came clean. My mother lambasted me for deceit and pronounced my sexuality a “phase.”
From then on, my father was polite to me at family occasions, but increasingly distant. One Father’s Day, I had a trophy made for him, which he received with indifference. When I bought tickets to “Seeing Debussy, Hearing Monet” at Carnegie Hall for his birthday, he declined, blaming his health.
My mother filled the gap, vilifying me and my “choices” even after I moved in with my girlfriend. She told me the news had aggravated my father’s health, that he couldn’t sleep at night because he was so distraught.
Barbra Striesand?
That’s not a hint. That’s aggravated assault.
That’s her all right!
Exactly.
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Ewwww!
I always wondered what happened to her....she looks gorgeous with the new nose.
gads, what a cow.
I'm agnostic on rhinoplasty, but I admire the phrase "OEM nose."
She's hilarious, likes to dance, drinks with the guys, brings hot girls with her when she comes out, and is very smart.
Her nose is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. If she got it done, she would literally be perfect since the rest of her face/hair is incredible.
I just don't get how she doesn't realize...
The new one makes it easier to put Baby in the corner.
IATW, in my non-professioinal opinion, age 14 is too early to make such a decision, esp. when the nose she had appeared quite normal. Face and body are still undergoing development and maturation processes, and a very few years later, in addition to her having become (one hopes) a more mature person in non-physical ways, she might well have decided to leave well enough alone.
“In college, I entered my first relationship with a woman and began to feel attractive and desirable—another first. I spent a semester in Florence, suspended in what seemed like a whirling dream of bicurious girls trying to bed me. Would that have been possible with my old nose?”
Sounds like her obsession with her nose is the least of her problems.
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