Happened to all the faces.
So last night
I'm watching one of my favorite Christmas movies from the 80s,
Scrooged, where Karen Allen plays the ingenue.
Here's Karen Allen right here.
This is her real face. This is a very real,
like, smile
lines around the eyes, a gummy smile.
And I'm not saying that is a bad thing.
I think she has a beautiful smile.
I'm just saying that this is what a real person looks like.
And she was the ingenue, the main love interest in not only this,
but the Indiana Jones franchise.
Ingenue, ingenue,
ingenue. Rest in peace.
But also an ingenue. This group of women
has some of the most prolific acting credits of all time.
And all of them look like real people.
Beautiful people, don't get me wrong.
But how many of these people
do you think would pass for modern day beauty standards?
We've known for a while that the proliferation of plastic surgery
is becoming more embedded in our culture,
but I don't think we've really internalized how much it's happening.
Until you start to look at groups of women
that are taking up major space in pop culture,
in society, and realizing that all of them.
All of them are having work done to themselves
to the point that not only are they starting to look like each other,
but that they're not even looking like who they actually are.
I have loved this actress,
Megan Fahey, from before
she Was on the White Lotus before she was even on The Bold Type.
But because she used to be on Broadway.
But when she was on The Bold Type,
he looked like this. This is a real person.
This is what she looked like when she was on Broadway.
And obviously so many of us have grown up with Lindsay Lohan,
but just a few years ago, this was Lindsay Lohan.
And even in this picture, Lindsay Lohan has had work done.
Really think a lot of it is coming from the fact
that we expect our actresses nowadays
to look like supermodels, whereas supermodels used to be supermodels
and actresses were actresses.
And don't get me wrong,
cause I know there's gonna be someone in the comments
who wants to fight. There absolutely have always been models who acted
and actors who modeled, but never to this extent.
But it wasn't like this.
Nowadays there's this sad nostalgia of watching something that's older
and seeing real faces
and actors who made their way to the top of their craft,
not because they were the most beautiful and the Pinnacle of sexiness,
but because they were amazing actors.
I'm not saying that you can't be an amazing actress
and be the face of beauty in 2025.
I am saying that the more we reward a certain type of beauty
that often has undertones of white supremacy,
we steal from the craft. We steal from true art.
Cause at the end, Of the day.
Our faces are our stories.
They are what's passed down to us through generations.
And if your face can't move and you look like everyone else,
what story are you telling