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Finally, Some Actually Good Plastic Surgery

We’ve been giving too much credit to really bad work.

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Mar 25, 2026
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For this exercise, there’s only one winner.

If you’re one of those “well, let’s not police womens’ bodies,” types… just please keep scrolling, because this conversation just isn’t for you. At a certain point, at a certain level, at a certain volume of plastic surgery and injectable work, we’re no longer discussing their bodies, we’re discussing the skill and heavy-handedness (mostly the heavy-handedness) of the providers they’re paying to chop them up. We can never police or criticize a botched, surgery-obsessed celebrity woman (or man) more than they police themselves. We can never hate their eyelids more than they hate them themselves. And to you, the masses they lie to and whose confidence they damage on their ride to millions — just stand up! fight back!

I’m usually a hater when it comes to fake faces, but that’s usually because we really haven’t seen much work worth applauding. Enter Denise Richards! Not the new and improved Denise, but something much better — a near accurate version of her younger self.

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