The mad obsession of the artistic elite body is nothing new. Brian Dillon observed that many celebrities are "lumpy in strangeness pumped in the gym filleted, and the surgeon sewed, embalmed in Botox" and "rather than survivors, people who go places to stop." From Howard Hughes to Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson with perceived physical imperfection success mixes bring "pain, which can only be treated with opiates." If religion is the opium of the people Demerol works quite well for the rich and famous.
Fretting over his own body has become "an essential prerequisite for the consideration of modern fame," noted Dillon, based on the number of morbidly obsessed with the celebrities in a "state of almost constant near-collapse."
He marveled that "few, historically, had such resources or opportunities for self-mutilation as the rich and famous in our century." When we look at Celebrity Bodies to know to achieve the monetary and physical costs of physical perfection, we are working with awe and repulsion, envy and resentment.
People Magazine, the bellwether of the conventional celebrity culture, at regular intervals details of this phenomenon.
An article last year exposed to plastic surgery addiction is a particularly spectacular example of self-mutilation. Monday, already attractive, and then only 23, underwent head to toe plastic surgery procedures with ten in a single day. By the time she saw her surgery as an investment in the future career as a pop star in the magnitude of Britney Spears, the apotheosis of the celebrity in almost constant near-collapse.
Just one year later revealed Monday photo shoot for Life & Style Magazine her surgical scars, and uneven body parts. Said "surgery ruined my career and my personal life," Monday: "I regret nothing, but go back if I could, I would not do it."
Monday has something in common with the famous ascetics of the Christian faith. The Christian ascetic humbled to imitate Christ's suffering flesh, hoping to be bound forever with the Suffering Servant. Practices ranged from self-inflicted serious injuries to hungry look of a cucumber.
"The necessity of mortification of the flesh stands clearly revealed if we consider the fragility of our nature," said Paul IV, because flesh and spirit are in opposite directions had desires, since the sin of Adam. "This exercise of bodily mortification - far removed from any form of stoicism - does not want to take a condemnation of the flesh, which rested the Son of God, on the contrary, the killing of." Liberation "of human aims." In the Catholic Catechism: "The way of perfection passes through the cross."
Monday prayed to her operation for a long time, but never felt that the operation was wrong. Fairytale dream, not the identification with the suffering servant driven, Monday to go under the knife. She was, she claimed, an "ugly duckling" before the operation, with protruding ears like Dumbo. She saw her post-op body as a Cinderella story, but she realized she would need further surgery to make it "as perfect as I can."
While the ascetics were against the suffering servant, as measured against Monday actresses like Angelina Jolie. Monday ached for the economic success much hurt in the ascetic way of eternal perfection through suffering.
The suffering was substantial. The aftermath of Operation Monday made to feel weak and fragile and at one point after the operation she was in so much pain that she wanted to die right then. In her extreme pain, she asked for more Demerol to slow their breathing significantly. She felt her life slipping away.
While some dismiss the fight Monday, what responsibility we bear for their actions? Dillon argues celebrities undergo the struggle for physical perfection "for us and our morbid fears projected for our own bodies."
Combat those who would criticize, said Monday: "There is something in it, that God cares about." If, as maintained Monday, her body is "just a shell", then self-mutilation could be a lot of sense, how to make a good career move. Like the ascetics physical agony endured in search of eternal reward in the kingdom endured excruciating elective surgery Monday for reward in this life.
Monday wants a culture that is envied her body, but disapproves of their extreme measures to win. It measures against troubled tales and actresses such as Angelina Jolie and pop stars like Spears. Her admirers and critics compare to submit to her and the same agony.
Hindsight offers a perspective. With the results of its operations into clear relief, we can better resist the temptation, envy, knowing that the scalpel will not bring us to live healthy and happy. If we succeed, we might even release these celebrities from the bondage of their quest for physical perfection in this life.
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