{"id":90,"date":"2017-01-10T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-01-23T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T02:57:00","slug":"life-plastic-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/2017\/01\/10\/life-plastic-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Life In Plastic It&#8217;s Fantastic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">As Barbie famously proclaimed: &#8220;Life in plastic it&#8217;s fantastic&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">But is that the reality?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>There have been countless times that I have been shocked by what the tabloids produce in their headlines. And I&#8217;m not talking about the shocking political\u00a0stories, or the next\u00a0debate regarding\u00a0global warming&#8230; I&#8217;m talking about the disastrous experiments\u00a0that &#8216;normal people&#8217; are participating\u00a0in an attempt to morph into celebrities through plastic surgery. A headline at which my\u00a0common repose is just to release\u00a0an exasperating\u00a0sigh of &#8220;oh, no not another one?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You must remember last year when Jack Johnson\u00a0took\u00a0over our television screens, headlines\u00a0and twitter feeds as the latest\u00a0to attempt to look like celebrity.\u00a0He underwent countless surgeries to look like David Beckham, the resemblance was uncanny (<em>not<\/em>). Don&#8217;t remember? Lucky you! Here is a quick recap; he spent \u00a320,000 on procedures on his cheeks, chin, eyebrows, teeth, lips and tanning injections in an attempt to achieve his desired &#8216;Beckham look&#8217;. And who wouldn&#8217;t want to look like David Beckham, the former England captain was even crowned <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/david-beckham-is-peoples-sexiest-man-alive\/\"><em>People<\/em> magazine\u2019s Sexiest Man Alive in 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u00a0appeared on a number of popular TV shows to debut his &#8216;new and improved&#8217; look, including popular day time TV show <em>This Morning<\/em>. He discussed how many doctors have turned him away from gastric band requests as they see he does not actually require one. But despite the fact he is \u00a320,000 in debt, he plans to spend a another \u00a330,000 more!<\/p>\n<p>He states on the show &#8220;I do love myself, I just want to look like David Beckham. Who doesn\u2019t? No one can say he\u2019s ugly or unattractive. Even people who aren\u2019t a fan.&#8221; But if he truly loved himself why did he feel the need to change into someone else, rather than loving his own appearance?<\/p>\n<p>Check out this video below where he discusses his surgery live on This Morning:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VxzlCdPxlYM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many people took to the social networking site Twitter, to voice their anger at the &#8216;waste&#8217; of benefits and how it is a sham that he was allowed to go this far in the first place:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.27.31-300x128.png\" alt=\"tweet \" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.27.31-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.27.31-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.27.31.png 1016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.37.13-300x126.png\" alt=\"tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.37.13-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.37.13-768x323.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.37.13.png 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.28.38-300x126.png\" alt=\"tweet \" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.28.38-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.28.38-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-13.28.38.png 1016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">It doesn&#8217;t stop there &#8230;<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This is not the first time (and probably won&#8217;t be the last) that someone has attempted\u00a0to mimic a celebrities appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013 we saw Toby Sheldon in the spotlight after spending $100,000 US dollars on surgery in order to look like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2468391\/Justin-Bieber-fan-Toby-Sheldon-33-100k-plastic-surgery-look-like-idol.html\">Justin Bieber\u00a0<\/a>. Sheldon who is 14 years older than the Canadian pop-sensation spent 5 years having numerous surgeries including face fillers, a chin reduction and even eyelid surgery (who even knew that was a thing?!) in an attempt to look like Bieber. The super-fan even appeared on the plastic surgery horror story series Botched.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, in 2015, Sheldon was found dead in a motel room in San Fernando, with his death being recored due to &#8220;multiple drug intoxication&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/rs_600x600-140711111128-600.Toby-Sheldon-Justin-Bieber.ms_.071114-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"sheldon to bieber \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/rs_600x600-140711111128-600.Toby-Sheldon-Justin-Bieber.ms_.071114-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/rs_600x600-140711111128-600.Toby-Sheldon-Justin-Bieber.ms_.071114-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/rs_600x600-140711111128-600.Toby-Sheldon-Justin-Bieber.ms_.071114.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(Sheldon left, Bieber right)<\/h6>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">&#8216;Celebrities&#8217; can come in all shapes and sizes<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ordinary people are more frequently aspiring to be like their idols\u00a0and in the case of Grant Coulson, moulding himself to look like\u00a0a real-life doll. A recent article printed by the\u00a0newspaper<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2524889\/plastic-surgery-addict-who-wants-to-look-like-a-real-life-doll-wants-a-nose-job-on-the-nhs-because-he-says-its-too-big\/\"> <em>The Sun <\/em><\/a>, it documents how the unemployed 25 year old \u00a0&#8220;has already had fillers for acne scars paid for by taxpayers but now wants further work on his face&#8221;. Coulson has claimed to doctors that he has difficultly breathing to persuade them to reduce his nose size and states &#8220;that it is looking likely I will get it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-17.40.41-1024x706.png\" alt=\"the sun newspaper\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-17.40.41-1024x706.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-17.40.41-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-17.40.41-768x529.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-04-at-17.40.41.png 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>(Article headline from The Sun newspaper from 3rd January 2017)<\/h6>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">Why is this happening?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has hard to pin-point exactly why ordinary people are undergoing these expensive surgeries and procedures that not only dramatically effect their bank account but that can also have dangerous and life-threatening\u00a0consequences.<\/p>\n<p>One psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman explained to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/celebrity\/blogs\/celeb-news\/burning-why-people-getting-plastic-surgery-look-celebs-204934796.html?ref=gs\">Yahoo<\/a><\/em>\u00a0how \u201cConsciously or unconsciously, people think that if they look like a particular celebrity, it will bring them the power a celebrity has, the power to attract people, to be a heartbreaker, to have guys or girls swooning over them.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #50b7bf;\">Thank you for reading this post! 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And I&#8217;m not talking about the shocking political\u00a0stories, or the next\u00a0debate regarding\u00a0global warming&#8230; I&#8217;m talking about the disastrous experiments\u00a0that &#8216;normal people&#8217; are participating\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,6,8,12,11,15,9,5,7,16,14,10,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/lucybryce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}