Bristol Palin says she had corrective jaw surgery

[joeybee12]

Note to Bristlecone...it's cosmetic surgery, no matter how your tiny flea-bitten, permafrost addled mind tries to spin it.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42987524/ns/today-entertainment/

Bristol Palin admits her recent change in appearance was due to a procedure — but not plastic surgery.

The 20-year-old daughter of 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells Us Weekly that she underwent corrective jaw surgery in December, a month after she finished third on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." Her face now appears thinner, with higher cheekbones and an angular jaw.

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The new look, complete with Palin losing 5 pounds, was unveiled April 30 at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C.

"Yes, it improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons," she told the magazine for its May 23 issue, which will be on newsstands Friday.

[handmade34]

1. no

it didn't improve the way she looks... despite who her mother is, she was beautiful before.

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. Agreed. It took a unique face

and made her look plain. She was really beautiful BEFORE. It's Jennifer Grey all over again.

[Deep13]

2. If Sarah has corrective jaw surgery, maybe she won't say so many stupid things. nt

[Auggie]

3. Media loves "celebrities" who achieve fame by doing nothing

[thereismore]

4. She is morphing into Snookie. She looked better with natural Native American features, IMO. nt

[LisaL]

6. What Native American features?

[dionysus]

18. i think tawd is all or part native american.

[LisaL]

24. He is 1/8 eskimo, from what I gather.

Which would make Bristol 1/16.

[Xithras]

33. Which, interestingly, is often enough.

My mother in law is 1/4 Native American. My wife is 1/8. Our kids are 1/16th. The rest of our genetics are almost exclusively Irish/Scot/German.

I'm paler than a snowflake, have bright blue eyes, and freckles. My wife has pale skin, but her face and many of her features are definitely from the Native American gene pool.

Two of our kids are pale and European looking. The third, my oldest son, is darker skinned, has dark brown hair, and could easily pass himself off as a full blooded native if he wanted. Most people here in California simply assume that he's hispanic when they first meet. He's far darker skinned than my wife or I, but when we looked at a photo of my MIL's 1/2 Native American mother, the resemblance was striking and unmistakable. There is NO SIGN that he's 15/16th's Irish/Scot/German. Well, almost no sign...the Irish genes wouldn't give up without a fight, and he DOES have a smattering of tiny, dark freckles across his face :)

Genetics are funny and random, and percentages often don't mean a thing.

[Raschel]

34. She definitely got the weak chin from Tawd. Sarah has the moosejaw thing goin' on.

[LiberalEsto]

7. Pity they didn't wire the jaw shut

and her mother's jaw too.

[CarlaLevin]

20. If Sarah's mouth was wired shut ...

... then how could she fit her foot into it so regularly?

[LiberalEsto]

38. Good point! nt

[alfredo]

40. She is well versed at talking out her ass.

[tammywammy]

8. I've had friends that have had corrective jaw surgery

There really is a reason to get it done. Maybe that's why she got it done, maybe not, but I really don't care.

[LisaL]

10. Why would "corrective" surgery change the shape of her whole face?

It's like actresses claiming they had nose jobs to correct a deviated septum.
Correcting deviating septum ain't going to change the shape of the nose.

[JBoy]

12. There's the "well, while we're at it..." argument. I saw it on an episode of Glee.

[tammywammy]

15. I had a good friend that had it done

It moved her jaw out and did change the shape.

I don't see why it would matter if she had it for cosmetic reasons or not anyway.

[Maine-ah]

19. it can be used for true medical or cosmetic reasons.

I had to google it :)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. Her "corrective" surgery was lipo --

she had all fat along her jawline and under her chin sucked out. Plain as day, nothing else. She is prepping for her new reality show - was probably tired of looking at herself with a round face.

[LisaL]

23. Her chin looks much longer and more angular to me.

Looks to me like a chin implant was slipped in.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

26. I wondered about that, too --

but I think that her chin is just looking longer because her face is now less wide with all the neck/jawline fat gone. Kind of an optical illusion. I've done make-up work on faces that have had jawline work and have seen that.

[CoffeeCat]

11. I hear ya...

...I've spent about 90 seconds on this, and I'm ashamed--so I'll only spend 20 seconds more
and then move on.

My question is--after your friends had this corrective jaw surgery, did they look completely
different, more beautiful and ten years younger?

I think Bristol looks great. I just don't like their fibbing. Her entire face looks different--even
the skin on her neck and under her jaw is firmed up--and her cheekbones are higher and more produnced.
Even her eyes look different.

[tammywammy]

17. Yes, a friend of mine did look a bit different

As far as the rest of her, it could be due to weight loss and skin treatments and really makeup can make big differences.

[CoffeeCat]

9. Drastic changes...

...and I really don't have the time or energy to analyze all of this, but frankly--this
was cosmetic surgery. Her face looks completely different. She didn't like her full face
and she did have a full face. But please...don't tell us that this was done for medical
reasons.

This entire family has grown so accustomed to lying.

[tishaLA]

13. she's so brave to come forward about

Her private medical travails! What a thoughtful young lady. Now, in addition to encouraging women to be incubators no matter what, she can also encourage us to fix our weak chins for purely medical reasons.

It's time for her canonization

[rocktivity]

14. Rocktivity says Bristol Palin had COSMETIC FACIAL SURGERY

It's took her TWENTY YEARS to figure out that she can't chew?

:rofl:
rocktivity

[joeybee12]

36. You are right!

I do think there are orthodontists in Alaska that could have taken care of this...what a tool she is.

[livetohike]

16. Bristol Palin can "corrective surgery" all she wants and it still

won't correct her polluted soul.

[undeterred]

22. If only they could wire her mother's mouth shut.

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

[David__77]

25. I've had two maxillofacial/jaw surgeries.

It made me look a lot better, but it was most certainly not a "cosmetic procedure," notwithstanding my personal motivations. Jaw surgeries of this sort are very rarely performed if they do not improve the bite. I certainly cannot understand why someone would be criticized for it in any case.

[EC]

27. Corrective? What did she break it on Dancing with the Stars

or something? How is reshaping a jaw, now considered corrective? I'll bet her insurance paid for it too, since it was "corrective". Right...

[LeftishBrit]

28. Maybe her mother should have corrective jaw surgery - i.e. wire it shut!

[Arugula Latte]

37. Now THAT is a great idea!

:applause:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. Yeah, and I'm the King of Siam.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Lyin' runs in the family.

[Cerridwen]

31. Link to some before and after pictures and their case studies.

If you insist on being a member of the "mean girls" club at least pick on someone for something that isn't done for medical purposes. Otherwise you run the risk of looking like nothing more than, a shallow mean girl; regardless of your sex.

http://www.sanjoseoms.com/case_studies/casestudies2.html

There are valid reasons for having corrective jaw surgery. Whether she had hers done for those reasons wouldn't really be an issue if people would focus on her words and actions rather than her looks.

I know, I know, how hairy, scary feminist of me to be so angry and humorless about judging people on their looks.

[montanto]

32. Who paid for that?

[mod mom]

35. Why would she want to look like Snooki?

[Raschel]

39. She wanted to be the Snook from the North.