So, since my last post on Heidi’s new face, I’ve grown up a little. I have to admit that my initial reactionary stance was one of cruelty and loathing.  It’s so easy to take the judgmental way out and look at something that someone’s doing as somehow attacking your own values. Instead, I ask the question, what do our reactions to Heidi’s new face say about us? Please click on the picture or text below to read the full article.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

Heidi Montag completely changes her face through plastic surgery, and says that it makes her feel more confident, better about herself and more beautiful. She says that beauty and confidence is within and yet, she’s very grateful for being able to have had the surgery. She’s 23 years old – admittedly a bit young for such drastic measures – but old enough to make up her own mind. Out come the surgical knives, and in come the catty media to feed on her sawed off flesh. You would think she was on trial for kidnapping her natural face, and holding it for ransom. Why are we so against this adult woman changing the way she looks? What is it about morphing a face that angers us so?