On June 14, a Saturday, his father’s 80th birthday, Barron Trump sat slightly behind his parents at the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn with his hair falling forward onto his forehead, his navy blazer open at the collar, and no tie. He appeared to be a college student who had been abruptly removed from campus. The actual fighters in the ring were entirely overshadowed by that image, which became the night’s big story for millions of viewers on the internet. Barron Trump frequently makes headlines when he appears in public. He hardly ever does. Since…
Author: Michael Martinez
Seeing a child star grow up completely in the spotlight has a subtle allure. In 2001, Hilary Duff made her screen debut as the eccentric and endearing Lizzie McGuire, a young child with an open smile and a slightly gapped front tooth that somehow made her seem more real than the polished Disney machine surrounding her. She is now announcing a music comeback tour more than 20 years later, and predictably, the internet has shifted its focus from the songs to her face. It’s difficult to ignore it. Recent photos depict a woman who appears genuinely rested and sharp-featured in…
When a celebrity shows up on screen, the math just stops adding up, and you notice it without really realizing it. Last year, the comment sections went slightly crazy when Madeleine Stowe appeared on the set of Welcome to Derry as Mrs. Kersh, 67 years of age. That face. Not that people were furious. They were perplexed in the same way that you become perplexed when something deviates from the norm. The discussion about Stowe’s plastic surgery has been going around for years, and as she ages, it becomes more intense. It’s easy to see why. Hollywood has conditioned viewers…
A woman who has been on television for more than 50 years entering a West Hollywood restaurant in a white suit, a butterfly brooch, and heeled camel boots—looking, by most accounts, like she hasn’t aged past 1983—has a subtle allure. On a Saturday night in late June, Donna Mills did just that. She went out at Craig’s and attracted the kind of second looks that are typically reserved for women half her age. Mills is eighty-four. She’s also finished discussing her appearance. In a recent We’re Knot Done episode, however, Mills finally outlined her accomplishments and, more intriguingly, her shortcomings…
The internet is still unsure of how to interpret Louise Redknapp’s face, despite the fact that she turned 48 last year. The same arguments can be found repeatedly in any tabloid comment section. Some claim she’s “just aged well,” while others are certain there’s more going on beneath the surface than she’s disclosing. Any woman who has been in the spotlight long enough will recognize this pattern, and Redknapp has been visible in one capacity or another since the early 1990s. She was open about her stance on surgery when she met with Stylist in 2014 to discuss a jewelry…
The internet can’t seem to leave Sheridan Smith’s face alone for some reason. Every few months, a new picture appears with a slightly different silhouette or a different hair color, and the comment sections are filled with the same question that has been going around for years: has she had work done? Here, it’s important to separate a few threads because they’ve been intertwined in ways that don’t always benefit Smith. She had reconstructive surgery in her early 20s after having a jaw ailment from birth. That is corrective medical intervention, not cosmetic work in the traditional sense. However, it…
The short answer is no. Jill Biden is not a physician. She is unable to perform surgery, write prescriptions, or diagnose illnesses. She completed a dissertation on student retention at the community college level before earning her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Delaware in 2007. Even though it’s a crucial distinction, it gets lost every time someone on TV neglects to bring it up. The confusion peaked in early 2020 when Whoopi Goldberg called Jill Biden “an amazing doctor” on The View and implied that she would make a fantastic Surgeon General. After that, Goldberg had to…
Watching Natalie Alyn Lind in Dutton Ranch has an almost disorienting quality. For someone who is only in her mid-twenties, her portrayal of Oreana Jackson has an air of cold calculation that seems overly practiced. It begs the question of how much of her current facial features are inherited and how much of her poise was developed in front of the cameras she has been in front of since she was six years old. As expected, the internet has drawn its own conclusions. A lot of time has been spent analyzing before-and-after pictures in Reddit threads and TikTok comment sections,…