Comedian Kristen Wiig of “Saturday Night Live” and the movie “Bridesmaids” got a nose job to fine-tune her face.
Photo: Kristen Wiig in 2007 before her nose job, on left, and this year, on right, with a turned-up nose. (Getty Images photos)
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Kristen Wiig, left, and Maya Rudolph in "Bridemaids" / Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures (Click photo for slide show.)
Comedian Kristen Wiig, 37, makes many people laugh, but she turned to the serious business of changing her face a few years ago.
In 2007, she was already a regular on “Saturday Night Live” and had landed some movie roles. But she hadn’t achieved her current level of success, including her recent role in the movie “Bridesmaid,” which she co-wrote.
Wiig apparently decided in 2007 that she needed some surgical fine-tuning if she was going to make it bigger in show business.
Her fans weren’t pleased.
The Shine website noted the change in Kristen Wiig’s nose in 2008, commenting that it was “really different, to the point that it’s distracting. She went from a normal-looking woman with a normal-looking nose to a normal-looking woman with a nose that looks like it was sculpted from Play-Doh.”
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That website’s editor, Jennifer Romolini, said the nose job was “incredibly upsetting. It’s one thing for superficial mush brains like Paris Hilton to ‘enhance’ themselves. For the most part, that’s all women like her really have. But when a smart, accomplished actress/comedian like Wiig feels the need to alter her appearance, it signifies that something in our society has broken even further.”
“Female comedians are sort of the final frontier in not having to be shellacked and tanned and veneered and stick-skinny and styled. They often look like real people. It’s refreshing,” she said.
She wasn’t thinking of comedian and plastic surgery booster Joan Rivers, of course, nor of multiple surgical revisionist Kathy Griffin. Perhaps someone like Botox opponent Tina Fey.
But Wiig’s decision probably shouldn’t have been a surprise.
Before turning to acting, Wiig worked as a graphic artist at a plastic surgeon’s office.
This post expands on coverage of Kristen Wiig’s nose job in the recent blog post “Emmy nominees went under the knife” and its accompanying slide show.
Photo: Joan Rivers at 76 (Getty Images photo)
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Photo: Kathy Griffin in 2008, age 47.
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