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Lady Whose Face Is Falling Off Gets Reality Show In Which Cameras Will Follow Her As Her Face Falls Off

By Courtney Enlow | Posted Under Celebrities Are Better than You | Comments (34)



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So this is… random.

Lara Flynn Boyle, who used to look like this, then looked like this and now looks like this is getting her own reality show on the E! Network, which I would normally refer to as just “E!” but then that leads to an awkwardly overpunctuated sentence end.

The series will follow her as she searches for Laura Palmer’s killer, and “splits her time between her life in Texas and her marriage to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II and her Hollywood-centric lifestyle in Bel Air.”

My most favorite part of all “celebrity” reality shows is the constant need within them to make it appear as though this person is still quite famous and busy. Were that the case, they wouldn’t be doing the show.

Reality television has become a haven for former celebrities who ruined their careers by fucking with their faces or getting too thin. See: Spelling, Tori and Grey, Jennifer. The effects are never lasting, but it gives the subject a much-needed dose of the attention-crack they haven’t had for quite some time. And in the case of LFB, I always felt pretty sorry for her. Like so many others, this was someone who was fairly talented and became so obsessed with this need to stay young and pretty that she completely destroyed her appearance.

Look at that header again. That’s not weight gain. If you look at the full set, she’s still just as skinny as ever. The flesh is literally separating from her facial bones like brisket. She paid thousands of dollars to have that happen to her. And when the point comes in the life of a former ingenue where the work isn’t working anymore, they’re done. Which is kind of sad.

How long till Brendan Fraser’s reality show? Full disclosure: I would totally watch that.

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Comments

Wow. That is some frightening shit.

Posted by: FordbiddenDonut at October 5, 2010 2:29 PM

She used to be so pretty! Watch "Threesome." That movie used to turn my crank back in high school. Ignore the Stephen Baldwin, gawk at the young LFB, drool over the young Josh Charles...

Posted by: kate the great at October 5, 2010 2:32 PM

Oh, "Equinox", you were so long ago...

Posted by: Jay at October 5, 2010 2:34 PM

Oh Donna, what would Coop say?

Posted by: PaulterA at October 5, 2010 2:40 PM

Oh my god - what does that?! What is the process/set of procee that makes a face shlumph off the connective tissue to pool at the jawline? TONS of surgery addicts have this look. Isn't there some kind of tendon sewing through the muscle/internal rigging thing that can be done here? It's so unsettling!

This is the worst thing I've ever said about a person's looks - but she reminds me of that woman who had the face transplant. The face is just not...on!

Gah. Truth is that plastic surgery isn't very good yet. You look at a regular person and can always tell if they've done it. I look at today's Hollywood, and the golden era of fishhooks and face bandaging and wonder who has it worse.


Posted by: replica at October 5, 2010 2:42 PM

In further news, I'm going to get a reality show wherein I sparkle and show my tits. That's it, nothing more. All I have to do is exist. It'll make a mint and then I can buy sparkles for everyone and unicorns for the ladies.

Posted by: Sparkletits at October 5, 2010 2:44 PM

Ooh, ooh...will you buy tits for everyone too? Because my wife is stingy now that we're married.

Posted by: superasente at October 5, 2010 2:48 PM

Holy shit! Are you sure that 2nd pic is her? I can actually see somewhat of a resemblance between the 1st and 3rd, but the 2nd is crazy.

Posted by: Porkchop Express at October 5, 2010 2:48 PM

Yick. Didn't her character in Las Vegas get blown off a roof or something? THAT'S why I eat salt and vinegar chips. Because they taste great and I won't get smushed all over the asphalt.

Posted by: Julie at October 5, 2010 2:53 PM

Jesus. I get so depressed every time I see the transformation from Stacy to Saggy Facey. If this conversation were to happen again:

Stacy: Happy anniversary, Wayne.
Wayne: Stacy, we broke up two months ago.
Stacy: Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it?
Wayne: Well, it does actually, that's what breaking up is.

That last sentence would be something about her amorphous face, instead of how dumb & delusional Stacy was.

STOP BRINGING UP LARA FLYNN BOYLE, COURTNEY ENLOW! YOU'RE RUINING ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES EVER!

Respectfully yours,
Megan

Posted by: MeganTheFirst at October 5, 2010 2:55 PM

P.S. The most startling thing of all is this hot-air-balloon cabesa she's rocking wasn't there two years ago.

Posted by: MeganTheFirst at October 5, 2010 2:57 PM

Crap. I just had a conversation about celebrity look-alikes, and how Lara Flynn Boyle was mine. Which was a compliment in her "Threesome" days, but not since she got super skinny. But ew. This new look is even worse (and makes me glad no one's made the comparison in several years)

I'm with kate the great - "Threesome" is a fun, highly quotable movie, even though it contains a lesser Baldwin.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at October 5, 2010 3:11 PM

I guess we'll have to watch it to ever understand what made anybody think to make it.

I mean, apart from the bad surgery, the last time I ever saw her in the news was when she bleached her anus for Jack Nicholson, and that was ages ago.

I would watch a show about someone who bleached their anus for Jack Nicholson regardless of how long ago that was, but I know for a fact that I'm the only person who remembers that, because people always call me a liar when I mention it.

Posted by: Melodie at October 5, 2010 3:16 PM

Man she used to be so beautiful.

@Jay, Yeah Equinox was a good movie.

Posted by: John W at October 5, 2010 3:18 PM

She appeared on an episode of Law and Order a couple years ago, and I had to look away during her close-ups. Not trying to be mean, but her face is that bad.

Posted by: Turtle at October 5, 2010 3:20 PM

I love it! I love it! I love it!, this broad is going bat shit insane and I’ve got a front row seat, Jiminy fucking crickets! Get a load of the puss on her, she’s the ass end of a goddamn human centipede.

Posted by: Pookie at October 5, 2010 4:10 PM

There ought to be a way to regulate compulsive plastic surgery, like levy a 200% sin-type tax on any procedures that are not part of some sort of trauma-related reconstructive surgery (car accidents, skin burns etc.) Too many people are destroying their bodies with operations that are completely unnecessary.

Posted by: spoobnooble at October 5, 2010 4:14 PM

It all starts with the lip. Every celebrity with a thin upper lip seems to ignore the shitstorm of melty-horror that trying to create full lips induces. See Lindsay Lohan, Meg Ryan, etc. It's just not worth it.

Posted by: Lauren at October 5, 2010 4:15 PM

Christ on a pogo stick. She's been Kathleen Turnerized.

Posted by: stopthemadness aka Angry Black Lady at October 5, 2010 4:18 PM

As Mr. Julien and I always say, "Skinny ages badly." The only times I've ever seen someone who appeared to have had a lot of work done, all I could think was, "What have you done to your face?" and not in a ?! tone but in a :( tone. That's right! I used punctuation rather than make an effort to think up words, but then I waffled on the "

As my mother says, "You can only fight it for so long and then time takes over."

(Unrelated comment: This is the same 75 year old woman who recently developed warm form feelings for Christopher Plummer. This week, she told me that she had seen Dirty Harry on television and wondered how she had overlooked Clint Eastwood all these years. I'm tellin' ya, after two years of widowhood, my mum is getting randy.)

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 5, 2010 4:39 PM

Honestly, some days I should just write the word "blither" over and over again in the magical white Pajiba box a la The Shining. It's been a while since commented on or in my magical white Pajiba box. I should get on that. Or Mr. Julien should.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 5, 2010 4:40 PM

Fuck the What? Part of my original comment disappeared.

That's it! I'm cut off.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 5, 2010 4:42 PM

Sorry - what I see is a forty-year-old woman with a slightly puffy face. Only in Hollywood would this be considered remarkable.

This can be caused by coming off a diet - it's called 'weight gain', I believe - and, more significantly, by medications such as steroids, which are used for treating a wide variety of conditions. If you don't know for certain that it isn't the latter, you shouldn't be indulging in hysterical exaggeration. "The flesh is literally separating from her facial bones like brisket" - well, no it isn't. Funny but inaccurate, and cruel. New spectacles needed, perhaps?

The young LFB was a real beauty, but she wouldn't be the first female star to indulge in unwise minor plastic surgery - lips and possibly cheeks have been suggested - hit forty, give up on a ridiculously demanding personal diet/fitness regimen, and become almost unrecognisable overnight.

But then it's not a story, is it?

Posted by: Paul B at October 5, 2010 5:04 PM

Replica, shlumph is my new favorite word.

Posted by: superasente at October 5, 2010 5:15 PM

i'm getting the sense that people don't know what "scathing" and "bitchy" mean.

Posted by: stopthemadness aka Angry Black Lady at October 5, 2010 5:52 PM

OMG! She's been Zellwegered!

Yeah, I'm with Paul. She has a case of puffy face. I think she looks better now than she did when she was at the height of her anorexia. I'd have to see her, animated, though. A still photograph can be either viciously cruel or deceptively kind.

Audrey Horne is still hot though, right? Right?!

Posted by: What an A**hole! at October 5, 2010 6:29 PM

She looks horrific, pretty sad for someone who was almost-yet-not-quite an "IT" girl.

Now she resembles Mare Winningham's retarded cousin.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 5, 2010 6:32 PM

There's a lot of great plastic surgery being done that we don't know about because we can't tell. In that third pic LFB looks like she had something done recently and she's still swollen. When my Aunt had her eyes done it took FOREVER for the swelling to go down. Then, seeing her made me sad. Now, she looks fantastic. Wait 3 or 4 months and I bet LFB will look gorgeous again. Heidi Montag looked like a puffy victim too, now not so much. Whether that's because she went in for further work or because the swelling finally went down is open for debate but I think it was probably the latter.

Posted by: king at October 5, 2010 7:06 PM

she’s the ass end of a goddamn human centipede.

Posted by: Pookie at October 5, 2010 4:10 PM

Fuck me, that's exactly what I thought as soon as I saw the first linked picture: the good Dr. Heiter got his hands (and creepy instruments) all over LFB and she's going to be Segment 3 on the new Human Centipede. Cool!

Posted by: Uriah Creep at October 5, 2010 11:14 PM

i agree with Paul B., it looks like side-effects from steroids. which, stopthemadness, is also what happened to kathleen turner due to her debilitating rhumetoid arthritis.

Posted by: michkabibbles at October 6, 2010 12:15 AM

Prednisone is EVIL.

Posted by: Rykker at October 6, 2010 4:03 AM

Holy hell, that's Lara Flynn Boyle? I thought it was Kathy Bates, seriously.

Posted by: Sage at October 6, 2010 8:01 AM

What the holy fuckstick?

Thank GOD I was always broke during those moments of horrific insecurity whilst living in Los Angeles, when I WOULD have been tempted to undergo what these poor women (and some even more pathetic men -- yes, it's WAY more pathetic when the men do it -- see: Burt Reynolds) have done to themselves in the quest to reach that inchoate ideal we all KNOW must be attainable...

Right? Right? If we can't exercise our way there, at least we know our obstacles can be exorcised, on a doctor's table.

I still think she's gorgeous now... but one day... one day... this will happen to Angelina Jolie. You cannot have that many surgeries, no matter how tiny and perfectly performed, and not suffer the fate of all plastic surgery addicts in their older years.

God, that day will be so sad.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at October 6, 2010 12:33 PM

I hear the cenobites do better work for much less pay; that is, if you count your soul as less liquidly tangible than your bank $$$.

Posted by: Recondite at October 9, 2010 4:20 PM