Joan Van Ark: What Happened?
Good heavens. I’ve seen some horrid cosmetic surgery in my day. Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears, Joan Rivers, Priscilla Presley. But I do believe that this could just be one of the worst pieces of cosmetic surgery I’ve ever seen.
Joan Van Ark, star of 1980’s soapy drama Knot’s Landing, is sporting what appears to be either burn salve or an extremely bad reaction to a chemical peel at a charity event this past week. I mean, this seriously looks literally painful.
It does seem in the past few years that she’s undergone some procedures, but at least in this earlier shot she didn’t look quite so cadaverous. She looks kind of like Dina Lohan, dontchathink?
And in this old publicity shot from the 1980’s, it looks like she’s had a bit of tweaking done, but it was tastefully presented.
I hope that she just had an allergic reaction to a cosmetic or something (although that doesn’t explain the spiderlashes). Why do people feel this need to surgically alter themselves to this extent? Whatever happened to aging gracefully? Did she think this would be good for her career? Well, it did get her in the gossip pages this week…
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holy cow!! she looks like a blonde version of michael jackson. maybe a little scarier.
Comment by D-Bomb — December 10, 2007 @ 11:16 pm
That picture is by far one of the scariest things I’ve seen. How anybody could willingly allow themselves to be photographed looking like that is unimaginable. I’ve seen it all over the internet and it’s like looking at one of the faces of death or something. Just brutal. But that middle picture you posted interests me - I haven’t seen it before. There also seems to be something really wrong in that picture as well. I mean, look at the skin on her chest and lower neck. It’s all shiny and streaked-looking, like it’s been stretched too tight (like her face) and is coming apart at the seams. It doesn’t help that we can see all the bones in her chest cavity. She looks like a re-animated skeleton. All I can say is, going back to the first image, there is something seriously, drastically wrong with a person who thinks they look good or even presentable in this condition. And judging by the amount of makeup she’s wearing (although, inexplicably she has no lipstick on when she really needs it), this is what she looked like AFTER prettying herself up!
Joan, it appears that you’ve already gone to hell for cruelty to your own skin.
Comment by Mitsu — December 12, 2007 @ 11:15 pm