jennifer gray is opening up about her past history with plastic surgery.
In an interview with People posted Monday, the “Dirty Dancing” icon reflected on the rhinoplasty she had when she was younger, which significantly changed the appearance of her face. In her upcoming memoir “Out of the Corner” (out May 3), Grey, 62, recalled a time when actor michael douglas he did not recognize her at a movie premiere she attended after her second nose job.
“That was the first time I went out in public. And it became the thing, the idea of being completely invisible, from one day to the next,” Gray told the outlet. “In the eyes of the world, it wasn’t me anymore, and the weird thing was what I resisted all my life, and what I was so upset with my mom for always telling me I should get my nose done. I really thought I was giving up.” .
Gray continued, “I just thought, ‘I’m good enough. I shouldn’t have to do this.'” That’s really what I felt. ‘I am beautiful enough’. “
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But Grey, the daughter of actors Joel Gray and Jo Wilder, said she understands her mother’s insistence on plastic surgery stemmed from her own experience of having to conform to Hollywood’s cosmetic expectations.
“I understand that it was the ’50s. I understand that they were assimilating. I understood that you had to change your name and you had to do certain things, and it just became normal,” Gray said. “You can’t be gay. You can’t be Jewish. You know, you can’t look Jewish. You’re just trying to fit in with whatever the group thinks.”
She added, “She loves me, she loved me, she always has, and she was pragmatic because she was like, ‘Guess what? It’s too hard to pick you. Make it easier for them.'” And then I did and she was right.”
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Gray shared that even famous artist Andy Warhol commented on the appearance of his nose in a book he published, which he called “humiliating.”
“They only told me one thing about me. And it was like, ‘And, you know, I’d look at Jennifer. I’d wonder, you know, why was she… Um, her dad got his nose job. would you make sure she had one, too, or something,” Gray recalled. “It’s like everywhere I went, I was like, ‘Wait. Excuse me. I’m a person with other features and other amazing features. Why is everyone so obsessed with the nose?’ “
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Ultimately, the Golden Globe-nominated actress told People that she came to a place where she learned to embrace her personal authenticity.
“I just want to feel who I am now,” Gray said. “But I think when you ask other people who you are and ask people to love you and take their opinion as a definition of your worth, it’s a slippery slope, man.”
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Gray also opened up about her former “Dirty Dancing” co-star, the late patrick swayzeand the “tension” between them when the cameras weren’t rolling.
“The same way that Baby and Johnny weren’t supposed to be together… a natural couple, right? And we weren’t a natural couple,” Gray said. “And the fact that we needed to be a natural couple created a tension. Because normally when someone is unnatural, you… you both move on, but we were forced to be together. And the fact that we were forced to be together It created kind of a synergy, or like a friction.”
Swayze died of pancreatic cancer in 2009.
He adds that if he had the opportunity to say something to him now, he would apologize. “… I would say, ‘I’m so sorry I couldn’t appreciate and revel in who you were, instead of wishing you were more like I wanted you to be.'” ”
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