It's really hard to be a celebrity these days. No, wait, hear us out. We're not saying that's it's particularly hard to make buckets of money for smiling at a camera, or attaching your name to a shoe line, or warbling a treacly ballad even though you have approximately as much actual singing talent as an above-average high school choir member. That sh*t is easy.
No, we're talking about the nonstop media obsession with the ways celebrities look. For the rest of us, if our nose is a little big or we don't have the straightest teeth or we have an unsightly birthmark in an unfortunate place, most strangers will probably never really notice or care. But in this strange media culture, where celebrities are both lionized and vilified from all angles, any minor abnormality or imperfection in the famous becomes a chance for shallow, petty members of the proletariat to make themselves feel momentarily better about their lots in life by mocking the rich and successful.
Shall we?
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