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Breast Implant Video: Anna Nicole Smith’s Surgery

August 20, 2007 |

I must not have been paying attention. The blogosphere and news media were recently abuzz with reports of a (stolen?) video of Anna Nicole Smith’s breast implant surgery. I never imagined things could take such a turn, when I wrote my post on Anna Nicole’s mythic proportions. But then, one trait of the post-ironic life is that anything we try to imagine as parody is outdone by actual history-cum-farce before we know it.

Of course, this also begs the question of which implant surgery the video is from– an upgrade, a downgrade, or a retread. Apparently, Ms. Smith had at least five implant surgeries at one time or another, to try out different sizes:

The 37-year-old reveals, “I went up to 211 (pounds) so I stretched to double-Fs, and when I lost all the weight I went way back down, except my skin didn’t. It was not pretty.”

The busty blonde admits she opted for a C-cup implant but didn’t like the way her nipples pointed downwards, so she supersized to a D, then a double-D and then an F before settling for her current choice, the size of which she refuses to disclose.

I think that much the same effect could have been achieved with a little judicious breast-enlargemetnt photoshop work, given that hardly anyone actually saw Anna Nicole in person.

 

The “real” of Anna Nicole was pretty much the magazine images, the tabloid coverage, the news stories… all of them so mediated by… well, media that the actual Anna Nicole was virtually invisible. So who needs the knife? 


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