Since we have been talking about California doctors I thought I would share a news item that just came to my attention. Do you knows which desi male is in such high demand in Hollywood for his magic hands? He’s not a yoga instructor or a masseur, instead he’s Dr. Raj Kanodia, surgeon to the stars!
What do Jennifer Aniston, Ashlee Simpson and Cameron Diaz have in common? When Aniston recently underwent rhinoplasty, she turned to Dr. Raj Kanodia, the plastic surgeon behind Simpson’s and Diaz’s new noses. [Link]
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Aniston’s rep confirms the operation. “Jennifer had a procedure done to correct a deviated septum that was incorrectly done over 12 years ago,” [Link]
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p>While the official story is that she hated her original nose job and came to Kanodia for correction, nosy parkers insist that that a broken nose is just balm for a broken heart.
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p>Am I the only one who finds it ironic that all these famous actresses are coming to a desi doctor to get demure little noses? I imagine him doing these operations with an cartoon angel on one shoulder and a cartoon devil on the other. The angel tells him to just do what the client wants, and the devil tells him to go ahead and do what he really wants – to give these women beautiful, majestic desi schnozzes instead. The poor doctor’s hands twitch, caught by conflicting impulses, until he leaves the room crying and his associates finish the surgery instead.
More on Kanodia: Champa And Tulsi Go to Hollywood
Our earlier post on him: Of Course…A Desi Doc on Dr. 90210
to give these women beautiful, majestic desi schnozzes instead
is this a stereotype for all brown people? my parents make fun of my nose size and it isn’t that large within the american population.
hey, not all desis have long, sharp noses. Don’t forget us southies — we’re proud of our comparably flat and wide nose shape.
Do you think there aren’t at least a few desi — and, given that it’s Los Angeles, probably a whole lot of Persian — women coming to him for demure little noses as well??
Let’s face it, the whole concept of plastic surgery for purely aesthetic reasons is pretty screwed up and says something about ‘quick fixes’ for the epidemic of self esteem issues that’s fed by “The Modern MSM Culture”. Not that it (or a whole lot of other superficial habits) are going away anytime soon. I guess it makes people feel better….and if they have the money….. Whatever.
I’m a big supporter of plastic surgery. If it makes someone feel better about him/herself so be it and it’s a good thing. I do not condone being the infamous Catwoman but getting little nips and tucks to better your own view of yourself is just fine. I’m unsure why there is such a stigma attached to admitting something has been corrected. What’s the big deal I always wonder?
Not sure if this guy is half/part desi (sometimes he looks it and sometimes not), but he has been on tv a lot on several plastic surgery shows: Dr. Marc Mani
BLECH!
In this clip he sure looks to have some desi ancestry: Dr Mani on the Dr Phil Show
Source: TMZ.com
Jennifer Aniston is pissed off at Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Raj Kanodia.
Sources tells TMZ that a furious Aniston has placed several calls to Kanodia’s office to express her extreme displeasure that Kanodia spoke to US Weekly for an article entitled “Jen’s Secret Nose Job.” The magazine claimed that Aniston underwent rhinoplasty at Kanodia’s office on January 20.
In the article, Dr. Kanodia said he would not confirm that he performed the surgery and then went on to describe how rhinoplasty works.
Someone on Gawker suggested the other day that the reason the septum needed work was due to a certain habit….
Aniston is probably one of the most painful Hollywood people to endure even when she is not whining about something in the media.
A guy who reads US Weekly’s blog? What a catch!
Oi! It was a private tip from an embarrassed reader. Now I know why the tipster didn’t want me to use their name.
there is nothing wrong with reading us weekly, people, or mindless trash like pink is the new blog to perez hilton… (chuckle)..it’s my form of mental crack…much more entertaining than the new england journal..thats for damn sure…
Reminds me of something from Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games:
‘And what other languages do you speak?’
‘Gujurati, saab. Marathi, some Sindhi. You grow up in this Mumbai, you pick up a little of everything. I am trying to improve my English,’ He held up a copy of Filmfare. ‘I try to read one English magazine everyday.’
‘Very impressive, Ahmad Saab.’
Holy shit, I went to college with that guy! Damn! And yeah he is part desi. Looks like we went in different paths. He is doing this:
…while I am blogging for macacas.
i guess the big deal is that people always say “its-what’s-on-the-inside” that matters but the truth is that we are all superficial beings …. this is truer in hollywood than in other places … i guess no one wants it directly pointed out to them is all …
i mean ashlee simpson doesn’t even resemble her former self … but will she ever come out and say “you know what, i didn’t think i looked good with my old nose, so i went out and got a new one” .. that’ll be the day … i’m kind of torn as to where i stand on this issue … but i gotta admire someone like cher who has the balls to openly admit that she’s had work done and is like “so what?” to naysayers …
btw — didn’t rachel on friends say that she got a nose job b/c of a deviated septum as well ?
my nose isn’t flat or wide … its kind of a pug nose … but i never understood where the notion of a long, sharp nose, being the ideal, came into play … but i do remember as a child, my grandmother taking extra care to oil my nose every day before my bath .. and she would massage it to create “a better nose” for me … i still see mallus doing this especially when oiling up babies …
whenever i question my mom/grandma about it … they say i should count my blessings that i had an expert nose massager at my side and that she was able to work with the little she had … “if it wasn’t for your ammechi, you would’ve had no nose at all”
i’ll stop rambling now …
I like a guy with a huge schnozz who refuses to get a nose job, while being a top guy in the nose job field. Shilpa shetty should have gone to thi guy. I could use him too.
and we heart you for it…
I’m half southie (dad) and half american (mom). I got a ton of my dad’s features, but one of the few things I got from my mom was her nose. Wierd how these things work out.
btw, I used to watch raj kanodia on the style network all the time. did you know HE HAS HIS OWN TANDOORI OVEN??!?!
My brother in law (a doctor, natch) says he loves to read the gossip mags and the gym because it’s a nice break from all the medical texts!!
I concur with Rani. My nose, and those of most of my family, are flat and wide only to those who see the Himalayas as a huge valley.
What really bothers me about plastic surgery these days is its availability to teenagers. I cannot recall how many times (in early adolescence) I was tormented (by my brother mostly!) about my Punjabi nose. And if middle school wasn’t rough enough, I had to deal with defending my ethnic shnoz. The point is, if I were allowed to (and could afford to) make that decision in high school, I would have easily gone for plastic surgery.
By the time I was in high school, I was comfortable with it and the teasing was gone (although my brother still loves to instigate me!!). Now I can’t imagine not passing my NAK down to my kiddos. Afterall, that is why I am called meeNAKshi!! 🙂
Seeing young girls on that show wanting nose and boob jobs just disturbs me and makes me sad. I agree sometimes, some things need some fixing. But that decision should be made as an adult, not a teen.
hey now – I proudly list US Weekly’s Blog in the Personal section of my Bloglines feeds =) Along with PITNB, Go Fug Yourself, Popsugar, Fabsugar, Celebitchy .. (I could keep going ..) Don’t worry, I have my TechCrunch, Om Malik and Engadget types to balance it out.
Rani, my mother in law did this with my nephew because he had a really wide nose! Hmm, now that he’s a year old I should see if it made a difference. Oh the things these people do =) I wish someone had massaged mine into not being so long!
OMG same thing with me. My father swears my nose would have been as big as his and my brothers if it weren’t for his daily nose shaping excercises in my childhood from when I was a baby. My mother has a completely different nose, one that everyone on her side of the family has, it’s almost beak-like sharp but my nose has never been like either of my parents and unfortunately I learnt this gem once when I brought it up. Every now and then my father will reach over and pinch my nose to remind me how I could have otherwise looked like him! Hehehe
Awesome!!
I’m with you on this one. It’s one thing to correct something that is impeding being normal on a daily basis, cleft lip etc but augmentations and other superficial things on children freaks me out as well.
i tried to look up some anthropometric data…mighty hard. some of the older physical anthropological work has nasal form data though, i recall reading it.
C’mon Razib, we expect better than that. Show us the data!
Well, why didntcha send me the tip then?
the sharp schnoz fetish that all desis share might have a lil’ sumfin sumfin to do with european influence on notions of beauty. even though the vedic texts mention goddesses with flawless white skin, it seems that goddesses like Lakshmi only gained prominence in Vedic history after significant merchant exchange with Greeks (hence all those notions of classic Greecian beauty being adopted by our fairly flexible peoples) via the Silk Route.
Anyway, minus the academic-speak, beyond these funny ideas about purity and “natural” beauty that indians talk about a lot, I think plastic surgery is anyone’s right and i agree with JOAT. besides, what is natural beauty anyway?
quoth the mother of all goddesses, rhetorically
JOAT,
please…we need details, a step by step on how not to pass on my punjabi nose (plus a couple of hard hits from my cricket playing days) to my kids
LOL Rani did a much better job. It’s apparently literally massaging of the nose with the thumb and your index finger from the bridge of the nose down to the nostrils, repetitious motion over and over on a daily basis!!
Indeed, a good comeback when someone inquires “Is that your own hair color?” is “Why, yes it is, I paid for it so it’s mine!”
I don’t disagree that anyone should have the “right” to do it or not do it, it’s their business, and if they’ve had it done, by all means don’t be ashamed to talk about it, but….
If in order to feel: good about yourself OR adequate in comparison to others OR “attractive”, you need to have lip injections, an eyelid tuck, or 38DD chest implants…. then I think your primary issue is psychic, not physical.
Example: What’s the difference between skin lightening because of the perception dark = ugly and nosejob to have a petite little button because of the perception that long, hawklike schnoz = ugly? Self-hate is Self-hate. I know it’s more complex than this, but for me it’s a distinct line between “improving” your looks by using makeup or clothes, and going through surgery and having your body cut up. Just my opinion. I think it’s telling, though, that a lot of people see nothing “extreme” about plastic surgery. My reaction is “WTF!?”
It’s apparently literally massaging of the nose with the thumb and your index finger from the bridge of the nose down to the nostrils, repetitious motion over and over on a daily basis!!
Ok, my mom did this religiously with my nose, and I still ended up with a big schnozz!
Kusala:
What planet do you live on??? Do you understand that looks are very important in society whether you like to admit it or not? You can compare plastic surgery to skin lightening , but you cannot hide from the facts. You can claim midnight skin color is the most beautiful in the world all you want but people arent buying magazines/watching movies/using cosmetics that a dark dark indian is modeling. Lighter skin is skin as beautiful througout the world and no matter how much we say that dark is beautiful THATS NO WHAT SELLS. A perfect example is the American beauty magazines. The sales for beauty magazines would go down if a very dark woman were on the cover more often than lighter women. Women ADMIRE WHAT THEY DONT HAVE WHICH INCLUDES natural looking breast implants, fake hair extensions for volume, fake eyelashes for illusion of long lashes, etc that ENHANCE beauty.
Do you live under some rock because apparently you dont know that attractive people have MORE ADVANTAGES than unattractive or plain or ugly people. There was even a 20/20 TV show dedicated to how beautiful people get more things easier than ugly people regardless of how equally qualified both are. Numerous articles show that people have an UNCONSCIOUS PREFERENCE FOR ATTRACTIVE people when it comes to a lot of things including dating. There have been studies that show that theere is a UNIVERSAL definition of what is attractive based on FACIAL SYMMETRY. You should google these things. Why should i not have plastic surgery to look like an attractive person? Should I live the life of an ugly person. BElieve me, if you went under disguise as an ugly person, YOU WOULD REALISE THAT YOU ARE TREATED MUCH MUCH DIFFERENTLY.
I say MORE POWER TO WOMEN who get cosmetic surgery to improve themselves.I say MORE POWER TO women who want to LIGHTEN THEIR SKIn to improve themselves. It is so funny because people like you dont understand what its like to be disrespected, mocked, and ignored based on what you look like. Growing up, people around me always told me I had a huge nose (I have a wide nose not a beaky one) and they would laugh at me and say that my face isn’t cute. My parents were sympathetic and got me a nose job that completely changed the dynamics of my face. Now, people that never met me come up to me and tell me I look like a bollywood actress. That makes me feel great. HOWEVER, the same people who made me feel worthless because I didn’t have an acceptable nose, NOW CALL ME FAKE FOR HAVING PLASTIC SURGERY. THEY ARE DISGUSTED and ask , “Why would you want to change your nose” but a year ago they were talking shit about my nose. IM GLAD I DID IT AND I HAVE NOOOOOOOOOO REGRETS. I HOPE TO GET A BOOB JOB because the new and advanced silicone implants feel and look beautiful even though I already have natural D cups.
Anyways, perhaps YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND because you werent mistreated to the extent I was growing up. I never provoked any of the comments from people just like dark indians never provoke any of the comments like, “YOu dont have any color”.
I DIDN”T put myself in this self esteem position all by myself. SOCIETY PUT ME THERE AND I RESPONDED. If you think self esteen issues come simply from within, you need to open your eyes and realize PEOPLE AROUND US ARE TO BLAME FOR THE INSECURITIES WOMEN FEEL from the playboy magazines to the MISS UNIVERSE beauty pagneants.
He’s no Dr. Vishal Kapoor! Now he has skills! – link NSFW.
Kusula I think that’s a big harsh. You metion extremes. Think of someone who has smaller breasts than her entire frame or someone with too large breasts for her frame, perhaps someone’s nose really is huge and that one thing would make all the difference in the world. I don’t think getting a procedure immediately screams self esteem problems unless it’s someone who does it on an excessive basis and there was nothing wrong with them in the first place. I know people who lead a much more happier life from little changes to their bodies/faces whatever and never went back for more. A vast majority of breast implants are on women going from A to C cups, not excessive IMO. A very small percentage of women are going to D cups and there will always be extremes in any case.
Ha! I wish! I do that unconsciously when I’m reading or spaced out. It’s been a lifelong habit, but this schnozz sure hasn’t gotten any smaller.
But that’s ok. I like feeling like I have the nose of an ultimate fighting champion.
I agree with whoever said that teens getting plastic surgery is a scary thing. People grow into their faces, faces widen and square with age, and there’s something tragic (imo) about older people with wide jowls and teensy tiny little ski slope noses.
I hope to grow into a face like Diane Vreeland’s, even if I can never be even fractionally as fabulously bitchy.
Long sharp noses make women look like transvestites. A cute nose on a woman is invariably a small nose. In Europe jews and witches were caricatured with big noses.
For a half-desi he sure looks like a 100% desi who himself could use a nose job:
http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/v2/news/0906/beauty/nosejob/images/0.jpg
You have a perfect nose, I wouldn’t even mess with it with fingers.
There is no goddess named Lakshmi in the Vedas. That sculpture of Lakshmi in your link has a very broad nose.
As plastic surgery becomes more and more extreme, where do we draw the line for what’s “okay” and what’s “too much”? Should we all have plastic surgery to make ourselves look like Aishwarya Rai, if the goal is to look better for social acceptance and she’s apparently the ideal of beauty? A plastic surgeon I worked with told me the only patients that were universally satisfied with their surgery were women that had breast reductions, because of the functional improvement in their daily lives. Other patients continued to be unsatisfied and came back for more and more procedures. I acknowledge that there may be people who get one procedure, and are done, and feel better about themselves. But my sense is that that’s rare.
I have tiny breasts. People commented on them constantly while I was growing up. I find it hard to buy clothes that fit appropriately–I barely fill the bust of a size zero dress, but I’m 5’8″ so the rest of the dress doesn’t fit. I’ve learned to live with it. I would NEVER get a boob job. I’m not above altering my body–I would get laser hair removal, had braces when I was younger which,face it, is basically a cosmetic procedure, but I draw my line definitively before getting into the realm of major surgical procedures requiring general anesthesia and all the risks that go with it. It’s major surgery, people–it’s no joke. Do whatever you want with your body, but don’t act like surgery is no big deal.
Are we going to get to a point where people that DON’T want plastic surgery to correct their minor imperfections are seen as counter-culture, like women who don’t shave their armpits?
Are we going to get to a point where people that DON’T want plastic surgery to correct their minor imperfections are seen as counter-culture, like women who don’t shave their armpits?
not as long a large proportion of americans can’t afford braces and continue to don mullets.
Mine is a living samosa :∆)
ok, a quick question. any bengalis out there know what the bengali term for “sharp features” is??? i never understood that there was a strong south asian preference for this physical type before reading this weblog (my family talks enough about fair skin enough, but never “sharp features,” at least that i know of, unless i’m misunderstanding a phrase).
chokhaa/tikolo naak (sharp nose), dharalo chehara (sharp features). You are right in general. Among Bengalis, historically there isn’t a very strong preference for this type, but I think that’s mainly because this type is rarer among them (compared to northies). The exceptions are idolized.
hahaha! ok, i know chokhaa!!! 🙂 perhaps my family is weird…there is a tendency toward making fun of the non-pugged nosed.
p.s. i know whereof i speak, my brother has a small puggish nose and i do not.
My family seems to value sharp features. In fact recently we unearthed a really old photo, from the early 50’s, with my mom (as a kid) and her siblings, along with several of their 1st and 2nd cousins, and some uncles. A few years after that photo, there was a major falling out between my nana’s (mom’s father’s) family and some of their realtives over inheritance issues. After that they were never really on good terms. Well, the first thing my mom’s sister (who was born AFTER that photo was taken yet still has a grudge against the cousins) said when she saw the photo recently is ‘look how nice our noses are compared to THEM’. So I think this attitude is well-entrenched in certain quarters.