Sep 13, 2010
Jennifer Grey, Where’d You Go?
Sometimes Bossy likes to think about how much Jennifer Grey’s face confuses Bossy when she is bored — not when Jennifer Grey is bored, but when Bossy is bored, where bored equals avoiding things.
As some of you may remember, where some of you refers to those few people left who are older than Bossy, Jennifer Grey made her acting debut in 1986 when she played that girl with irrepressible hair in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Also she was his little sister:
The next year Jennifer Grey made a splash in Dirty Dancing, where she played that girl with irrepressible hair. Also there was dancing.
And then Bossy lost track of Jennifer Grey until a woman with her name showed up on a television series with the biblical title It’s Like You Know. And on this show Jennifer Grey played a girl with decidedly repressible hair.
Much was made around this time of Jennifer Grey’s nose job, which she admitted carved much of her ethnicity away and made it more difficult for her to get acting gigs. Bossy isn’t even sure why Jennifer Grey got a nose job — Bossy loved jennifer Grey’s nose. And it’s not like nose jobs run in Jennifer Grey’s family.
But it wasn’t just her nose that made Jennifer Grey look so different. In fact, the general shape of her nose remained the same:
So then Bossy began thinking maybe it’s Jennifer Grey’s eyes that look so different.
Anyway, Bossy told you she was avoiding things bored. The end.
I’m with Bossy. More than the nose had to have been tweeked cause Ms. Jennifer’s whole face looked different.
and yes, Bless Patrick’s heart. Miss him.
i think the problem is she got an unnecessary face lift and her hair cut at the hair cuttery or someplace equally hideous…
I often like to ponder what these celebrities (and random scary-faced rich ladies in my town) would look like if they aged naturally and gracefully, with serums and tonics and cremes and stuff. They might not look as smooth but by God I’ll wager they’d look ten times more beautiful.
Came face to face with a beautiful but “altered” face this weekend. Could not stop wondering what all she had done, even my girls noticed. There was something very unnatural about her, beautiful….but unnatural.
BTW…. I love, loved, the original Jennifer Grey best.
She does at least look human. Too many do not. I am somewhat on the old as dirt side and have no skin care regimen. If I ever lose serious weight there will be masses of creases instead of what is there now. Life, meh.
Whenever I buy more tinted moisturizer at the Lancome counter, and it is almost always when there is a gift thing going on, they have these face serums and stuff as part of the gift. The last time I asked the young man (who said he uses it all) to give me the least scary one.
I dunno, magic chemicals for the skin just sounds too much like mystery theater to me. But I had chemical burn from Oxy10 or whatever the hell that zit stuff was back in the 80’s.
True confession: finally watched the whole Dirty Danciing movie when he die. Road House too.
She will be a contestant on Dancing with the Starts this season, new nose and all.
Also check out Maura Tierney’s new face. I know she had cancer and chemo, and her hair fell out and is now short, but I think she did something to her face too. Not sure what.
Good catch on the eyes, but there’s something up with that upper lip too. Something like fat injections.
Nobody puts baby’s schnoz in a corner.
I think she has had a lot of work done. She looks like a completely different person.
bossy, i too am fascinated (esp when avoiding things) by these facial modifications and constantly looking at the “older” (like 40s) celebs to see what exactly IS different. they do so much now beyond nose and botox, like chin and cheek implants or reduction and idontknowwhatelse! i’m amazed how just a few things can make someone not look like themselves anymore.
Tee hee the hubby and I were just talking about JG and her face because we were watching an old Muppet Show episode from 1976 (No, we don’t have children-don’t judge us) and good ole’ Joel was the guest.
Thanks for the analysis…I will forward to him!
I still think she’s quite attractive. I just think people need to stop getting nose jobs (ASHLEY TISDALE AND ASHLEY SIMPSON I’M LOOKING AT YOU). Your nose is a certain way for a reason. Of course, I’m not fan of plastic surgery (or my nose, for that matter) but hey. What do I know?
I loved Dirty Dancing being a similar age as she when the movie came out. I thot her beautiful and certainly hot enough to get the hunk to want her…her overdone surgery makes me scared of her and so sorry to think she decided to do it.
She looks botoxed all to heck.
That left side Joel nose sure looks a lot like Michael Jackson’s. At least one version of MJ’s.
Yep – it’s the nose, and the eyes, and something odd about the lips too. I will never understand why women feel the need to butcher themselves – and Jennifer Grey was GORGEOUS before. Why, Baby, WHY?
I correct myself – not just the girls, of course. The men do it too. I guess that’s where Jen learned it? Why, Dad, WHY?
I can answer the why. It’s Los Angeles. It makes one crazy. Seriously. I’m the least likely person on earth to have work done and even I give in to wondering what it would be like to get rid of a little of the pucker around the pucker.
I love her lips and IMHO her lips still look nice… but giving in… yea it’s true – peer pressure and sags and wrinkles in a youth obsessed culture. Can you blame her?
This is why I’m such a big fan of Jamie Lee Curtis who appears in magazines without makeup to show women that a lot of glamour of actresses is smoke, mirrors, and Makeup (if not face jobs.) she even appears with her own grey colored hair. Speaking of Grey.
Please don’t tell me she’s had a bunch of work done!!!
I didn’t know that Jennifer was the daughter of the very Michael-Jackson-Nosed Joell Grey. So see, your post was educational.
i’ve been secretly studying her for years and i can’t figure it out. it’s all different. yet it’s all the same!
She is beautiful either way. Different, but both are beautiful.
Her transformation creeped me out! I never could figure out what happened to her! Can’t we just like ourselves???
She’s definitely had something done. That Joel’s nose is just CREEPY!
She’s conventionally pretty now, somewhat generic and forgettable, where before she was pretty in a way that was more interesting, memorable and recognizably her. Like snowwhite, I prefer the original JG. As a young girl I also related to her, having an ethnic nose myself, and saw via her that one could have such a nose and be beautiful. Ice skater Peggy Fleming, another beauty, had an “ethnic nose” also. When she, and later Grey, had nose jobs it made me think, in passing, that maybe one can’t be pretty with such a nose, since these famous people saw the need to have their nose “fixed.” I got over it, but still, that’s one repercussion plastic surgery can have — the message it can send to girls and even women who resemble the “before” pictures that something is wrong with them.
okay…….so I KNOW you have much more of a life than that!!! I don’t…..but I know you do b/c I read your blog
Thanks for the pics, Bossy. I too, loved the old JG, and have been wondering myself what all happened to her face, but was too lazy to gather all the comparison pictures. You have performed another public service for your curious public.
And thanks for blessing Patrick. Miss him; wanted to marry him after Dirty Dancing…that was the sweetest movie…with dancing!
She resembles Prince Charles more than Jennifer Grey.
Put THAT Baby in the corner…
I think women overall are so hyper critical of each other and ourselves, that it is just sad. It is no wonder why we have “procedures” done, or spend lots of money on fancy creams and make up. We all (using the term we all loosely here) Grow up in front of mirrors and judgement all of our lives with many different expectations of what we believe beauty to be. We try to find exactly what is perfection in society’s eyes at any given time, and then we diet, work out, make up, have surgery trying to achieve that goal thinking that beauty equals happiness and acceptableness.
I am guilty of this myself in a big way. Many day’s my mood is changed and directed by the number I see on the scale. Am I worthy to be happy today? Or disappointed that today I am not “good enough”
So as we critique Jennifer or each other, let’s all try to be a little kinder to each other because some teenage girl somewhere is going to have it re-enforced that she too has to look a certain way to make society/herself happy.
This post is not to point fingers at anyone, I LOVE Bossy to death! But probably just mainly for myself as a lesson that I need to work on.
As someone whose own nose could use a little carving, I say this about Jennifer Gray: Let her be a lesson to us all. Her nose was part of what made her so adorable and beautiful. She took that away and became generic-aisle pretty. She carved away the essence of herself, what made her unique. As tempting as it is to try to perfect ourselves, what do we lose in the process?
She and Heidi whatsherfacewith9millionsurgeries look better after massive transformation.
The French, they have this great concept of jolie-laide, ugly-beautiful. They get that the one non-generic feature is what makes a face gorgeous, as opposed to merely pretty.
I made my mom promise that if I ever have to get my nose reconstructed, she will get me a beatiful new one. I don’t love mine but I’m a big chicken.
Did you read that she had thyroid cancer? scary!
I just can’t wait for Jennifer Grey’s performance next Monday! She’s just a treat to watch, and my, does she look good at 50 or what?!
I also wondered what happened to her character features. She looks like a completely different person. She used to have a signature look, and now it is like “Oh, you are who? Nice to meet you”.
Too bad, I have a hard time relating to her and rooting for her to win, since she looks nothing like the character I grew up watching in movies.