"Glee" teen gets Botox to look younger

Really.

July 19, 2010 at 6:03PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

You can understand why someone would be nervous about appearing on TV. It's a medium that values youth and superficial beauty, so you'd want the best a stylist or make-up artist could offer. It's what you owe the viewing public, after all. They expect the best! Don't you go showing up on TV with your hagged-out 18-year old face! INJECT CHEMICALS INTO YOUR SKIN!

Because the viewing public demands narrow faces. Today, anyway. Tomorrow we may want rounder faces, so everyone get ready to inject synthetic substances into your cheeks.

Artist's conception of the Before-and-After:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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