No, Demi Moore wasn’t kneeling in prayer while she had a little work done, she actually had her knees operated on for cosmetic purposes. I remember reading a while ago that she was interested in getting her knees done and I thought that was bullshit because who would be so obsessed with their looks that they have their knees restructured? Here’s your answer:

The Daily Mail shows before and after photographs of Demi’s knees, and said she had some skin taken in by the guy who did all her other work. It’s possible that her knees look better because she’s wearing tight pantyhose and that the Mail is fabricating this story based on the comparison pictures and that old rumor that she wanted her knees done:

Moore has supposedly had over $400,000 worth of work done, and this knee surgery is said to have added $9,000 to that.

I can see a faint scar over one of her knees in high resolution pictures taken on 9/14, so it’s possible that this is old news. Still, it seems excessive to get one’s knees done. I can see a facelift or some lipo, but knee plastic surgery?

Here are Ashton and Demi at the Hollywood Awards on 10/23. The first five pictures are higher res. [via]

Tara Reid has admitted that she hired a cheap hack who made her look like a Frankenbarbie, ruining her movie career, sending her into a drunken depression, and forcing her to steal swag in order to survive. She said she sold her story to US Weekly in order to pay to get some stuff fixed, and hopes that her next direct-to-DVD horror film helps her afford the mortgage on her condo:

That’s great of poor Tara to come clean and all, and maybe she can make friends with pregnant Tori Spelling now that they’re both selling their sad tales to US to run as cover stories during slow news weeks.

We haven’t seen any pictures of Tara lately apart from the pitiful scene where she got shut out of Hyde and waited patiently, making self-depricating comments. Either she’s so “last week” that she doesn’t warrant the space on the paparrazi’s digital memory cards, or she’s staying out of trouble by not hitting the celebrity hot spots while she’s recovering from surgery.

She looks really cleaned up the cover of US Weekly, and maybe she’ll settle into a comfortable sober lifestyle of relative obscurity, but I doubt it.

SkyShowbiz had this gallery of celebrity before and after pictures and it struck me how much some of their faces had changed. No one can blame celebrities for getting plastic surgery and I’m not bashing them for making that choice. Plastic surgery is a cultural phenomenon influenced by a perfectionist society obsessed with beauty. (Yes that’s not big news and this reads like a high school essay.) It’s also something that you might consider if all your friends and colleagues were doing it. My mom had a face lift mainly because her best friend had one. A friend of mine who lives in California had a nose job, and I didn’t think she needed one, but all her friends had work done and it seemed perfectly normal to her.

I’m not a person who is going to age gracefully and I plan on getting a facelift in 20 to 30 years. Maybe there will be less cutting involved at that point.

You can access the galleries through the images below. In some cases the celebrities have admitted to having work done. I just eyeballed the pictures and made judgment calls. If you have more information or a different opinion about a particular celebrity please comment with it. I don’t think I’m right in every case and am open to other opinions.

It’s telling how most of the “natural” celebrities in the gallery are men.

Nose Jobs and more: page one

Nose Jobs and more: page two

Very subtle or unchanged: page one

Very subtle or unchanged: page two

Remember that really obvious trout pout Jessica Simpson was sporting late last year? She told Glamour magazine that she has Restalyn injections to enhance her lips, and that she regretted it afterwards:

Jessica’s father may insist her breasts are real, but Awful Plastic Surgery has recent pictures that make ‘em look like fake round balls. Maybe she was well endowed as a teen, but had a little help. The women in her family do love to get new body parts.

The cover of Us Weekly details Jessica’s romance with singer John Mayer, with Jessica supposedly declaring “I’m in love!” How convenient that it coincides with the release of her crappy new album.

Simpson partied with the Jackass crew after the release party for her new album. In the pictures taken of the after party her eyes are all red like she’d either been crying or smoking a lot of weed. [via]

Lindsay Lohan should either keep her mouth shut or try to make sure that people stop making up fake quotes and attributing them to her, because she supposedly slammed Ashlee Simpson for getting plastic surgery. She said that the tabloids didn’t pay enough attention to Ashlee’s new nose, but that’s bullshit because it was all over the place and Ashlee was even forced to admit that she had rhinoplasty.

Lohan also repeated that lie that her boobs are real, saying she’s never done anything. Yeah, she didn’t do it, a plastic surgeon did. She’s pretty good at arguing the finer points of the truth. Maybe she should go to law school. Oh wait - she’d have to go to college first. (Yeah, I’m blasting the celebrities for lack of education today. It kind of amazes me how popular Lohan and Paris are when they didn’t even try to go to college.)

Here are both Ashlee and Lohan outside of club Hyde in Hollywood. They missed each other by a couple of nights and several fistfulls of martinis. Lohan was there on August 17th and Ashlee was there on August 20th. If you saw these pictures of Lohan last week I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t resist her drunken mug. Pictures [via] [via] and [via] Thanks to smart for the tip.