Dita Von Teese, the burlesque performer and wife of Marilyn Manson, redeemed herself partially in our eyes by admitting that her boobs are fake.

I was annoyed with Dita a little over a month ago when she was quoted putting down other strippers and acting like hers was the only act in town. Doc pointed out that I have no clue about burlesque, and he was partially right. There’s a difference between stripping and teasing, and in Dita’s case it’s to the tune of millions of dollars that can’t just be stuffed in her panties.

Now she’s admitted to surgery and that’s a step in the non-bullshit direction. She still has much farther to go.

She says her job is “liberating” since she charges tens of thousands of dollars for an appearance, and that she’s a sex symbol to both men and women. She also poo-poos the charges that she’s setting back feminism:

There’s all sorts of things wrong with that comment, and it could be considered downright nasty, if not ignorant and rude. There’s nothing wrong with being sexy, but that doesn’t mean that should be the only way you’re evaluated in life. If that’s the case then you’re screwed no matter how sexy you are. It’s not fun to be considered a piece of meat or an ornament. She might not have actually said this, though. It’s attributed to The Times, but the quote sounds fake and is reprinted in a source that’s not reliable.

In case you’re a big Dita fan and think I’m being harsh, consider how many pictures I’m posting of her from various photoshoots. In the ladybug one she looks like a tranny. [via]

On Monday we reported that it looked like Jessica Alba had a nose job based on HQs of her at two different events last week. She was at the premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth” last night, and her nose still looks different than it did at the ALMA awards, but not dramatically so.

We checked out earlier pictures of Alba, and it seems like the lighting at the ALMA awards was particularly unflattering.

She could be using some alternate method to shrink her nose, as was mentioned in the article we sourced. If she did have work done, it was subtle. At this point we don’t think she had a nose job.

Here is Alba at the ALMA awards, and at premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth” in LA. “An Inconvenient Truth” is a documentary about global warming featuring president Al Gore:

Alba is concerned about the environment and drives a hybrid Prius. You can do your part by walking and riding your bike whenever possible, replacing your lightbulbs with energy star efficient bulbs, and reusing plastic bags. Minor changes do make a difference.

Plastic Fantastic is reporting that Jessica Alba’s nose looks surgically altered based on photos taken of her several days apart last week. At the ALMA awards on 5/7 her nose looks normail, but in a photo taken at Joe Francis’ birthday party on 5/11, it looks pinched and strange. The article explains:

At first I didn’t believe that Alba got a nose job, but then I looked carefully at several before and after HQs and her nose seems to take up less space now. You can see a real difference in these two pictures:

Before HQ: 5/7/06
After HQ: 5/11/06

There’s a little discoloration in her cheeks near her nose as the article mentions. Her nose could look smaller due to a difference in the lighting or makeup, and it’s not that clear cut a difference across different photos. Her new nose doesn’t look as bad as the article suggests, but it was cuter before.

There is also a good debate on the gossip rocks forum whether or not she’s had a nose job.

Here are some more pictures to compare for yourself. These are pretty big, but you can see super high-res versions at the source:

Before pictures
After pictures

Nicole Richie is an obvious perfectionist about her body. She starves herself thin, and has admitted wanting to change her nose:

This may be her way of letting the press know that she’s about to undergo plastic surgery. Richie was photographed outside a plastic surgeon’s office on May 9th.

She needs to see a therapist and work out her issues. From what I learned from the handful of college-level psychology courses I attended while nursing a hangover, Richie suffers from body dysmorphic disorder:

Meanwhile Richie has said that she’s not friends with Paris Hilton anymore because she’s just too good for her:

Sounds like a junior-high level assessment of friendship.

Nicole looks like she has gained a little bit of essential weight. In these pictures of her shilling for Sprint at the E3 convention on Wednesday she looks slightly more healthy. Maybe her confession to Vanity Fair about being too thin helped her to eat a little bit.

Ashlee Simpson was all giggles when questioned directly whether she had plastic surgery on her nose. She simply said she “doesn’t talk about it,” which translates to “Yes, I did have plastic surgery people, leave me alone already”:

It’s ridiculous to say “who knows?” when she clearly would know.

Cityrag points out that Ashlee said she loved her nose about a year ago, claiming it gave her character:

Now that Ashlee’s single character-lending trait has been homogenized like the rest of her, we can safely assume that she’s entirely manufactured.

Here she is at the airport in Atlanta. [via]

Thanks to CityRag for the header image.

No, not in the obvious way. At least according to this story. The hospital where Star had the gastric bypass surgery that she refuses to admit to had a problem sterilizing its equipment. So this isn’t as sensational a story as we were hoping, either, sorry about that:

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If all this is true, and not some kind of conspiratorial cover up for the fact that Star’s husband infected her (we did not come up with this, the bulletin board where we found the news mentioned it first), then hopefully nothing happened to her, and she’ll be able to get on with her career of becoming the spokesperson for hemorrhoid cream after she gets booted off The View.

Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, is said to be in the running for Star’s place on The View. Star is not considered long for the show now that Rosie is taking Meredith Vieira’s seat. Star’s contract is up in September:

Nearly anyone would make a better cohost then Star.

In an awesome quote, Russell Crowe lets loose on Sharon Stone, saying that she’s had a lot of bad work done and looks like a orangutan:

That’s hysterical and we can’t wait to see what Stone says back!

Sharon Stone just doesn’t look bad because of plastic surgery. She has a bad personality of course, but she also doesn’t know how to dress. She was photographed at Koi restaurant in Beverly Hills on April 25th. WTF is she wearing here? She’s tied a scarf around her neck like a tie and she’s wearing all black with ill-fitting leather pants and a crocheted jacket with a fur collar over a see through top. That’s just wrong.

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Tom Jones, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth last week, has said that his plastic surgeon has told him not to get any more work done.

Jones, 65, also admits to dyeing his jet-black hair and beard, and has a 48 year-old son with shock-white hair.

Jones does all his own moves on stage and works out on a cross trainer an hour a day to stay in shape. He says he loves performing, gets bored if he takes time off, and has no plans to stop.

People speculated that Jones’ 49 year-marriage to Linda Woodward was in trouble when he showed up solo for his knighting ceremony. Jones said that his wife doesn’t fly after 9/11 and seems to reveal that he has a non-traditional relationship: “Neither of us felt strong enough to walk away from the marriage… There’s no need and it works for us and everything’s cool.”

Jones has a new album, Stoned in Love with DJ Chicane, that is quite catchy and will be out later this month. You can listen to the title track online. (Scroll 3/4 down the page.) It’s sure to be a hit.

Star Jones famously got a large portion of her sham wedding ceremony to Al Reynolds comped. Now she doesn’t want to pay for stripping-focused exercise lessons, since she’s not going to need them anyway:

Obviously Jones is up to her old tricks and thinks that her dim star power is enough to get her anything she wants. She should just be canned from The View already and become a spokesperson because she doesn’t have many career options left.

By all accounts, Jones’ return to the View after the health scare she suffered from breast lift surgery was unremarkable. Jones brought some falsies in for her co-hosts, saying she no longer needed them, and admitted that she did have a scare on the operating table. She continued to downplay the threat to her health though and insisted that she was “eating bacon and eggs” the next morning. Jones seemed to get along fine with Joy Behar after their snotty exchange on the phone over the air. The two must have been making a special effort.

Jones was honored by Dress for Success at the Marriot Marquis in NY last night. Dress for Success is a non-profit organization that provides secondhand business attire and interview tips to disadvantaged women. Jones must be considered a wonderful example for women afraid to ask for charity.

Here’s Jones in what’s probably a borrowed dress at the Dress for Success event last night.

Star Jones and her surgically improved body attended the Daytime Emmy Nominations Dinner in LA tonight. Star looked foolish in a white tent of a dress that showed off her higher cleavage but covered her fat ass in layers of fabric.

Star seems to be recovering from the health scare she suffered after she lost too much blood and required a transfusion during a breast lift and tummy tuck operation two weeks ago. Star claims that she was not in danger and that the risk to her health was exaggerated, but the NY Daily News unearthed a 911 call from her surgeon’s office that suggests her life was at risk.