Posted on 05/11/2011 6:20:54 AM PDT by smokingfrog
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Bristol Palin admits her recent change in appearance was due to a procedure - but not plastic surgery.
The 20-year-old daughter of 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells Us Weekly that she underwent corrective jaw surgery in December, a month after she finished third on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." Her face now appears thinner, with higher cheekbones and an angular jaw.
The new look, complete with Palin losing 5 pounds, was unveiled April 30 at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C.
"Yes, it improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons," she told the magazine for its May 23 issue, which will be on newsstands Friday.
Palin said she had the procedure so her jaw and teeth could properly realign.
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Corrective jaw surgery, LOL, not a face rebuild, and MJ had corrective noise surgery. Good One, LOL!!!!
Yeah, and people have nose jobs for “medical reasons” to correct a deviated septum. Whatever.
I have a few friends who have had corrective jaw surgery. It does make them look like a whole new person, but I’m not sure if it is a must-have procedure for medical reasons.
So it does happen Mr. World Traveler.
Woo, 5 whole pounds. /sarc
Why don’t these people just admit that they had some work done to improve their appearance? I heard her complaining on Sarah’s Alaska show that she had no chin. Why do they have to make it look like it was for medical reasons?
I guess she’ll be getting a “medical” boob job next.
Oh well - off to work.
I kind of buy it.
My daughter was supposed to have a jaw-lengthening surgery, but she refused precisely because it would lengthen her jaw and change her appearance. (The jaw-wiring was off-putting as well...)
She eventually found another dentist that sculpted her teeth so they’d better align. The procedure took about ten minutes, no pain or injections and ended years of migraines.
That is true MJ was having trouble breathing, he thought a smaller noise would help.
Yikes! The same person?? BIG IMPROVEMENT, I’d say>
It is medically necessary. When the bite isn’t aligned right a person can end up with TMJ to the point of arthritis and massive migraines.
At one point one of daughter’s jaw joints swelled so much that it actually changed her face shape for months. She had to go on a liquid diet and wear a spacer for two weeks just to let the joint recover.
“Palin said she had the procedure so her jaw and teeth could properly realign.
While growing up, she wore braces and a device to help correct an overbite. But she said her dentist warned her that she’d have to have surgery one day...
“I wouldn’t get plastic surgery unless I got in an accident or something terrible and got disfigured,” she said.”
Doubt that will silence the anti-Palin douchebag brigade, but one can try.
That’s not possible...all the palinites here told us last week it was just weight loss.
Yeah, right. LOL
looking at picture, she has same overbite, but you can now plow potatoes with that chin.
So they can get their insurance to pay for it.
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