Love Island is not the first time women with ‘fake’ faces have been belittled
The IndependentSign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Contestant Hugo Hammond’s repeated disparagement of women who were “fake” was read as a slight against women who chose plastic surgery. The game’s neglect of the growing market in men’s plastic surgery and the association of aesthetic surgeries with “fake” bodies and personalities isn’t surprising. Perhaps ‘Love Islander’ Aaron Francis should have landed in hotter water for naming women’s arm hair as his biggest turn-off In 17th- and 18th-century Britain, this operation was associated with another kind of damaged nose: the collapsed nasal bridge caused by syphilis. The conundrum of ‘effortless’ beauty Perhaps Love Islander Aaron Francis should have landed in hotter water for naming women’s arm hair as his biggest turn-off.
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Queen of plastic surgery Katie Price says there's 'nothing worse' than young girls getting filler (and insists she's 'not a hypocrite' because she didn't touch her face until her 40s)
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Hugo from Love Island has revealed his biggest ‘turn-off’ – but who decides what a ‘fake face’ looks like?
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The Love Island discussion on plastic surgery was eye opening - but let’s not pretend it’s a feminist act
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