Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With Jeff Bezos’ Face?

Jeff Bezos’ face appears, properly, totally different currently: his lips are plumped as much as near-Kardashian proportions, and his cheeks look extra full, as if somebody used Facetune to increase his face and head.

It’s unknown if Bezos has had work of any type carried out. If he has, there’s no disgrace—not like, his critics would say, union-busting, tax evasion, and capturing your self into house whereas the remainder of the world crumbles. And so many have been fast to take to TikTok and social media to invest on “Juvederm Jeff,” as one Instagram commentator put it.

Bezos has but to make any touch upon the subject, and Amazon PR didn’t reply to a request for remark. We don’t know if the 57 year-old has seen a beauty dermatologist or plastic surgeon. So questions stay. Particularly, why would the world’s richest man wish to appear like that?

Such inquiries have develop into the most recent method for dissenters to voice their disdain for one of many pandemic’s favourite villains, whose wealth has skyrocketed whereas so many individuals have struggled.

“I don’t essentially suppose individuals care that he [might have] had work carried out,” Corey Kindberg, a model strategist, stated. “I really feel like we’ve moved previous the stigma of getting injections. I positively had extra of a visceral response to Jeff utilizing filler—if he has used it. You simply suppose, somebody with this type of cash, might afford to have the very best filler on this planet. To me, he might have gold melted down and injected into his face. It’s simply sort of stunning to see that, if he has had it, irrespective of how wealthy you might be, you can nonetheless get dangerous filler.”

“How are you going to not be obsessed [with how Bezos looks]? It’s such a drastic change,” Dr. Corey L. Hartman, a dermatologist in Birmingham, Alabama and social media character, instructed The Every day Beast.

As Dr. Hartman posted on Instagram final week: “We see you, Jeff. Subsequent time get the filler a month earlier in order that the swelling has time to die down. Retains individuals (like me) out of your small business.”

“He’s a straightforward goal,” Dr. Hartman stated. “Clearly he doesn’t care as a result of to me it appears prefer to me that he went and acquired his very apparent filler and injectables carried out proper earlier than he burst into the highlight with this journey into house.”

Dr. Hartman, who has not handled Bezos, doesn’t wish to perpetuate a stigma in opposition to beauty remedies—in spite of everything, he performs them on daily basis. “Extra males who’re into this could go for it,” he stated. “So, good for Bezos for stepping out and never being afraid to go for it.”

Just a few ideas, although: Dr. Hartman would suggest that anybody who will get fillers give themselves the week following the process to recuperate and steer clear of cameras. And spaceships.

“These are short-term implants that your pores and skin is just not used to, and your pores and skin goes to answer what you’ve put in it,” Dr. Hartman stated. “Ice packs assist and I really like to make use of antihistamines [to reduce swelling]. There may be additionally the potential for bruising. I feel if Bezos had it, he ought to have given himself a bit extra time earlier than going out, and acquired it steadily as a substitute of all of sudden, it wouldn’t be as noticeable.”

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One redditor who goes by the username u/miniminifare posted a photograph of Bezos to r/BotchedSurgeries, a discussion board that discusses “mishaps, black market procedures, unlawful injections, and extra.”

“What did he do to himself??” u/miniminifare wrote.

“Each superstar will get work carried out, it isn’t the work itself individuals are focused on,” u/miniminifare instructed The Every day Beast. “I feel the transformation is extra charming for individuals. I feel cosmetic surgery or beauty touch-ups like fillers are fairly widespread and when carried out accurately might be refined and efficient. I feel the purpose was that he seemed tremendous puffy in that individual picture.”

He added that, “Watching Jeff Bezos change from being a nerdy tech man to a dirty wealthy playboy has been fascinating… The transformation he’s going by is noteworthy, and I can see him getting extra work carried out. I additionally thought it was humorous to see him like that—who likes Jeff Bezos today, anyway?”

Charles Gross, a trend and wonder TikToker who has had “fairly a protracted, good and dangerous historical past with fillers, Botox, and different non-invasive procedures,” thinks he is aware of what Bezos, if he has had work, goes for. “I assume the adjectives he and his workforce are most likely utilizing are: suave, youth-appealing, distinguished, the look of somebody who has cash,” Gross stated. “I get George Clooney’s edgier brother type of factor. That’s what he’s going for. Is it essentially translating? I’m unsure. Possibly he simply went a bit too onerous and tried to go for George Clooney. Nevertheless it’s giving George Clooney on the structure of Jeff Bezos’ face.”

Phillip Picardi, the previous editor-in-chief of Out, will get filler himself. “I don’t care what he does to his face,” he stated. “I’d care if he might create higher labor practices, that will be cooler. Speaking about his lips in a method is lacking the purpose and continues to make him this caricature. However on the identical time, his lip filler is an effective way to get us to speak about him as an individual who must be held publicly accountable.”

Picardi agrees with Dr. Hartman’s less-is-more strategy. “Go a lot lighter than you suppose is critical,” he stated. “Say to the physician or nurse practitioner: ‘I don’t wish to look totally different after I go away this workplace. I wish to appear like I had a nap and am extra refreshed. Let it settle and begin small for a few months.”

Which is, in fact, not what Bezos did. However any perceived overzealousness on his half speaks to the general public’s interpretation of him as a Lex Luthor-type determine. “If you’re a man like Jeff Bezos and also you suppose you already know every part, possibly you’re not listening to a medical supplier who’s attempting to inform you, ‘Sir, go this fashion.’ That is what occurs if you suppose you already know higher than the physician does.”

Picardi added: “Boarding an enormous dick into house is the top of poisonous masculinity, and right here you might be exhibiting up in lip fillers. On its face, that seems to be a contradiction. However in actuality all of it makes good sense: in fact a person of that stature is enormously involved along with his look.”