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Plastic surgery is a controversial topic. On the one hand, organizations like Operation SMILE are legit doing good in the world, and on the other, you've got the connotations of boob jobs, liposuctions, and dudes vain enough to get calf implants. But man, it gets much, much worse than calf implants. Don't believe us? Just take a look at these 9 case studies in extreme cosmetic surgeries. It's amazing the lengths these men went to in order to achieve a certain degree of artificial youthfulness, or fully execute their vision for self-expression via grotesque medical operation. Whatever floats your boat, dudes. Check out these 9 Guys Who Went Through Way Too Much Plastic Surgery.
Mike Jeffries
The former CEO of Abercrombie certainly bought into the culture that made the brand so successful for a while. “Dude, I’m not an old fart,” he once said of his bleached blond hair. But at the age of 70, maybe it's time to give the faux Cali surfer life a merciful retirement.
Carrot Top
What happened to this dude's freckles? Or his eyebrows? Or, you know, the rest of him? At least most of the guys on this list cop to plastic surgery and steroids, whereas this seems to all the world like history's most inept denial.
Pete Burns
We're all for androgyny, but the frontman for Dead or Alive has clearly augmented his face to a place where it should not tread, including a botched lip job in 2004.
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
Famous for writing science fiction and fiction disguised as science (a theoretical physics paper that was later thoroughly debunked), the Bogdanoff are equally fantastical about their appearances, after plastic surgery that turned their youthful looks into something resembling that robot ninja from Robocop 3.
Toby Sheldon
Wanting to look like Justin Bieber and not succeeding is like, the quadruple nut punch of cosmetic procedures.
Dennis Avner
The “Stalking Cat” wanted to follow the ways of his totem, the tiger, and took it very literally, including a bifurcated lip, whiskers, and even a mechanical tail. He died in 2012, from an alleged suicide.
Herbert Chavez
You know what's most important about Superman? That he's an indestructible, incorruptible guardian alien. Least important? That cowlick. This guy got it backward.
Gavin Paslow
Lots of metalheads love to look like Satan. Most of them don't go for actual implanted horns and a forked tongue, which probably makes Paslow the only one to commit tax fraud in order to do all that. Crime can pay, kids…but only if you spend it right.
Justin Jedlica
The “Human Ken,” as he calls himself, has spent over $200 grand on 20 surgeries to look like the world's most famous male side piece, including a recent, horrifyingly dangerous procedure to remove some hardly noticeable veins from his forehead. But when you're chasing the image of a literal plastic doll, no detail is too small to be buffed (or sliced) out. What's weirder is that Jedlica isn't the only Human Ken Doll. Just recently, another Human Ken Doll, Brazilian Celso Santebanes, tragically passed away from leukemia.