Why Kate Hudson's (Alleged) Breast Implants Have Me Heartbroken

Kate Hudson has gotten implants. Allegedly. This news headed straight to my heart from the lips of Wendy Williams who got it from some gossip rag. My coffee was getting cold while I, heartbroken, sadly gazed at the before and after pictures of Kate Hudson on the screen. The before: an amazingly fit, gorgeous, and yes, small-breasted young woman in a to-die-for red bikini; in the other, a blond starlet sipping a latte. The cup size was undeniably different. (And no, we're not speaking of the latte.) Was there a chance it was merely a hardworking push-up bra? I find myself practically praying over Kate's boobs. Pathetic, I know. (It signals a lack of employment on my part, getting sucked in like this by media gossip.) But unlike Sandra's divorce drama - which shook me up and had me wanting some very, very bad things to happen to Jesse James, but in a way I'd feel if it happened to a really good friend of mine, not ME - this one feels personal.

My issue here isn't with Kate. If big boobs make her happier, then more power to her. The issue here, this fixing something perfect to something else perfect, is so much a sign of our times, and one that truly saddens me. The availability and ease of transforming our bodies is completely losing our identities and uniqueness. No one ages anymore, no one has imperfections of any kind anymore, all smiles are flawless and no one past 35 can express displeasure. Madonna no longer looks like Madonna: what started as a sexy, well shaped, and somewhat hairy Italian girl has ended as a cool Nordic blonde. It's not that she doesn't look great, she does. But she is starting to sort of melt away into the stew of the famous women over-fifty-high-cheek-boned blondes-who-cannot-frown.

Generally, I'm all for self-improvement. If you don't know something, do look it up. Do learn another language, do travel, do open your heart and mind to new experiences. And by all means, pluck your mono-brow, dye your mouse-brown hair and work out to firm your body; after all, if fashion changes to celebrate hairy plump women you can go right back. But please, before permanently removing or adding a part to you to fit societal graphs of pulchritude, consider that that change will be permanent. If, a hundred years ago, you were unhappy with your nose - tough luck. You could hide your flaws, accentuate your strengths, and sometimes, more often than not, realize your flaws were your strengths and were precisely what made you unique and beautiful. That's how, for example, we got the incomparable portrait of a large nosed Madame X, proudly displaying a profile that makes ME want a big nose.

Personally, I believe that every woman in the world is beautiful. Sometimes the distribution of her attributes is not immediately apparent; sometimes it's a little uneven, but if she knew how to celebrate the things she was given, whether it's a beautiful pair of eyes or legs, or intellect, or a sense of humor- she could see how uniquely beautiful she was. Lest you feel like interjecting, "oh please, easy for you to say, Miss Former Supermodel..." for your information, I have saddlebags and cellulite, and no matter how hard I work out, that is my body shape and I'm stuck with it. I look horrendous in short shorts and any pant or trouser that is tight in the thigh. But, for the body type of a saddlebag/cellulite, I think I look really great. I have a small waist (which seems to come with my specific body type) and so I take every opportunity to show that off. In my opinion, I'm one hot example of a saddlebag/cellulite woman over forty. If I went and lipo-ed my thighs to the size of Gisele's, I still wouldn't look anything like her, and instead, I'd start looking like everyone else. I would be a poor example of a woman with skinny thighs. That is my trouble with Kate. I used to use her as an example of the perfect beauty with a small chest. Now, with her new boobs, she just looks like any California blond actress. Instead of enhancing, she has diminished herself.

Wouldn't Audrey Hepburn, Jane Birkin, Twiggy, Charlotte Rampling, and Jean Harlow have lost their special brand of elegant, feline sexiness if they were tipping over under the weight of great ol' mammaries? Compare any one of these natural beauties to someone like Heidi Montag, and it's like comparing a Hastens Swedish handmade mattress to a cheap plastic pool float.

So why? Why do we all want to look the same? It can't all be about being attractive to the opposite sex. There are men who prefer the full breast; there are men who prefer the well-shaped leg or the round behind. There are all sorts of tastes out there, for all sorts of women. And the way to get their attention is by being different, by standing out. Once you start to blend in, you are no longer special.

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Comments

[DukeNukem007]

11:55 AM on 06/04/2010

I sure love this woman! Humor, intelligence, clever wit and ultra hot to boot. The improv is waiting Paulina.

[James738849983]

03:43 PM on 05/10/2010

I take it you are equally upset with Julia Louis Dreyfus, who appears to have gotten breast enlargements as well:

http://www.examiner.com/x-14650-Entertainment-Examiner%7Ey2010m5d7-Did-Julia-Louis-Dreyfus-get-breast-implants

[kirkland]

10:34 PM on 05/09/2010

Fantastic. Refreshing. Authentic ( which is becoming the new rare commodity, especially among all the engineered everythings ). What I miss most in our culture is uniqueness and individuality. We have diluted beauty ( the odd freckle, the rubenesque thigh , the ancestoral chin ) to the point where it becomes generically mundane. The fake breast meme is especially tragic, mho. Having nothing to do with obvious reasons and everything to do with subtextual ones. Everyday I TG that I am happy with my body, my *ride* . I cannot imagine the discomfort which people allow to be cultivated within their most essential self by a social madness. Healthy is sexy. Always was, always will be. I am suprised how pack driven people seem to be as reflected in the choices which they make. To me it speaks to some personal agony that I'd free any woman from if I were queen for a day or an uber healer.

[newunderground]

07:00 PM on 05/09/2010

You're right, Paulina, women are their own worst enemies in the looks depatment. Men are sexually attracted to a wide variety of women. It's not all cookie-cutter beauty as the mags would have you believe.

[Freesia2]

06:08 PM on 05/09/2010

Lovely article Palina.

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[Strepsi]

01:45 PM on 05/09/2010

"Why do we all want to look the same?" BRAVO.

Jennifer Gray ("Dirty Dancing") is the ultimate example of this. When she got her nose job, she went from uniquely recognizable, odd, and compelling actress to one of 1,000 blonde starlets with bobbed noses. Her career died.

There are 1,000 ingenues with big boobs, they rotate through 2 1/2 men as Charlie's conquests. Kate Hudson is a leading lady and Goldie Hawn's daughter and is already recognizable and unique. Absoltuely pointless to have done this.

[J A Burton]

09:35 PM on 05/12/2010

Jennifer Gray did NOT voluntarily change the shape of her nose. She went in for a deviated septum, and the surgeon botched the job. She sued him, and won.

She's done a pretty good job of rebuilding her career, too, and did a marvelous run of jokes about her nose in the short-lived series, "It's Like, You Know".

[TXfemmom]

01:20 PM on 05/09/2010

I think Kate looked fine before her surgery. I gave anesthesia for many breast implant surgeries and then for taking many of them out after they caused severe complications during my career. At least Kate's were tastefully done and in very good relation to her thin frame and chest wall. Did she need to have it done...no...but as long as she doesn't go hog wild and do other things over and over I am not going to get teary eyed over it.

Let's face it, however, having foreign bodies in one's body when one doesn't medically need to have it is a bad thing.

[monsterna]

12:55 PM on 05/09/2010

Two points, which have both been made below: this is only an allegation, and plastic surgery has legitimately made a lot of peoples' lives better. It's not always for attracting a mate. A lot of the time, and maybe even most of the time, it's for the individual's happiness. I'm not advocating looking like a cat lady, I just mean little things like fixing a huge nose or whatever.

So what if Kate got implants? It would be something to ridicule if Kate got anything above a full B or very small C... her frame is not suited to anything much more. Her small implants are much better than the F's that Montag got (who really wanted H's... you know, for "Heidi"... let's all point and laugh). Also, not having a big chest really makes some women feel less feminine. It's not about all the magazines and the movie starts, it's just something innate, and this isn't the first time in history these issues have come up. How many "magic" remedies do you think existed hundreds, even thousands, of years ago that would magically make a woman's chest bigger?

Stop blaming the media for everything. As humans, we know what is attractive, to ourselves and to others. If anything, plastic surgery weeds out the superficial women AND men whom NO ONE should want to be with in the first place. I like that.

[TankGirlz]

12:16 PM on 05/09/2010

This needed to be said..good job

[oncesung]

09:29 AM on 05/09/2010

I don't think attracting men is what motivates actresses or models to transform bodies, it is attracting money.

[Jane S Samson]

10:32 PM on 04/30/2010

this is the only thing I can say...Natural is ALWAYS beautiful! :)

[JLSR]

03:37 PM on 04/30/2010

Paulina, I agree with your assessment, completely. As far as the aging--where will all the cute, quaint, white-haired (and blue and purple-haired) old ladies be? Children will no longer know what an older person, aging naturally, is supposed to look like. Grandmas will all look like they're in their 40s until the day they die. Sad.

[oncesung]

09:31 AM on 05/09/2010

C'mon, blue and purple hair aren't natural either. These are possibly the very grandmas who nowadays fill their brows with botox, their boobs with silicone, and that white hair with blond dye.

[BareheadedWoman]

07:33 AM on 06/04/2010

either way, it's still Logan's Run.

[No Cones]

06:01 PM on 04/29/2010

The reaction to this article is amazing - everything from "the pot calling the kettle black' to "who cares?" to "my nose job saved me life". But the fact there are 506 posts should indicate something. I can relate to Paulina's words about heartbreak at the thought that this beautiful woman felt the need to put silicone in her chest to fulfill some kind of large breast fetish our society has. I say "whatever" to cosmetic procedures in general, but breast implants are the modern equivalent of Chinese foot-binding - the destruction of a body part's natural function for the satisfaction of an unwarrented fetish. Let's evolve already!

[BareheadedWoman]

07:34 AM on 06/04/2010

"breast implants are the modern equivalent of Chinese foot-binding"

good analogy

[Marcia75]

11:12 AM on 04/28/2010

If Kate thinks the alleged new boobs are going to enhance her career, maybe she should take some refresher courses in acting and pick some better movies.

[iratior]

01:55 AM on 04/28/2010

"If you don't know something, do look it up." I couldn't agree more with Paulina Porizkova on that one. And the thing to look up is: Hebeloma. Because if Kate Hudson could have a sister Hebeloma with the same surname, it could be HEBELOMA HUDSON. The alliteration rings in one's ears. Now, as Ms. Porizkova advises, look up Hebeloma on the internet. You will, I hope, learn that it is a rather obscure genus of brown-spored, gilled mushrooms, at least some of which are considered to be poisonous. Ms. Porizkova could thereby be very much entertained, and would not need to feel depressed about the possibility that Kate Hudson has had breast implants.