In 1987, the American actor got Jennifer Gray (62) life turned upside down almost overnight after she hijacked the role of Frances “Baby” Houseman in the hit film “Dirty Dancing”.
To this day, the film is still considered an immortal Hollywood classic.
Gray, on the other hand, has withdrawn sharply from the limelight, but now and then she does interviews about life after success. She does too now, almost 35 years after she and Patrick Swayze were on “everyone’s” lips.
This is how it went with the “Dirty Dancing” star
In 1989, just two years after “Dirty Dancing”, Gray was to make a mistake she has regretted on the page. The error, which was operating on the nose, she has also previously commented on.
– It was the first time I had gone out in public. It became a thing, and I became completely invisible from one day to the next. In the eyes of the world, I was no longer myself, she says People.
THEN: Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray in the success from 1987. Photo: Moviestore / REX / NTB
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“The nose operation from hell”
In the biography «Out of the Corner» the star writes according to Independent that she has realized the effect plastic surgery has had on her life. She remembers, among other things, that she asked questions about why she struggled to get lucrative jobs in Hollywood.
“I spent so much energy figuring out what I was doing wrong and why I was being banished from the kingdom. That’s a lie. I banished myself “, she writes.
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Regarding the consequences of the nose operation, Gray writes that she lost her identity and career overnight.
Ten years ago, the star mentioned in an interview with Mirror the plastic surgery as «the nose operation from hell».
– Could not sit
– I entered the operating room as a celebrity and came out as an anonymous. I will always be the famous actress that no one recognizes. Because of a nose job, she said at the time.
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