Scary Pete Burns

**Honey** · November 30th, 2010, 07:54 AM

Nightline had a “Celebrity Plastic Surgery” segment on Tuesday, followed by a ABC Primetime “Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far” special on Wednesday. (You can watch the Nightline episode online if you’re in the US. That part starts at 8:30. Most of the segments from the “Celebrity Plastic Surgery” special are here, or you can watch it in several parts online.) Nightline spoke with a celebrity plastic surgeon named Dr. Garth Fisher who has been on Extreme Makeover, used to be married to Brooke Burke, and has fixed botched plastic surgery for Lisa Rinna and Bruce Jenner. They focused on celebrities who have admitted to the work they’ve had done, and even though we’re aware of these people it was still pretty shocking.

Dr. Fischer estimates that around 70% of celebrities have had plastic surgery. Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison, Kourtney Kardashian, Jenna Jameson and Jordan are among the women whose breasts Dr. Fisher has done. He has a “teardrop” technique that supposedly makes cleavage look more natural. He also fixes a lot of overaggressive and unnatural looking surgery from other doctors, and advises clients against getting unnecessary surgery. Of Heidi Montag’s work, he said “she looked great before the surgery… if she came into my office I probably wouldn’t have offered those things to her. We turn down… probably 40% of the people who walk into here. You really have to be the good doctor and protect them no matter who they are.”
There was some coverage of Lisa Rinna’s lip re-do, which was shown on her TV Land Reality show, Lisa loves Harry, then we got to see Pete Burns. If you’re not familiar with this guy, he’s the British former lead singer for the band Dead or Alive (they had that big hit “You Spin Me Round” in 1985) and has been on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Burns’ face is so outrageously distorted that he looks like a marionette. He’s had “dozens” of injections and procedures, including a botched nose job, silicone lip implants that got infected, steroids, filler and tissue reconstruction. He described some truly disgusting complications from his surgery. (Warning on this description, it turned my stomach.) There are also some quotes from Pete below that were shown on the Celebrity Plastic Surgery special. Pete may look completely unnatural to us, but he seems to either like it or not notice. He continues to get a ton done, and said that he has his surgeon on speed dial.

On why his botched nose job didn’t stop him
Sometimes you’re just unlucky and it was fixed. If it goes wrong and you can fix it, I don’t see why it’s any big drama.

On why he continues to get plastic surgery & injections
I see it as an artform. I see myself as my own clay, and I was remodeling it.

On when the silicone in his lips got infected
I developed rashes around the mouth, then I developed lumps. [The plastic surgeon] just kept injecting me [with steroids]
My lip was at least 18 inches away from my face, the lower lip… When you wake up and your adam’s apple has come out… further than your jaw and one side of your face is so swollen you can’t open your eye and there’s yellow discharge, not just leaking squirting with a hiss it would squirt from my face. It was like one of the worse science fiction or horror movies you could ever see.

I went as far as LA and NY to see specialists and all they could recommend was amputation…

Narrator: eventually [Pete's] lips were saved by an Italian surgeon who specializes in rebuilding faces eaten away by cancer. Burns endured two years of intensive treatment.

On fixing the botched lip implants
It was removing what amounted to pints of fluid that my body produced trying to fight this substance that was in me. I had 11 kidney stones, near liver failure, thrombosis, nearly lost sight in one eye, I couldn’t eat food.. so for two years like that.
Burns received a $700,000 settlement from the doctor who gave him those lip implants and kept injecting him with steroids instead of properly treating him. He was unable to tour or promote his greatest hits album and admits that he was suicidal at the time.

http://www.celebitchy.com/128014/pet...ction_horror_/

**Trixie** · November 30th, 2010, 08:16 AM

I saw the primetime special. The man is positively frightening. Lovely when he was talking about all the pus flying out of his face.

**twitchy2.0** · November 30th, 2010, 08:24 AM

Dr. Fischer estimates that around 70% of celebrities have had plastic surgery.

Figure seems low.

**fgg** · November 30th, 2010, 08:46 AM

i saw it too. the only thing he regrets are the botched lips. he said he'll get more PS.

**Grimmlok** · November 30th, 2010, 11:52 AM

The freak can barely talk, wtf is the point.

**Straight** · November 30th, 2010, 07:58 PM

this is more about mental illness than ps.

**Honeythorn** · November 30th, 2010, 11:51 PM

Made me so sad to see him like that. I agree with Straight, at this point it's all a mental thing now.

**Sarzy** · December 1st, 2010, 08:42 AM

I agree, he's mentally ill. The plastic surgeons should refuse to operate any more on him.

**FashionVictim** · December 14th, 2010, 06:33 PM

Well he's obviously got some psychological issues. He was a hot little bitch in the 80's.

**Honeythorn** · December 15th, 2010, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by FashionVictim

Well he's obviously got some psychological issues. He was a hot little bitch in the 80's.

No doubt! He was delicious back then. I read his book, so sad what he went through. His Mom was mental and he had to take care of her when he was a wee boy. I'm thinking that's where all this PS shit is coming from. Plus he divorced his wife of over 25 years and that hurt bad for him.

**Pippin** · December 25th, 2010, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Straight

this is more about mental illness than ps.

It is, and its got a name. Body dysmorphic disorder.

Every time that someone like Pete Burns or The Bride of Wildenstein and those of that ilk decide to have the face pulled back and all the features re-arranged, tightened, plumped out, filled up or sucked in, it generally involves anesthesia.

I'm an anonymous dull normal, an underweight crone sitting hunched by the computer reading.

I'm basically very boring...I can tell you one thing for nothing, though. I am afraid of operations/anesthesia. I don't like either.

In my very looooong lifetime, I've been lucky and I have only had to put up with three forced knockouts, i.e., surgery. I had three surgical procedures in the past, recuperated from the afore-mentioned as you might have noticed, and I don't want any more invasive procedures corrupting my body, thank you very much!

None of my surgeries were vain-related. I had to have them done. Oh, I considered having Botox procedures, I admit it. I really did. Then I caught a gander at Nicole Kidman's solid-cold ice-frozen schmuss and I changed my mind in a hurry.

Part of my innate charm is that I like to smile when talking to people, and I wink at people I like, too.

And I earned the wrinkles on my face, ding bust it!

The many other knockouts I have had and might continue to have are self-induced, i.e. guzzling too much beer.