Tom Ford is a fashion designer who ventured into directing. But it seems he’s making a larger career out of shading celebrities these days. I guess do what you love, right? While on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, he didn’t name names – although I’m sure he wanted to – but he did offer up his thoughts on injectables. According to TF, everyone is overdoing it. Specifically, celebrities. Tom asked, “Oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?”

Tom Ford isn’t holding back in his opinion about celebrity beauty standards.

The 61-year-old fashion designer was a guest on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, where he opened up about how many of them have become harmful, not only to the celebrity, but their fans as well.

Tom shared on the program that “people are injecting way too many things in their face…You look at a lot of celebrities now and you just think ‘Oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?”

He then added that “they don’t even look like themselves any longer.”

Tom also spoke about the celebrities taking part in the cosmetic procedures are going too far and compared it to a form of dysmorphia.

“It is truly dysmorphia. I think a lot of these people lose touch with who they were; they see a line and they think they have to fill it; they see a wrinkle and they’ve got to fill it; They see someone else’s mouth and they think they need to have that,” he says.

[From Just Jared]

I’m not going to agree with Tom, but I don’t think he’s entirely wrong. There are celebrities that suffer from dysmorphia, of course, and that’s a very sad thing. I truly hope they get the help they need for that. I agree that some people get overzealous and fill any line that appears simply because they liked the results of the last one. Unfortunately, the overall effect leads to a general homogenizing of their features. But maybe they prefer that look to the lines, I don’t know. Tom’s question, “oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?” is predicated on his belief that, “they don’t even look like themselves any longer.” But perhaps that individual can’t see themselves in the lined face looking back at them either. I’m not defending plastic surgery, I’m just saying folks are just out here doing what they need to to get by. Tom is, in my opinion, a nice looking man. If he has not had any work done, he’s won some genetic lottery and should thank whatever sunscreen he’s using for his 61-year-old taught skin. But also recognize that affects the ease with which one can dismiss the sirens call of Botox or other tweaks.

I just want people to look in the mirror and feel joy with the person looking back at them. Not to hide a piece of them, not because a magazine made them feel bad, not because someone else’s negative whisper still rings in their ears, but because they like the look of that face staring at them. So it’s not that I don’t understand what Tom is talking about, I do. I’m just feeling more generous to people as I age. Let them be them, whatever that looks like.

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