美國女性：想和茱麗一樣美

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is the gold standard of beauty among women seeking cosmetic surgery and that's not about to change, a leading Hollywood surgeon has told Australian specialists.

The US movie star has the most requested look - exaggerated, almost cartoonish lips, eyes and cheek bones - desired by American women wanting a nip and tuck, Professor Ava Shamban says.

The Los Angeles-based cosmetic dermatologist told a gathering of 400 fellow Australian specialists that demand for this brand of exotic look is here to stay.

"Angelina Jolie, with her exquisite looks, is the current gold standard of beauty in the states and in the West in general right now," said Prof Shamban, who has appeared on the chat show Oprah and the reality TV series Extreme Makeover.

"And that's not about to change. The exotic look, like (actresses) Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz, is here to stay, and Angelina is the ultimate embodiment of that."

The UCLA academic and practising specialist made the claim during a presentation on the benefits of beauty at a national cosmetic medicine conference in Melbourne.

Good-looking people marry more, marry better, earn more and are assisted more readily by strangers, and studies have shown that even babies prefer to look at attractive faces, she said.

Thanks to cosmetic surgery, "we can now hold onto our beauty for longer", Professor Shamban said, but she warned that as the artists of this generation, surgeons must take their role seriously.

"Features like Angelina's won't fit every face and we must take care with that," she said.

Australian College of Cosmetic Surgery president Michael Zacharia said requests for Jolie's looks were becoming increasingly frequent.

"It's common to hear people say 'I want lips or cheekbones like Angelina Jolie's', and her association with Brad Pitt has just accentuated this," Dr Zacharia said.

He said the trend was probably helped by a growth in non-surgical treatments, predominantly Botox, to flatten creases, and dermal fillers to plump up sagging skin - both of which aid in "enhancing" features.

Sydney-based sexual health psychologist Professor Jane Ussher said the trend was concerning because Jolie's looks were statistically abnormal.

"She is arguably a human representation of a cartoon character, similar to those Bratz dolls, and virtually no-one looks like that," Prof Ussher said.

"If you buy into the idea that that (look) is perfect then you'll never feel good about yourself because you'll never attain it."

好萊塢一位著名外科醫生日前告訴澳大利亞的整形專家，安吉麗娜·茱麗是那些想做整容手術的女性心目中的美人標準，而且這一標準不會改變。

艾娃·沙姆班教授說，這位美國影星擁有美國愛美的女性最想要的面孔--誇張得近乎有些卡通的嘴脣、眼睛和顴骨。

這位洛杉機的整容皮膚科醫生對400名澳大利亞的同行們說，人們對這種帶有點異國情調的長相的青睞會持續一段時間。

沙姆班教授在參加
“奧普拉脫口秀”和“整容真人秀”節目時說，“安吉麗娜·茱麗精緻的面孔是目前美國和西方普遍認同的美麗標準。”

“而且這個標準不會改變。像哈里·貝瑞和佩內洛普·克魯茲她們那種帶有異國風情的長相一直是美的典範，而安吉麗娜則是這種特點的‘終極體現’。”

在墨爾本召開的全國整容醫學會上，這位來自美國加州大學洛杉機分校的理論和實踐專家在介紹美的益處時提出了這一觀點。

她說，長得漂亮的人嫁人的機會更多，嫁得更好，能賺更多的錢，而且更容易得到陌生人的幫助。此外，研究顯示，就連嬰兒也愛看漂亮的臉蛋。

沙姆班教授說，多虧了整容手術，“現在我們可以讓美麗常駐”。但她同時告誡整容專家，作爲這一代的藝術家，整容師們必須認真對待自己的工作。

她說，“安吉莉娜的五官不可能適合每一張臉，我們必須要注意這一點。”

澳大利亞整容學院院長邁克爾·澤查利說，要求按茱麗的容貌做整容的人越來越多了。

他說，“經常聽到人們說‘我想要安吉麗娜·茱麗那樣的嘴脣或顴骨’，而安吉麗娜與布拉德·皮特的結合則使人們的這種願望更加強烈。”

他說這種潮流可能是受日益增多的非手術整容的影響，尤其是通過注射Botox祛皺和注射真皮脂肪豐臉，兩者都有助於“突顯”輪廓。

悉尼性健康心理學家簡·阿瑟教授說，這種趨勢應該引起關注，因爲茱麗的長相從統計學上看是不正常的。

“她可以被視爲與Bratz娃娃很相像的卡通形象的真人版，但實際上沒有人能長那麼漂亮。”

“如果你認爲她的相貌是完美的，那麼你永遠都不會覺得自己美麗，因爲你永遠無法變成那樣。”