The rhinoplasty that destroyed the career of Jennifer Grey, star of Dirty Dancing
Families The unknown illegitimate son of Patrick Swayze: a valued football player who does not want his share of the inheritance
"I went into the operating room being a celebrity and came out an anonymous person," confesses Jennifer Gray (62)
after undergoing several rhinoplasties to correct a
congenital facial anomaly called the proboscis.
In her recently published biography of her,
Out of the Corner,
a title that refers to what Patrick Swayze told her in
Dirty Dancing
(1987) "no one corners Baby" she psychoanalyzes herself to the point of considering herself "invisible" behind the scenes. two surgeries.
It is in this display to freeze time despite the metamorphosis of the stage that the identity problems that affect numerous stars of the show arise.
At first, Gray's was for health, but
little by little his face had nothing to do with the virginal daughter of Joel Gray
(90), winner of an Oscar for his role as master of ceremonies in
Cabaret
( 1972).
Turned into the new 'girlfriend of America' with 27 years and 50,000 dollars in her pocket,
a ridiculous cache if one takes into account that the film generated 213 million dollars
and more than 5 million soundtrack discs were sold, Jennifer Gray was predestined to be part of the new Olympus of rising stars.
But everything was cut short.
Still from the movie 'Dirty Dancing'
She had always respected that other classic actors of Jewish origin had had surgery to hide their nose, but those stories did not go with her.
However, when in 1989 he
succumbed to the suggestions of his mother, the actress and singer Jo Wilder
(84) and three surgeons, he was not aware that he had just signed a pact with the (same) devil as Oscar's Dorian Gray Wilde.
Paradoxes of life.
Both surnames are pronounced the same in English.
The first intervention was a failure and he underwent a second one to repair the damage.
Things got worse.
When she looked in the mirror she didn't recognize herself:
"It was like entering a witness protection program."
Far from becoming paranoid, the actress pinched herself several times to see if she was hallucinating.
But she didn't need to.
She suffered it raw.
In her first public appearance at a film premiere,
Michael Douglas did not recognize her and
"that situation made me invisible."
From that moment she began to repent for life.
On another occasion, when she showed her passport to an airline employee, she told her that there happened to be an actress with the same name as her.
The invisibility was already palpable at the popular level.
She was not consoled by other aesthetic attacks such as those of Michael Jackson or Donatella Versace (67).
But the disappointments do not end there.
During her youth she was part of Andy Warhol's gang in The Factory, so when the master of pop art published
Diaries
(1989) he wanted to know if he named her.
What a disappointment he got!
She read that the artist agreed with Jo Wilder's opinion and
commented that if her father had gotten a new nose, why didn't she do the same?
From the age of thirty, Jennifer Grey's career was never the same.
They barely called her for the castings
and the films in which she participated-
If the shoe fits
(1990),
The force of the wind
(1992),
Hollywood Thieves
(2011)-the sorrows weighed more than her glories.
In private, the
Dirty Dancing
star had a hard time finding stability.
She briefly dated Michael J. Fox, 60, who would soon marry Tracy Pollan, 61, a friend of Grey's from private school.
She subsequently dated Matthew Broderick
- Sarah Jessica Parker's soulmate for twenty-five years - with whom she had an unfortunate incident in the summer of 1987 during a road trip in Northern Ireland.
Apparently, the actor invaded the opposite lane, which caused the instant death of a mother and her daughter when they were rammed head-on.
Another image from the movie
Jennifer walked away from the cinema: "My mind had changed. My priorities were no longer the same."
She was very touched emotionally.
She has also dated Johnny Depp (58) and Bill Clinton's former assistant
George Stephanopoulos (61).
She eventually married actor and director Clark Gregg (60) in 2001, whom she divorced last year and with whom she has a daughter, Stella (20).
After everything she has faced in life, Jennifer Gray has opened up on the channel in the last interviews granted by ensuring that during the filming of
Dirty Dancing
there was no connection between her and Patrick Swayze, who died in 2009 from cancer of pancreas.
The producers forced them to shoot and the bad vibes reverberated off camera.
That is why, after reflecting, he assures that if he had the chance, he would apologize: "If I could say anything to him now, I would say:
'I am very sorry for not having been able to appreciate and take delight in who you were
, instead of wishing you were more like I wanted you to go
. "
For his part, Swayze was so pleased when in his biography he confessed that
"Working with Gray was extremely irritating"
because she refused to rehearse scenes that didn't work out and if they said something bad about her she would burst into tears.
Perhaps it can be made up for soon, since the sequel to the teenage musical is scheduled to be shot at the end of the year, in which Gray will once again be Frances 'Baby' Houseman as well as executive producer.
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