Kirsten Dunst Roundup: all roles ranked, career retrospective, plastic surgery & more

[lanadelcame]

you know i agree: https://t.co/WRi1r68YAk
- rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 25, 2022

• Rachel Syme wrote an article about Kirsten Dunst's career, highlighting how unapologetically feminine her chosen roles have been.

• The author also mentions how Dunst has picked a lot of projects that were ahead of their time, like being in a superhero movie before

Comments

[miniglik]

I’ve been debating getting a breast lift and I feel so conflicted. (Not sure I can afford it anyway, but just in theory.) On one hand, contributing to shitty beauty standards; on the other hand, I’m an individual living in society with fucked up beauty standards and I can do what I want with my own body.

[miniglik]

Also: “Feels that her career isn't based on beauty anyway.”

Girl, I like you, but your character in Spider-Man was more about how your breasts looked in wet clothing than any actual character development. (Not her fault at all. But she was certainly cast because she was pretty.) She’s still talented. And I respect her choices. But being pretty helped her success.

[jmfunnyface]

I think she probably has a warped sense of her looks because Hollywood is Hollywood. She spoke about a producer driving her to get her teeth fixed without consulting her, and GoFugYourself used to call her Dr. Sunken Tits because it's an anagram of her name & loved to say she had "saggy tits" (as did people here: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/3835438.html).

[cheerspinkears]

Wow some of the comments in that post are brutal. And that write up from the OP at the top! What an ~edgy fucking asshole. I can’t see the pics but I’m sure her boobs look fine? And even if they don’t, stfu about other people’s bodies. Glad I was way too young to be on this site when this was posted bc this woulda made me feel like shit. Poor Kirsten. She definitely internalized all fucked up comments ppl used to make back then.

[pretend_to_care]

I'm super late to this post, but I ended up getting an abdominoplasty a few months ago. I had a lot of excess skin in my stomach area, and I was super insecure about it. It was at least partially done as an actual quality of life thing, since I was getting rashes and having a hard time fitting into clothes properly, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't also partially because I just wanted a flat stomach for the first time in my life and to be a little step closer to fitting into beauty standards.

I have a very supportive partner who assured me on multiple occasions that he was wildly attracted to me and wanted to make very certain that I was not doing it for his benefit solely because he loved me as I was. I never felt pressure from him at all.

That said, it was definitely a good move for me. I am so much more confident in my body, and I cried the first time I put a pair of boyshort underwear on, since I've never been able to wear them before due to all the extra skin.

[miniglik]

How long were you unable to work? I’m worried I don’t have the time off for it. I have been thinking about abs and breasts.

(I did have a flat stomach in my youth. I even had visible abs. Sigh. Not so much now.) Ive been losing weight since I’ve been on ADHD meds and it’s totally curbed the thing I did where I snacked obsessively to help me try to get enough dopamine to focus. I’m just worried as I get smaller it’s all going to be skin and pancake boobs. And my spouse is similar about not caring if I alter my body. I just want to think there’s a chance I can have a fit looking body again.

[pretend_to_care]

So, I actually had the procedure performed the week after I left a job, and I had a month before the new job started.

Tbh, healing was ROUGH. I definitely couldn’t have gone back to work the first two weeks. Maaaaybe by week three, but it would have needed to be real easy, low impact stuff. With my surgery, I was told I wasn’t even supposed to drive for 6-8 weeks (I did have to compromise on that and start driving at four weeks because I needed to get to work). I’m about seven weeks out now, and I work a job that is mostly desk-bound, but I still have limitations on what I can pick up.

If you have a job where you can work from home, you may be feeling up to working at some point in the second week, but I’d plan on at least two weeks off (and light duty for another four or so weeks).

[miniglik]

Thanks for the info. I work from home in a desk (IT) job. By next year, when I would consider this, I may be in the office a few days a week but I’m sure WFH could be managed for a few weeks.