Chloe Lattanzi is Olivia Newton-John’s daughter. She’s 31 and the few times we’ve talked about her have been about her body image image issues and extensive plastic surgery. She will admit to having fillers in her face, which she said she’s had removed, to getting her lips augmented and to having her breasts done. She also has revealed that she suffered from body dysmorphia and struggled with anorexia as a teen. She’s said in the past that she hasn’t had any plastic surgery on her face, in which case I assume she’s omitting her nose job and lip implants. Anyway in a new interview with Australian publication Women’s Day [via US Magazine], Chloe talks about her plastic surgery disasters and the rumors that she’s had even more done.
On the work she’s had done
All those things were a disaster. Not only did the lip implants look ridiculous, the first boob op I had in Australia when I was 18, left me looking mutilated.She had her boob job corrected last year
Now I’m a 32DD and I love my body and love showing my new boos off. Mum supported my surgery decisions because she knew how unhappy I was before.Denies she had a rib removed
I’d never dream of removing a vital part of my anatomy. I wear a waist trainer and work out to stay in shape.
[From Women’s Day via US Magazine]
I couldn’t find this interview on Women’s Day’s website so I’m assuming US got it from the print edition, but I would like to see more context. Still, I saw Chloe interviewed on The Doctors last year and she seemed to contradict herself a few times and you could tell that she’s still struggling with these issues. It’s like she wants to get things fixed, doesn’t like the results, gets them fixed again and it becomes a cycle.
Chloe had a lot of problems with trolls on social media, but she’s since made her Instagram private, which is probably a good idea for her. She also has an has a singing career and according to Women’s Day she recently moved to Oregon to start a marijuana farm with her fiance, a personal trainer named James Driskill.
Chloe in 2002:
Chloe in 2005 with her mom:
2016 with her mom:
photos credit: FameFlynet, WENN and Getty
Her pose in that 2016 photo is ridiculous.
It’s probably comments like that which added to her image issues. So, congrats. 🙁
If anything, DJ is specifically NOT harshing on her looks. Her pose has nothing to do with all the stupid shit she’s done to her face or body.
Poses aren’t surgical.
God that’s so sad.. They almost look the same age now.
She should have stopped with the first picture with her mom, she looked just fine,very pretty. Some thicker eyebrows and kept her natural hair and she seemed less plastic.
She was cute as pie to begin with.
I say it all the time… So glad I never messed with anything. I hated my tiny boobs when I was younger. The older I get the more I love what my body looks like. I don’t want to look like everyone else. I want to look like me…. As imperfect as that is.
Of course, I guess this isn’t as simple as my situation. I am assuming it takes some pretty deep issues for people to want to over haul themselves to look completely different. That has to be a tough road.
Hollywood pressures and having a beautiful mom probably didn’t help with her self-perception.
Christ that’s a lot of nipping and tucking. She looks so old now. Some of these “doctors” really should have their licenses revoked. Whatever happened to do no harm?
Doctors like their holiday homes in the Hamptons or in Hawaii. Those places don’t pay for themselves.
Not to mention, that assumes that the doctors think this work looks bad. Have you actually seen some of the LA based docs themselves?
Some of them are a very bad advert for their own practice. Apart from doctors who became plastic surgeons to actually help people with real problems, all the others are in for the money.
Bridget, I imagine them to resemble that plastic surgeon from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
My dad has a good friend who is a retired plastic surgeon, and he always compares it to being a bartender: just as a bartender has a responsibility to cut someone off when they’ve stumbling around and slurring, a doctor has a responsibility to refuse a patient and recommend that they get help if there’s an obvious issue with body image. A true alcoholic will probably just find another doctor, and someone with body dysmorphia will find a more unscrupulous doctor, but doing the right thing has to start somewhere.
I really like this analogy.
You do your best to keep someone from harm.
Correcting myself: I meant to say the alcoholic will find another bar. I hate it when I miss the editing window!
That poor girl. I hope her struggles help someone. This genuinely breaks my heart. I can’t imagine being the daughter of ONJ or Christie Brinkley. It was bad enough just going through puberty!
Not long ago she was saying that she never had plastic surgery and now this.. from how crazed her eyes look, I don’t think she is all there and she might need help.
She looks like she’s had something done to her jawline. Her original jaw was slightly wider, and now it looks like it’s narrower. Which – how the heck do they even whittle down your jaw (which is bone)? It even sounds terrible.
One thing I always wonder about people who have excessive plastic surgeries – some surgeon is doing all this stuff. Is there no screening process to try to figure out if somebody maybe has a problem (like Chloe)? She has clearly had a sizable amount of work done, so one would have to wonder about who is doing all this stuff on her.
I think at a certain point the medical association needs to get involved with this and set more stringent guidelines.
There is no way Heidi Montag, that Ken Doll guy, or this girl, should have been allowed to get all the surgical work done that they did.
She has expressly admitted to body dysmorphia. I don’t think that anyone suffering from that should be allowed to alter their body without some sort of vetting process. I’m not sure how that would work without further putting restrictions on what women are allowed to do with their bodies, but there needs to be a safety net for those who are unwell.
Completely agree with you, Detrius. Maybe you have to see a counselor, who then has to sign off before you can get the surgery? It’s similar to a couple having to see a marriage counselor before getting a marriage license. I don’t think that’s too restrictive.
I guess one could argue that a person with that illness is going to alter themselves whether a doctor approves or not – that maybe its better to at least do it in a sterile, safe environment with a professional, as opposed to some untrained quack. But that still doesn’t address the illness. And people talk about “doing what you want with your own body” but we place plenty of restrictions on bodily autonomy already, so I’m not sure why this can’t be regulated as such.
I guess the difficulty is, it’s pretty hard to know where to draw the line, given that by definition all cosmetic surgery is unnecessary. The majority of people who have work done are doing it because they feel insecure about some aspect of their appearance, how do you define the point at which that becomes unhealthy?
It’s elective. As long as what they’re doing is done safely, it’s the person’s choice whether or not it’s a good idea or they’ll regret it in the long run.
@Shambles, I think plastic surgery is already supposed to be vetted by the doctor in a psychological sense, but I think when you have one person who is making cash off of that determination, you are introducing too much bias.
Maybe even, one surgery is fine without outside intervention, but once you hit three major surgeries (as defined as needing anaesthetic, or cost, or recovery time), you are required to get psychological evaluation? I’m not sure.
I definitely think marriage counselling should be mandatory before handing out a license.
@Sam, yeah, at a certain point it becomes harm reduction. Like handing out clean needles to addicts. At least with fewer barriers you get fewer people injecting themselves with cement in someone’s basement. The line between causing more harm than good, and what is ethically viable would need to be studied more.
@TrixC, I think there is a branch of plastic surgery that is medically necessary. We just think of plastic surgeons as fixing noses, making big boobs, but they reduce breasts on women who’s breasts are causing health issues; make ears for babies who are born without them; give women with mastectomies evenness if they want it; help burn victims recover a semblance of their previous looks. that tends to be such a small part of it though.
As you said, it is a very thin line between what is considered ‘healthy’ vs what is ‘unhealthy’. I think with extreme examples we can all make easy judgement calls, but once it gets to the grey area everything falls apart.
We can definitely say Chloe has gone too far, but what about a woman who just wants double J implants? A man who wants pec implants, calf implants a nose job and a chin lift? What about the reformed bulimic who wants lipo? The girl who wants to be re-virginized? The mom who wants a PP.
Plastic surgery is such complicated issue because it rolls consent and agency, self-image, cultural beauty norms, and mental health all into one package. The advent of more effective non-surgical methods will probably expand this conversation as well.
@detritus of course you’re right, that’s why I used the term ‘cosmetic surgery’ (i.e surgery done for purely aesthetic reasons) and not ‘plastic surgery’, which as you say may be done for medical as well as aesthetic reasons. And yes, the examples you give are exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of – in my view breast implants over a certain size look grotesque and I can’t understand why anyone would want them, but it’s their choice.
@TrixC, I have to remind myself of it, the good stuff is so rarely talked about. I hope it didn’t come across as a rebuttal. I find so much surgery to be unhealthy, but that’s by my definition, not a medically valid one.
I have an even harder time with choices that are obviously made to attract the male gaze. I know surgeons will refuse to do implants over a certain size for the most part. When I read up on women getting these large implants there was a lot of doctor shopping and increasing size post surgery.
@ Bridget, I really like the idea, but there are so many ways we already restrict bodily autonomy for a persons ‘good’ already.
We restrict ingesting or otherwise consuming certain drugs, consistently we tell women when and what type of abortion is allowable, you have basically no bodily autonomy before 18 in most places. This is because we’ve deemed certain things too dangerous, or certain people not fully capable of making decisions regarding their autonomy.
People with body dysmorphia can ask for very strange things. There are cases where people believe limbs do not belong to them, and need to be removed. If we were fully allowing autonomy a doctor would then just perform an amputation.
Doctors are pledged to ‘do no harm’. At a certain point, regardless of their political leanings, you are doing harm. There is a reason mentally ill people are not allowed to do certain things. It would definitely be challenging to come up with a definition that’s safe for everyone.
She was so cute. She obviously thought that her value was only in her looks.
Marijuana farm FTW. Go, girl.
It’s very telling that these daughters of 70s-80s superstars now have such extreme issues with body image.
She almost had to go public to explain the obvious. It looks like it would be difficult to close her eyes, with that deer in the headlight stare. She and others like her (pick a Kardashian/Jenner) either hate themselves or are so narcissistic they can’t have enough surgery to make them perfect. Not blaming her mother, but wondering where she was when Chloe was struggling with anorexia as a teen. Olivia’s skin is taut and lineless for an older women, so she may have been the inspiration for the miracles of plastic surgery, sigh. Hope she doesn’t jog, or those double D’s are going to knock her out. Also hope she’s done, but in all likelihood she’s not. #joanriversmichaeljacksoncourtneycoxetcetcetc
She was very pretty in 2002. So sad that she has gone to extremes.
Agreed. She looked best as her (mostly?) natural self. It’s a shame she couldn’t see it herself. I’m not against minor tweaks here & there, but the extremes that some people go to in order to be “perfect” is heartbreaking.
Body dysmorphia is a painful, damaging, shame-filled, self-hating disorder. I don’t even think I am adequately explaining how severely and deeply this affects your sense of self. It’!s a form of self-annihilation. It shares some similarity with eating disorders.
An ethical plastic surgeon would not perform these procedures. They would refer the patient to a therapist. I can find sources but don’t want to lose my comments. Btw her jaw was shaved down. Transgender women may undergo facial feminization surgery.
She needs/needed a great deal of therapy to deal with this; to stabilize. As with eating disorders and self-harming it is addictive. With the former two you possibly can enter a form of recovery. However you can always relapse. Endorphins are released in the process which make it “feel good”.
Where the hell were Olivia Newton-John and her father, Matt Lattanzi? How did they not see this? What is wrong with them that they didn’t see the immense psychological pain she’s in? Without extensive therapy this won’t end well. I hope her parents wake up; get her the help Chloe desperately needs.
Yes and where would she have gotten $$$ to pay for the surgery? That money would have been better spent on a good shrink.
Very sad. This is clearly a pathological situation, and the surgeons are taking advantage of it. They’re no better than drug dealers selling crack to an addict.
She’s been getting her surgeries since like…the mid 2000s so…I hope her feelings aren’t sincere. Cuz if she’s an addict it could just be a ploy for more surgeries…*corrective, you know? 😛 Still more surgeries.
She looks mentally ill, and I don’t mean when she she speaks, it’s in her look. No way it’s only her poor messed up head, her environment surely is sickly.
i think along with the body dysmorphia she might have an addiction to pain killers. with all of her surgeries she has been so extremely dosed frequently.
another reason why to try and limit (or avoid) so many elective surgeries.
i knew an addict that started out doping to “maintain” her (severely under) weight. when that wasn’t tenable (stealing and forging) she started having procedures just to keep those pain killer scripts flowing. get the procedure, max out the scripts, go to another dr and complain about “complications” and residual pain and get the second (3rd and 4th) dr writing out more scripts. when that ends just start the cycle over. nose jobs and multiple sets of breasts. throw in some “accidents” (breaks sprains etc) and it goes on and on.
seems like an expensive way to support your habit but if you have the money and you are addicted there is really nothing to stop you.
it is sad.
She LOOKS ridiculous and mutilated. Her boobs are on her collarbone. I hope she finds real perspective on herself at some point, but I don’t think she’s there yet.
She reminds me of Courtney Stodden in the last picture.
What I want to know is what did she do with her eyes because they look different than her pre surgery days. Such a shame she looked good pre surgery.
Don’t we all pose like that with our Moms?
I feel for her if she suffered from body dysmorphia. It certainly couldn’t have helped a young girl’s self image to have two extremely attractive parents as she does.