Who Is That? These Celebrities Are Almost Unrecognizable After Dramatically Changing Their Appearances

Jennifer Grey Looks Different Than Her Dirty Dancing Days

Photo credits: Dirty Dancing & Steve Granitz / Wire Image / Getty Images

Jennifer Grey’s nose job was the rhinoplasty that echoed around the world. It didn’t make sense on so many levels – not that she had the procedure but what it did to her career. When Grey rose to fame at the age of 27 after starring in Dirty Dancing, her nose was her defining feature. It was far from perfect and lacked that petite Hollywood upturn (a huge nose trend in the 1980s). It was unique, and it was her.

Then, Grey decided to get a nose job. By all accounts, her nose looks absolutely flawless, but her career faltered. “I went into the ­operating room a ­celebrity and came out anonymous,” she said. “It was the nose job from hell. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody ­recognizes because of a nose job.” It just goes to show you, perfect doesn’t always pay.

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