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Celebs Make 'Baby Fat' Chic

Madonna is the poster girl for newest youth-restoring procedures

By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser User

Posted Aug 4, 2008 12:51 PM CDT

(Newser) – Following the lead of Madonna and Demi Moore, women in their 50s and 60s are trading the tight pull of traditional facelifts for techniques that push out the face to resemble the baby fat plumpness of teenage definition, reports New York. The magazine dubs the sought-after look the “New New Face.”

Strong architectural nose (Angelina Jolie), Mount Rushmore cheeks (Madonna), angular jawline (Demi Moore), and smoothed forehead (Naomi Campbell) all add to the plump youthfulness of the New New Face. Meanwhile, overinflated Meg Ryan and the once-desirable ski-jump nose now consitute the “Old New Face.”

Madonna represents the archetypal New New Face, according to a New York magazine profile of the procedures and baby-fat looks aging women are going for today.
Madonna represents the archetypal "New New Face," according to a New York magazine profile of the procedures and baby-fat looks aging women are going for today.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Madonna may not admit to having work done on her face but her heart-shape, high cheeks and flat forehead are the tell-tale signs.
Madonna may not admit to having work done on her face but her heart-shape, high cheeks and flat forehead are the tell-tale signs.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
Demi Moore looks a lit different from when she starred in Ghost but the anti-aging plastic surgery procedures she has undergone at least preserve some semblance of youth and definition, reports New York magazine.
Demi Moore looks a lit different from when she starred in "Ghost" but the anti-aging plastic surgery procedures she has undergone at least preserve some semblance of youth and definition, reports New...   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Angelina Jolie's strong nose is the New New Nose unlike the ski-slope noses of the 1960s and '70s.
Angelina Jolie's strong nose is the New New Nose unlike the ski-slope noses of the 1960s and '70s.   (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FILE)
Meg Ryan's over-injection, too-much-filler look is the old anti-aging procedures that have since been replaced by subtler youth-preserving procedures.
Meg Ryan's over-injection, too-much-filler look is the old anti-aging procedures that have since been replaced by subtler youth-preserving procedures.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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The idea of maintaining, preserving, and restoring feels less like cheating. The New New Face promises to reclaim something that was lost. But does it? - Jonathan Van Meter, New York Mag

When people age...fat pads start falling, the cheeks start dripping down...losing volume in the upper face...You lose what we call the ‘youthful convexities’ of the face. - Dr. Brandt, "Madonna's dermatologist"

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