The original lead vocalist and front man of Guns 'n Roses, Axl Rose, was known for his boyish good looks and great head of hair. Therefore, as he begin to get older and realized that his looks were fading away with his young age, he decided to do something about it – invest in a lot of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures!
A wide variety of surgical procedures became the best friends and companions of Axl Rose as he tried to revive his looks – including Botox injections and an extensive list of facial fillers. Instead of staying within the realms of realism, however, the person responsible for performing these procedures went way over the top and turned his face into an unnatural mess that is scary to look at to this day.
Kenny Rogers is another great example of worst plastic surgery. Even though his mature, gray-haired appearance became more of a signature look for Kenny once upon a time, that quickly shifted in more of an "old man" direction – especially when he started to pay attention to just how good looking and young his competition looked within the music industry. He invested in plastic surgery and other cosmetic procedures in order to try and revive his boyish looks, but that simply did not work. It actually backfired on him, forcing him to become mocked by comedians and sketch show actors for many, many years.
Another actor that quickly rose to fame because of his good looks and youthful image was John Travolta. From his days on "Welcome Back, Kotter" to his breakthrough role in "Saturday Night Fever" and all the way up to his big-screen comeback role in "Pulp Fiction," John Travolta was able to naturally maintain his good looks for quite some time. However, as soon as he started to see those good looks slipping away, he made an appointment with a plastic surgeon to try and stop that from happening.
However, a simple facelift quickly backfired on him – especially when he had to realize the hard way that his face was pulled back way too tightly. It didn't take long for the paparazzi to realize what had been done and exploited it through taking as many pictures of his newly "altered" appearance as possible. John Travolta tried to repair his image many times since then with additional cosmetic surgeries…but it simply has not been the same at all.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is one of the most impressive physical actors of all time. Even though he is clearly aging a lot faster than any people might realize, Van Damme has been able to stay in impeccable shape. If you compare his torso and legs to almost any movie that he did decades ago, you probably will not see very much difference at all.
The fact that he can still do a upper roundhouse kick as smoothly as he did back in the early 1990s speaks volumes! However, while his body is in great shape and has withstood the tests of time, his face clearly has not. As he started to feel his own boyish good looks slipping away from him, he decided to go under the knife for a few cosmetic surgery procedures. That was exactly when he became one of the celebrity plastic surgery gone wrong stories – especially since his face was never able to recover from it. However, instead of getting him down, Van Damme decided to focus on keeping his body in impeccable shape without using any steroids or unnatural supplements.
When the average person thinks about plastic surgery disaster with female celebrities, they might think about Joan Rivers almost immediately. Well, on the male side of the same spectrum, their thoughts might immediately travel towards Mickey Rourke. In the late 80s, Mickey Rourke had a sexy bad boy image – especially when he starred alongside Kim Basinger on the big screen. However, when he decided to try his hand at professional boxing, his face took a massive beating that it could never fully recover from totally.
Therefore, when it came down to trying to recover his public image in the Hollywood spotlight Rourke tried to revive as much of his youthful looks as possible through cosmetic procedures and plastic surgeries. However, it simply did not work. Many people have compared the face of Mickey Rourke to the titular character of the old nursery rhyme, "Humpty Dumpty." Why? After his face was broken, none of the "king's horses" of plastic surgery or "king's men" of cosmetic procedures could put his face back together again.
The Bottom Line
Plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures (on paper) seem to be the perfect solution to any sort of physical aging problem. Whether you want your face to have less wrinkles or your full head of hair to be restored, you are taking a very large risk by going through with this type of procedure. This is especially the case since none of them are fully guaranteed to provide the results that you want without any risks or complications.
Yes, it is true that there are plenty of male celebrities that frequently visit the plastic surgeon or cosmetic specialist in order to have some sort of work done at some point in their lengthy careers. However, there is always a chance that when you walk into their office, you might end up walking out of their office adding your story to the long list of stories explaining plastic surgery gone wrong.