Jennifer Gray has opened up to the public about the impact that plastic nose surgery has had on her career. The actress became known for her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 romantic film Dirty Dancing, where she starred alongside Patrick Swayze.
After the release of the film, Gray decided to have a rhinoplasty to change the look of her nose. According to the actress, this happened at the suggestion of her mother, who believed that the operation would make it easier for cast leaders to think about her for other roles.
However, after she underwent nose surgery for the second time in the early 1990s, it turned out that her face looked so different that her colleague, Michael Douglas, failed to recognize her at a premiere.
"It was the first time I went out in public," she recalls in a recent interview with PEOPLE magazine. "And it was a big problem, the idea of ??being completely invisible, overnight. In the eyes of the world, I was no longer me. "
Gray's memoir, Out of the Corner, will be published in May. There she reveals further details about the effect that performing the nose intervention had on her life. In the book, she recalls wondering why she had difficulty finding a lucrative job in Hollywood.
"I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was expelled from the kingdom. This is a lie. "I expelled myself," she wrote.
Regarding the consequences of nose surgery, Gray continues:
"Overnight I lost my identity and my career."
In recent years, the actress and ballerina has appeared on television programs such as Gray's Anatomy and Dollface. She also won her 11th season of Dancing With the Stars in 2010.
