Jennifer Grey during her interview with People revealed that going under the knife to get some nose jobs was initially her mother, actress Jo Wilder‘s idea.
“I was so upset with my mother for always telling me I should do my nose. I really thought it was capitulating I really thought it meant surrendering to the enemy camp. I just thought, I’m good enough. I shouldn’t have to do this.’That’s really what I felt. I’m beautiful enough.”
She further stated that she had been hearing the suggestion from a very young age that her mom was trying to be “pragmatic” and make it easier for her to be cast in films.
“It wasn’t like, You’re not pretty, It’s like, ‘Guess what? If you don’t want to be an actor, okay. But if you wanna be an actor…'”
The father, Joel Grey, confirmed that as a kid she hates rhinoplasty, but wonders why her parents got their own nose jobs back in the 1950s.
“I understand they were assimilating. I understood that you had to change your name and you had to do certain things, and it was just normalized, right? You can’t be Jewish. You know, you can’t look Jewish. You’re just trying to fit into whatever is the group think.”
Grey, shortly after the success of her 1987 film Dirty Dancing got her first of two rhinoplasties. The second surgery was to correct an irregularity caused by the first, it later left her nose “truncated” and “dwarfed.”
“That was the first time I had gone out in public, And it became the thing, the idea of being completely invisible, from one day to the next. In the world’s eyes, I was no longer me.”
