Lights, camera, filter! In a world where cameras have seemingly replaced mirrors, and social media has replaced IRL interaction, hyperrealistic AI-driven filters have redefined how stars see themselves and, in turn, the requests they’re making to Hollywood dermatologists and plastic surgeons. With omnipresent, unforgiving high-def lenses amplifying imperceptible flaws, dysmorphia-inducing technology is driving many Hollywood faces in hot pursuit of re-creating their AI selfie IRL, complete with unblemished skin and borderline cartoonish facial proportions. The truth is, what they’re asking for is often not humanly possible.
“These filters mess your mind into thinking, ‘I’m only 5 percent away from looking like that filtered version of myself,’ which is not necessarily true,” says dermatologist Simon Ourian, whose clients include Lady Gaga, Kylie and Kris Jenner, Khloé and Kim Kardashian, and Megan Fox. “Sometimes you have to do a lot to get there. It’s a double-edged sword because patients think it should be achievable. But I only have a certain number of tools in my toolbox. I’ll say, ‘Maybe we can get you toward that direction, but we just don’t have the technology or the knowledge or science yet.’ ”
