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Bloggers everywhere were buzzing about this photo of Joan Van Ark, saying how she had allegedly gone under the knife numerous times and how different she looks now. We are not ones to judge women who go for plastic surgery (several Moms in the office have had confidence-boosting "work" done), but we were curious about people who seem obsessed with plastic surgery, so we talked to Victoria Pitts-Taylor, associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture about this phenomenon. Q: Why do some celebrities become obsessed with plastic surgery? A: It's not surprising that celebrities seem to get so much cosmetic surgery. The body has become a zone of perfectibility for all of us, and no more so than for celebrities, especially women, whose bodies are a significant part of their commerical appeal. Moreover, celebrity culture is very unforgiving, and so female celebrities who do not "keep up" with their appearance, so to speak, are fodder for tabloid finger-wagging. (How many tabloid covers have revealed which celebrity women have cellulite, and who is getting fat?) We have ever-new standards of beauty and youth to reach, and there is a cultural imperative for us to keep looking young and "beautiful." This is especially true for public figures, but they are now setting the standards for the rest of us, too.