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These notorious celebrities are known for taking things way to far when it comes to cosmetics. They undergo plastic surgery or they bleach their skin to appear lighter for reasons mostly unknown to us. We understand that they want to enhance their, ahem, natural beauty but when you start to look like an entirely different person, you’ve gone way too far.

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We can all identify plastic surgeries gone wrong but now it’s time to give you the best in celebrity reconstruction. While many of these famous faces haven’t gone overboard with the nipping and tucking, even the smallest dabble into cosmetic surgery earned these stunners a spot on our list. So without further adieu, we present our picks for 14 celebrities who did plastic surgery the right way.

By and large, it seems positive self-esteem is no match for the narrow-minded ideals of beauty unleashed on the American psyche 24-7. Especially with so many black celebrities going under the knife routinely. Most of these women were attractive, talented prior to plastic surgery, which suggests that the operations aren’t necessarily to become more beautiful, but more, “other.” Of course, when you’ve got the money and the excuse that everyone else is doing it, a nip here, or tuck there, hardly seems out of the question.

Here’s a recap of some of the expensive attempts to buy self esteem from a plastic surgeon: