Pre-pubescent girls aren't the only ones fawning over Justin Bieber. Over the past five years, a 33-year-old man has spent a small fortune trying to look like the Canadian idol.
Sad but true. According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, LA songwriter Toby Sheldon's affair with plastic surgery started with an insecurity due to his thinning hair. Modelling his hairline on Bieber's, Sheldon underwent three transplants, totalling $21,000, to get his bangs back.
By then his obsession was entrenched, much like these living dolls. Not content to stop there, Sheldon sought Bieber's youthful look for himself.
"By using Justin’s charming baby face as my inspiration," he said. "I’ve been able to restructure my entire look to maintain a much more youthful appearance through plastic surgery."
Though Sheldon admits he's not a fan of Bieber's music per se, he does covet the celeb's "flawless" face. One procedure led to another—from lip and face fillers, to Botox and Aquamid injections in his forehead and temples, liposuction on his chin, and eye surgery to lift his eyelids. The latest op was a "three-part smile surgery," to give him his 19-year-old hero's smile. (So-called smile surgery, reportedly popular in South Korea, and is now booming in the U.S., too.)
Of course Beverly Hills surgeons were only too willing to keep working on Sheldon, who proudly was proudly carded at a liquor store. But even now, after $100,000 of surgery, he isn't content with his likeness to Bieber and is seriously considering the nose job and jaw reductions suggested by Dr. Frankenstein—I mean, his surgeon. Not like this guy, Beeb's more natural Doppelganger.
Truly pathetic or his prerogative?
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