There are opportunities that sometimes arise and turn out to be career-defining. Jennifer Gray lived it. The 62-year-old American actress publishes her memoirs in which she looks back on her journey, on the immense impact of dirty dancing on his professional life and on the ephemeral aspect of his appearances in the cinema. Of “baby” the best known in the world in 1987 to almost total anonymity, there is only one step that Jennifer Gray has taken without knowing it.
His physique has always been a problem for his mother. His nose, especially. From a very young age, Jennifer Gray’s mother hammered at her that the shape of her nose must surely be a brake when she went to castings: “She said, ‘You know what? It’s hard to find roles for you. Make it easier for them… When I was a child, I was completely against rhinoplastyshe confided to the site People. My parents did, but that was the 1950s (…) You couldn’t be gay. You couldn’t be Jewish. You couldn’t look like a Jew.“
This star who didn’t even recognize her
Still, Jennifer Gray gave in to the call for cosmetic surgery and soon realized she shouldn’t have: “I became invisible overnight. In the eyes of people, I was no longer myself.“The fact that Michael Douglas didn’t even recognize her on a red carpet broke her heart. It was then that she made the connection between the operation and the absence of proposals in the cinema: “I spent so much energy wondering what I had done wrong, why I had been banished from the realm. But in fact it was a lie. I shot myself in the foot all by myself“says the ex-wife of Clark Gregg. Naturally, Jennifer Gray resented her mother who pushed her to have cosmetic surgery: “The weirdest thing is that I had resisted all my life, and I was so pissed off at my mother for advising me to have this operation.” Yes she tried to regain her former appearance, the actress never succeeded…