Heidi Montag

Heidi Montag hosts a pool party at Wet Republic on June 18, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Heidi Montag blames drastic plastic surgery on late doctor: ‘I should have been way more informed’

Heidi Montag might’ve recently taken responsibility for her financial troubles, but she’s blaming her drastic plastic surgery on someone else: the late Dr. Frank Ryan.

In an “Primetime” interview that aired Wednesday, the reality star said her infamous 10 procedures (in one day!) last year came after Ryan allegedly minimized the significance of the changes.

Montag, acknowledging that she did not feel “prepared” for the surgeries, said, “But how can you know when your doctor’s saying, ‘It’s just a little of this, it’s just a little of that’? You know, it really becomes a lot.”

“I definitely think I should have been way more informed. I think that doctors should really walk you through all aspects of it, not just the glamorous side of it,” the 24-year-old told ABC News’ Cynthia McFadden. “Doctors, it’s like they’re selling you cookies or something.”

After Ryan’s death following a car accident in August, Montag said she was “devastated” and called him “the most amazing person I have ever known.”

And while the former “Hills” star seems to have changed her tune, she also blamed her new-found fame and the media for making her feel insecure.

“It really got to me what people would say about me, and saying I had a horse face, and a Jay Leno chin,” Montag explained, “just awful, really mean things about me. … I kind of started believing it.”

But Montag didn’t let herself completely off the hook, either.

“I shouldn’t have talked about it because it just opens it up for everyone,” she admitted, adding, “All these celebrities have different faces. Nobody calls them out because they don’t talk about it.”

And, said Montag, her painful recuperation following the surgeries contributed to the demise of her marriage to Spencer Pratt.

“He didn’t sign up to be the nurse to his 23-year-old wife at the time, day and night,” she said, though the couple recently re-wed.

Now the reality star says she won’t be getting any more surgery.

“I think I’m fine the way I am,” she said.

Heidi Montag`s mum costs $5000 for appearances

Heidi Montag’s mother Darlene Egelhoff now charges $5000 for speaking engagements.

According to RadarOnline.com, on Darlene’s new website which highlights her blog, she says she also needs travel and hotel arrangements to be paid for, although church groups can book her for nothing.

Montag’s estranged mother is happy to cover topics including body image, creating a separate identity from your children and positivity.

Egelhoff and Heidi, 24, haven’t spoken to each other for around one year, she writes on her blog.

Darlene could be charging the amount because she recently revealed she is having money problems due to tough economic times.

 

 

 

Heidi Montag attends a Halloween party

Heidi Montag attends a Halloween party at PURE Nightclub hosted by Heidi Montag on October 30, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

People: Pratt and Montag Get an Offer They Can’t Refuse

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been offered a job by betting website Youwager.com, TMZ.com reported. The reunited couple would purportedly receive $100,000 to “manage the odds and lines surrounding the entertainment sector — ranging from celebrity news and pop culture to music and movies,” the company said. But they would have to move to Costa Rica. Montag and Pratt recently declared themselves to be in dire straits financially and said they are living in Pratt’s father’s guesthouse.

Mother of Heidi Montag Affirms Decision to Work as a Maid

The estranged mother of Heidi Montag, Darlene Egelhoff confirmed that she indeed worked as a maid because of the recession that hit the economy of most countries worldwide.

In a revealing interview on Inside Edition, Egeloff has validated the existence of a 21 year old restaurant business. However, the restaurant she and her husband owned had to close because of the drastic change in the economy. Accordingly, they were already having problems paying the bills. Ultimately, the only job she could get in Colorado was to clean houses.

Egelhoff, on her part has acknowledged that it was uncomfortable when a client recognizes that she is a mother of a celebrity. She has also confirmed that she has not talked to her daughter in almost nine months.

Heidi Montag is recently known for her cameo appearance in Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It. She and her husband, Spencer Pratt have acknowledged on Life and Sytle magazine that their finances are in great disarray.

 

Montag’s mother working as a maid

Darlene Egelhoff, the mother of U.S. reality television personality Heidi Montag, says the recession has forced her to work as a maid.

Egelhoff told TV’s “Inside Edition” she and her husband owned a restaurant for 21 years, but had to close it because of the economy. She said they have been struggling to pay their bills since and the only job she could find in Crested Butte, Colo., was cleaning houses.

The celebrity mom admitted it has been awkward when a client recognizes her.

“That’s been very humbling for me and I very much appreciate that experience because I don’t ever want to get full of myself and think I’m too good to do anything,” Egelhoff said.

She also tearfully revealed she has not spoken to Montag in nearly nine months and doesn’t think her daughter knows what she has been going through.

The mother and daughter became estranged after Egelhoff appeared on an episode of “The Hills” and showed her disappointment in Montag’s decision to undergo 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day.

Egelhoff said she is so desperate to communicate with Montag she started a blog called “Metamorphosis of a Mother” hoping Montag will read it, “Inside Edition” said Thursday.

Heidi Montag Doc’s Fatal Crash Not Due to Texting

It wasn’t texting after all that caused the fatal car crash of Heidi Montag’s plastic surgeon.

Although there was widespread speculation that Dr. Frank Ryan, who famously performed a marathon 10-operation makeover on Montag, had been texting when he crashed in August, authorities in alibu say there is no evidence to support that.

“His Jeep drifted to the right, ran off the roadway, and overturned down a rocky embankment,” says a press release issued Wednesday by the California Highway Patrol. “There was no evidence of any other contributing factors in the cause of this collision.”

Ryan was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before he wrecked his Jeep on the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, his ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake told People.

Ryan, 50, whose other clients included Gene Simmons, Vince Neil, Adrianne Curry and Shauna Sand, was killed when his Jeep went off the side of the road. He suffered major head injuries and died at the scene. Just before the accident, Ryan had been hiking near Malibu with his Border Collie, Jill, and shared a photo on Twitter.

“After 25 years of driving by, I finally hiked to the top of the giant sand dune on the pch west of malibu,” he wrote. “Much harder than it looks! Whew!”

 

Audrina Patridge won’t go under knife like Heidi Montag

AUDRINA Patridge insists she won’t be following in the footsteps of her former The Hills costar Heidi Montag.

Patridge, who’s taking part in the current season of Dancing With the Stars, doesn’t plan on changing her looks with surgery.

“Lots of people in Los Angeles get surgery and it’s funny because they all start looking the same,” the 25-year-old said.

“It’s important to have your own look and keep what you’re born with, it’s not something I’m going to do any time soon.”

Audrina recently revealed she wants to meet Johnny Depp.

“It would be a dream to meet Johnny Depp,” she said.

Heidi Montag and the Booby-Pop

The saddest thing about living in LA is how quickly you become immune to the freakshow parading around Robertson, encapsulated on The Hills, immortalized in weekly glossies. I’ll defend it when I get back to the UK. “No, not everyone’s had plastic surgery,” “It’s really quite a normal place to live,” “of course people have a sense of humor,” “there are many angelenos who aren’t obsessed with fame.” But cliches become so for a reason, and after 24 hours back home, I realize that it is possible to have a conversation with someone whose face moves when you talk to them, and that this same conversation might exclude movies, celebrities, television, awards ceremonies, wealth or plastic surgery. And then you kind of think to yourself, ‘Oh fuck.’

And it’s about this time — when you’re too small for European sizes, and the fact you’ve had juvederm and botox is met with horrified silence at the dinner table, and it’s deemed a clinical illness that you do yoga five times a week and you don’t drink and your ex is a millionaire former crack addict — that you realize there is actually something quite wrong with LA, and while we’re all sniggering at it, regarding ourselves immune, we’ve caught the same damn disease as everyone else in this tinpot tinseltown.

And then along comes Heidi Montag and you feel normal again.

After enduring near death to emerge as a broken person with ridiculous water-melons on her chest and a nose that stays on purely by self-will and scotch tape, Heidi still finds time to frolic alone in the Costa-Rican surf, feigning the open-mouthed booby-pop for the cameras, and revealing to us, pitifully, how she wants to reverse her surgical procedures, but can’t, because her plastic surgeon fell off the PCH whilst texting and accidentally killed himself. Dr. Ryan is the only person Heidi trusts, she says. Heidi was his “best, most cautious patient” (a euphemism if ever there was one). Dr. Ryan warned Heidi not to go too big, but she ignored his advice, to her regret.

There’s something I don’t get about this whole scenario, and it’s nothing to do, specifically, with Dr. Ryan, as I’m not into picking on the deceased. But it’s certainly something that Heidi’s predicament aptly demonstrates. Growing up as the daughter of a doctor, I’m aware of the Hippocratic oath, malpractice, etc. Medical Malpractice is defined, simply as a “treatment that doesn’t meet acceptable medical standards, which causes injury to the patient.”

The amount of women, like Heidi, I see in Los Angeles walking around like blow up dolls, victims to the horrific mental disorder of body dysmorphia — is huge. Body dysmorphia is as much as a disease as anorexia, as bulimia, as over-eating, as alcoholism, drug addiction. These are mental disorders which manifest themselves in physical self-harm.

I fail to see how embarking on eleven different surgeries in one day, nearly dying from too much Demerol, and emerging, afterwards, with a nose which looks perfect but could drop off at any second, and boobs which prevent you from sleeping, moving and exercising — how can this not be defined as causing massive injury to the patient?

With alcoholism, a doctor wouldn’t give an alcoholic booze, unless it’s to alleviate DT’s and avoid death. Similarly, an anorexic wouldn’t be kept on a lettuce diet at the hospital, a bulimic would not be prescribed laxatives or be induced to vomiting, a heroin addict would not be given cash to go and pick up some dope on skid row… so why, if Heidi Montag and countless other women suffering extreme body dysmorphia — a disease which makes them unable to distinguish between positive procedures which might enhance their natural beauty, and procedures which may kill them and render them fragile to the point of breakability — why are these women allowed to undertake these procedures without their surgeons suffering punitive action?

If Dr. Ryan had cared so goddamn much about Heidi, he wouldn’t have warned her DDD was too big — he would have flat-out refused to have given her the operation. Like so much of the unregulated US healthcare system, damage to the patient isn’t a priority. Of course a plastic surgeon wouldn’t refuse a Hollywood starlet, because he wants the cash and he wants the exposure. He’s running a business. Privately, he may care she’s doing damage to herself — but he doesn’t care enough to stop.

A close friend of mine is a plastic surgeon. I asked her — honestly — if I need any surgical procedures. She looked at me and said, flat out “No. You’re too young for Botox. Maybe a little juvederm. But give it a few years.” With her professional opinion in mind, I visited five other plastic surgeon in the LA area — all of them told me Botox was their most popular procedure, and they suggested I get 400 dollars worth as a “precautionary measure.”

My experience with plastic surgeons is confined solely to those LA board-certified surgeons I called up, and the horror stories of people like Heidi, sad figures frolicking in their obscene, broken bodies for the perusal of the paps. But something to me seems very wrong with this picture.

I remember my father, a GP, arguing with patients who thought they knew better than he did. They thought they knew what self-diagnosed diseases they had, what treatment they needed. My Dad never caved in and gave someone chemo for a small cyst, addictive prescription drugs which weren’t necessary. Similarly, shouldn’t plastic surgeons — possessed with those Deus-like powers of transformation — be taught how to say ‘no’ to a mad, insistent starlet who doesn’t need DDD’s and a third nose job, but would probably instead benefit from weekly yoga, intensive therapy, and a spell out of the spotlight?