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Body horror in The Substance18 Images In her thought-provoking book Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object, Philippa Snow observes that “there's something self-abnegating in regards to the desire to be a really superstar, requiring a saint-like level of devotion to non-public transformation, sometimes extending to mutilation and self-sacrifice”. The “mutilation” that Snow is explicitly referring to is cosmetic surgery, and while we don’t have the statistics to showcase the variety of celebrities who've resorted to cosmetic surgery, we do know that various them get work done – from the celebrities who've different faces and hairlines every few months, to the incontrovertible fact that increasingly more of them have been transparent about their cosmetic work over the previous few...