DC ExtraTime: An Experience in Getting A Nose Job

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Earlier past year, the world's most popular platform for offering binge-worthy goodies, Netflix, announced its latest high-profile steal. With the promise of a nine-figure paycheck, it successfully persuaded top TV producer Ryan Murphy from his longtime perch at 20th Century Fox to come over to a streaming platform that's helped change everyone's viewing habits. He's the behind-the-scenes impresario behind FX's American Horror Story whose latest season Apocalypse debuted this week, spinoff American Crime Story including its acclaimed portrayal of the O.J. Simpson trial, and FOX's first entry into owning the musical drama genre, Glee.

   Murphy's first high-profile TV hit was the medical drama Nip/Tuck, which ran for six seasons and earned 45 award nominations. Over 100 episodes, it followed a leading plastic surgery center based first in Miami and then in Los Angeles, and offered a glimpse into the lives - both in & outside the operating room - of founders & doctors Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, played by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon. As FX began embracing HBO-style premium content, Nip/Tuck featured graphic, partial-depictions of plastic surgeries given to patients, and featured reality-style storytelling of arcs being told in multiple episodes - unique in this subgenre.

There is a member of the casts of both The Challenge Final Reckoning and this spring's U.S. version of Ex On The Beach who knows what it's like to go through having plastic surgery themselves: Angela Babicz. Just after she came home from filming her season of now-erstwhile Oxygen series Bad Girls Club --  Twisted Sisters (its last before the channel's shift to crime), she looked in the mirror and thought to herself that her nose didn't feel right. Angela felt insecure about it, and it was magnified much more when she saw herself and her side profile on television... and in HD.

   In having constant nightmares about her nose and while her season was on TV, she decided to make a change. And after doing plenty of research, the surgery she chose was one that's known to most as a nose job, but to those who work in this field, it is known professionally as "Rhinoplasty." While traditional plastic surgeons and those who work on jaws and faces are capable to work on noses, those who specialize in working on them, ears and throats are known as otolaryngologists, and those who check out Wikipedia's article on this subject have an idea of what this grueling process is about.
   Its description of "Rhinoplasty" reads: "...a plastic surgery procedure for correcting and reconstructing the form, restoring the functions, and aesthetically enhancing the nose by resolving nasal trauma, congenital defect, respiratory impediment, or a failed primary rhinoplasty. Most patients ask to remove a bump, narrow nostril width, change the angle between the nose and the mouth, as well as correct injuries, birth defects, or other problems that affect breathing, such as deviated nasal septum or a sinus condition."

A year after going through this life-altering journey, Angela shared on YouTube in spring 2017 an in-depth video on her experience of going through rhinoplasty... one that saw her spend the summer of 2016 and the ensuing months afterward going through a traumatizing process that made her stronger. As she cautions at the outset, a Heads-Up that the photos shown in Angela's video embedded below, as well as certain aspects of the surgical process, may be graphic to some readers.

For those interested in the show that eventually brought her to The Challenge and to a respectable showing with partner, EOTB original and Vanderpump Rules alum Faith Stowers, Angela got to share her side in her relationships with Tor'i Brooks and Derrick H. just after the finale of Ex On The Beach earlier this summer. She also joined her closest ally in the Hawaiian abode, Victoria, for a two-part Q&A... all three videos are also embedded below and, of course, there's tea aplenty.

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