For the rest of us, though, changing our "bad teeth" isn't necessarily out of reach-it's expensive, sure, but depending on what you get done, not unthinkably so. I'd go on, but you get the point.īut that's Hollywood, where people make their living off their looks, even if those looks fall outside of mainstream attractiveness. And while the same names crop up over and over again on lists of "bad celebrity teeth," when you look at the list of celebrities who once had "bad teeth" but got them fixed, it's all over the place: Tom Cruise! Miley Cyrus! The Beckhams, David Bowie, Lindsay Lohan, Zac Efron, Michael Douglas, Celine Dion, Chris Rock, Nic Cage. What's more surprising is that anyone in the public eye has the teeth nature gave them. Cosmetic dentistry has skyrocketed in recent years among the hoi polloi, let alone people who make their living in part from their faces. Will Ferrell, Steve Buscemi, Seal, Morgan Freeman, Ricky Gervais-all successful (though none known for their good looks), all with teeth in worse shape than any of the female celebrities with supposedly "bad teeth" out there. It's hardly a surprise that appearance standards are higher for women in this regard, given that they're higher in pretty much every regard. Sure, alongside these gap-toothed women, various slideshows cite Jewel (snaggletooth!) and Kirsten Dunst (baby teeth!), but assuming that the two of them even qualify as having "bad teeth," are there any other female celebrities with significant orthodontic problems? (Amy Winehouse certainly did, but her dental condition was linked to the drug addiction that killed her sadly, the effect was part of her image.) Despite showing up repeatedly on collections of "celebrities with bad teeth," there's nothing wrong with these women's teeth, except that they have a gap up front, a far cry from Ferrell's crooked, yellowing bottom choppers. A gap-toothed smile is also considered attractive in some parts of Africa, and in 1987 Les Blank made a short documentary called Gap-Toothed Women, which is about…gap-toothed women. Given the morals of the time, lustful was hardly synonymous with sexy-as-attractive, but it's on pace with sexy-as…sexual, I suppose. But it turns out I'm not progressive here so much as I'm regressive-back to the Middle Ages, when women with gapped teeth were seen as lustful. And about those gap teeth: I'd always thought they were sexy, and I'd privately credited this to my occasionally offbeat taste (I have a thing for adults with scars from teen acne, for example).
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