Jennifer Grey: from succeeding in Dirty Dancing to feeling invisible after changing her nose

One of the emblematic films of the 80s is undoubtedly Dirty Dancing, which in Mexico and other Latin American countries was titled Hot Dance, and achieved remarkable acceptance amid the controversy that suggested the name and plot of the film that starred actress Jennifer Grey in 1987 alongside the late Patrick Swayze.

In the classic, Jennifer played “Frances Baby Houseman”, a teenager who fell in front of her dance teacher, “Johnny Castle”, played by the fellow actor starring in Ghost: The Shadow of Love.

In the film, Jennifer attracted attention for her development and also for her particular physique, but after the success of Dirty Dancing, the actress decided to undergo several rhinoplasties, nasal aesthetic operations in order to give her a look that best fits industry standards.

Far from helping her, the change of the actress meant that Hollywood made her invisible and stopped offering her roles and auditions, which caused her scant appearance on the screen.

This was revealed by the actress to People magazine, in the midst of the promotion of her next memoir book Out of the Corner, to be published on May 3, where she will relate what she lived through those years when she went from commercial success to almost anonymity.

However, today's 62-year-old actress does not hold the film industry responsible, but rather reflects that she was the culprit for undergoing plastic surgeries, which were suggested to her at a very young age by her mother, fellow actress Jo Wilder.

“I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was banished from the kingdom. It's a lie. “I banished myself,” he said to the media outlet.

Grey recalls a specific occasion in those years, after her second rhinoplasty, when her colleague Michael Douglas did not recognize her at the premiere of a film.

“That was the first time I showed myself in public,” he recalled. “And it became 'the thing', the idea of being completely invisible from one day to the next. In the eyes of the world it was no longer me.”

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