How is Heidi Montag Like Jesus?
LatestHeidi Montag has had been broadcast living her daily life on television for several years, photographed innumerable times by celebrity gossip rags, and mocked repeatedly for her attempt at pop music stardom. Now, some of her more extreme fameballing is garnering her comparisons to another famous person suspected of having a beard — Jesus Christ himself.
The Washington Post’s Gayle Trotter argues that plastic surgery is the modern day equivalent of bodily mortification undergone by ascetics in the Middle Ages, or, for those more well versed in literature available in airports than the history of Christianity, that creepy albino guy from The DaVinci Code. The ascetics believed in “bodily moritifcation” in order to emulate Jesus’s suffering before he was crucified. And Heidi Montag, most recently famous for receiving 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day and emerging looking like Bad Decision Barbie, is perhaps the most devout of the modern-day ascetics who worship at the altar of fame. Trotter writes,