Claudia Doumit loves her nose, but that wasn’t always the case. For a long time, many people talked in her ear about her nose, giving her unwanted opinions about what her nose should look like if it got bigger.
This actor, because boys, recently opened up about how Hollywood pressured her to get plastic surgery. She ultimately dismissed the idea but explained how it took time and effort to overcome it.
At Comic-Con 2024, Doumit said she was encouraged to get a nose job when she was trying to book starring roles or pretty innocent roles. “This has been feeding me for many, many years,” she said.
When she was younger, Doumit had planned to have some touch-ups on her face. But after her first break, her second job and the job after that, she didn’t have surgery. “I’ve been making appointments for work, but I haven’t had a nose job,” she said. Taking a step back, she realized that the pressure others were putting on her didn’t reflect reality.
“One day I realized that I was getting jobs based on how I looked,” she said to an applauding audience. The idealization of smaller noses may be part of a larger narrative in Hollywood promoting Western beauty standards, which often reflect racist and sexist norms.
Proud of her features, Doumit dismissed the agents’ feedback and justified their comments as outdated. “It’s a beautiful half-Lebanese, half-Italian nose. It’s very powerful,” she said, adding that she would like to see “more women with big noses on screen. So go ahead, baby.”
Whether someone chooses to have surgery on their face is a personal choice, although Hollywood still has a free hand in its judgment, especially when it comes to women. In fact, Dumit boys Co-star Erin Moriarty briefly quit social media after commenting that she might get the job done.
After conservative media figure Megyn Kelly claimed Moriarty had plastic surgery, the actor said the claim was “extremely false” and expressed her dismay at the comments about her face. “This breaks my heart. You broke my heart. You have lost the privileges of this account,” Moriarty said.
When it comes to plastic surgery, it’s a case of “damned if you do it” or “damned if you don’t”, but some of the taboos surrounding the procedure seem to have softened somewhat lately.
In Dumit’s words, it’s simple. “I’m doing what I love, and I’m doing it on my terms,” she said. “It’s not a traditional narrative. It’s not what a lot of people think of as beautiful, but I think it’s beautiful.
