Next Model Management Denies That Ali Lohan Has Gotten Plastic Surgery

In light of the controversy that exploded yesterday over what is ostensibly celeb little sister Ali Lohan‘s totally new face, the modeling agency that signed her has come out in denial against the rumors that Ali has undergone what appears to be a massive amount of plastic surgery (cheek implants, lip injections, and some nose and chin stuff). In a statement, a spokeswoman for Next Model Management explained:

“As a young girl who is growing up, it’s natural for her facial features to change slightly, and we see this with many of the younger models we represent. Aliana is a beautiful 17-year-old girl who is growing into her face and body, as is the norm for someone of her age. We take pastoral care of our models very seriously and encourage the models to maintain a healthy lifestyle and body shape

While we’re extremely skeptical of the validity of this statement, the only conceivable explanation for Ali undergoing such a drastic change in appearance over such a short period of time is that she lost an amount of weight so unhealthy that it radically transformed her features. Women with eating disorders often do become unrecognizable as their disease progresses to the point where they’re little more than pure bone.  How much weight, exactly, would Ali needed to have lost to alter her face in such a dramatic way? Here’s a photo of the teen from 2009 where she’s already looking pretty twig-like:

So the answer is: an incredibly unhealthy amount of weight, it seems. So, if weight loss is the case, what we’re dealing with here is a teenage girl who’s being asked to adhere to unreasonable standards of beauty in what is merely a different terrible way. Plastic surgery or eating disorder: pick your poison. (Literal poison, please!)