Plastic - or cosmetic - surgery for celebrities has been a common thing for quite some time now, often with poor results.  Nicole Kidman looks like a Klingon because she's had so much Botox injected into her forehead, Tara Reid had HORRIBLE breast implants with scarring around her areolas (remember the 'oops! my boobie fell out!' moment on the red carpet, anyone?) and her so much liposuction on her abdomen it looked like some pre-school kid's experiment with modelling clay, and lets not forget the once handsome Mickey Rourke who now looks like.....well, I don't know WHAT he looks like, but he doesn't look like himself, that's for sure.

I've seen my fair share of bad plastic surgery, but today I saw something that so shocked me it left me at a loss for words and I felt like I HAD to come and share it with you.

Joan Van Ark, for those of you who don't remember, played Valene on Knots Landing.  I myself was never really partial to Dynasty-esque soaps (or any other soaps, for that matter), but I do recall Miss J V.A as a pretty pale blonde.  Up until a couple of years ago, she had aged fairly well:

Too thin and too orange, yeah, but not bad for a broad in her 50's (or 60's, depending on who you believe).

Then today, courtesy of the girls at www.gofugyourself I saw this:

Oh. my. gawd.

I know that I said that she was a wee bit orange in the first photo, but I didn't expect her to take me seriously and go all frostbitten.  She looks like she spent the night with Mister Freeze and some of his Freeze-iness rubbed off on her face.  Her makeup is akin to what I see little kids wearing when they go Trick-or-Treating; that smeary white pan-cake stuff that comes in a kit for $1.99 from Wal-Mart.

Whoever did her makeup obviously has more experience making cadavers look presentable for visitations, and the person who did her cosmetic surgery - and there HAS been some, just look at the texture of the skin on her lower face - should have their privileges suspended.  Immediately, before anyone else ends up looking like this. 

Joan, you were so pretty before!  Why did you have to go mess it up?!?