Archive for June 2014

My sister has a scar on the right side of her face (on her cheek just above the jaw line) that I had completely forgotten about. I haven't seen it in so long because whenever I look at her I'm never looking for it, so I never see it. I've never forgotten that particular day from our childhood, as I was with her when the incident occurred, but I've never sought out her scar to focus on. I guess when you have a long history with someone and you see the tiniest details about this person, someone else might just notice their scars but because your head is filled with so much other information it is impossible for you to edit your thoughts to just focus on a scar or a specific feature (that's old news to you, but may be recent news to someone else) when you have a million other stories about other scars (some visible, some aren't) and incidents or whatever. My sister's scar has faded over the years but recently she was looking at old photographs of herself and she went "Oh my scar!" and I whipped my head around to look at her and that's when I remembered. She said she had forgotten about it, just as I did, but that moment from a couple weeks ago gave me the idea to compile a selection of famous representations. So I wanna say thank you to my sister, and her flawless face for inspiring this post. She's one of the most beautiful girls (she knows it, I know it) but I don't feel the need to mention it while talking about her scar because I am careful never to glorify the incident or trivialize the wound that she sustained as a result of it. So cheers bae! Thanks again for the inspiration.

In this poster, click their names to read the stories behind the scars: Tina Fey: left side of her face just bellow cheekbone to under her bottom lip | Tobias Sørensen: left side of face | Michael K. Williams: down his face, from forehead to right cheek | Sandra Bullock: by her left eye | Seal: (discoid lupus erythematosus) face and scalp | Adrian Pasdar: cheeks and chin | Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson: left cheek | Mary J. Blige: under her left eye | Tommy Flanagan: from the sides of his mouth going across his cheeks | Joaquin Phoenix: (microform cleft) between his lip and nose | Sanaa Lathan: right cheek | Kimora Lee Simmons: above her lip
Other celebrities with facial scars: Model Sacha M'Baye | Right cheek & above lip

Images: Getty, Axelle/Bauer-Griffin, FlynetPictures.com. Tobias Sørensen photographed by Greg Kadel for Vince Camuto's F/W 2013 lookbook, photo via The Fashionisto