Would you do this for $100K

Unbeliebable: 33-year-old Bieber fanatic has $100k of plastic surgery to look like his idol

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A 33-year-old man has spent five years and $100,000 in an effort to look like his hero - teenaged pop idol Justin Bieber.

Toby Sheldon is a songwriter from Los Angeles who has used Bieber's youthful features as the inspiration for numerous surgeries, including face fillers, a chin reduction and eyelid surgery.

Sheldon's obsession with his appearance began when he started having treatments to prevent his hair thinning at the age of 23, but really took off when a pre-pubescent Justin Bieber hit the big-time in 2008.

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Face time: A fresh-faced Toby Sheldon 10 years ago (left); and now (right) after $100,000 of surgery to look like Justin Bieber

Sheldon, along with hordes of preteen girls, became enamored of the pop star.

'Once Justin shot to fame his face was everywhere and I all I kept thinking when I saw his picture was, "I want to look like him,"' Sheldon says.

Sheldon had already spent $8,000 on hair transplants to supplement his thinning blond locks, but he wasn't happy with the results.

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He took a picture of Bieber to his plastic surgeon to demonstrate exactly how he wanted his hair to look.

'It took three transplants and a total of $21,000 to accurately lower my hair line, close off my temples and grow back my bangs,' he says.

Once he had perfected his Bieber-style hair, Sheldon, who admits to a phobia of aging, decided he wasn't finished.

Teen idol: 33-year-old Toby Sheldon wants his face to resemble Justin Bieber's

'By using Justin’s charming baby face as my inspiration, I’ve been able to restructure my entire look to maintain a much more youthful appearance through plastic surgery.'

Sheldon says he admires Bieber for his youthful good looks, if not his musical output.

'I didn’t necessarily listen to his music or fawn over him as a celebrity, but his face was just so flawless every change I made was modeled after him.'

In this quest, Sheldon has remodeled his features so that he bears little resemblance to the fair-haired, pleasant-featured man he was before his surgeries.

After his successful hair refurbishment, Sheldon had his face and lips plumped up with filler to look more youthful.

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Next, he had Botox and Aquamid injections in his forehead and temples.

In 2012, he spent $4,850 on eye surgery to lift his upper eyelids.

'But it took going to eight different surgeons before anyone would agree to operate on me as everyone thought I was crazy to be obsessing over such a tiny detail,' he says.

His most recent procedure, a three-part smile surgery, has literally turned his frown upside down in an effort to emulate his 19-year-old idol’s boyish smile.

Popular in South Korea, smile surgery has doubled in the U.S. in the past year.

'When I first sought out to look like Justin I only paid attention to specific aspects of his boyish look like his hair and the structure of his face,' says Sheldon.

Resemblance? Toby Sheldon acknowledges that he needs a few more procedures before he'll be considered Bieber's 'doppelganger'

'But the more I started studying Justin and young people in general it’s really their smile that gives them their youthful glow. If you look closely, you’ll notice that when younger people just barely have their mouths open they naturally show their top teeth, giving them a sort of natural and effortless smile.'

For $30,000 Sheldon's Beverly Hills plastic surgeon lifted his upper lip, turned out his bottom lip and turned up the corners of his mouth to give him a 'perma-smile.'

He also had liposuction on his chin to smooth out his smile and had the fat from his chin transferred to his hands, lips and under his eyes.

Even after a total of $100,000 worth of plastic surgery to look like his baby-faced idol, Toby says he still hasn’t achieved his dream look.

'I know there is more work to be done in order to make a full transformation into Justin Bieber’s doppelganger like a nose job and jaw reduction, which my surgeon has suggested.'

Sheldon proudly relates a story about being turned away from a liquor store recently because the staff didn't believe he is 33.

Although Sheldon's similarity to his teen idol isn't immediately obvious even after spending $100,000 worth of surgical procedures, he says he does get mistaken for Bieber.

'Between our similar hairstyles, baby faced smile and overall youthful appearance I finally look like Justin Bieber and I couldn’t be happier about it,' he says.

 

Beyond satire, this world.

beyond idiotic

worth every penny

Good for him! I'm sure the large financial expense will pay off with the elusive self-love he so eagerly deserves.

If his goal is to pick-up teenage girls...

Plastic surgery is fascinating and creepy. There are entire pockets of society - especially "new money" in places like say Beverly Hills or OC or Miami, etc where everyone has had plastic surgery and/or spends thousands of dollars on appearance alone. It's almost a wealth indicator itself. It creates a strangely uniform looking group of people who all try to emulate and fake "idolized" concept of beauty, which is sad when the reality is people are diverse in looks and the concept of true beauty is as well. Yet as recently as the 1990s plastic surgery was something that could easily make you a target of gossip and criticism if not done for medical reasons, for instance it was controversial when actress Barbara_Hershey got work done, but now it's a open secret that most A-list stars get subtle cosmetic surgery done all the time.

http://youtu.be/bm5BqeBJCpc

^Good documentary about how prevalent it's become among some groups in American society and in some other countries as well: 1 in 5 Korean women have undergone plastic surgery.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/the-k-pop-plastic-surgery-obsession/276215/

http://kpsurgery.tumblr.com/

  On 10/21/2013 at 5:21 PM, joshuatx said:

Plastic surgery is fascinating and creepy. There are entire pockets of society - especially "new money" in places like say Beverly Hills or OC or Miami, etc where everyone has had plastic surgery and/or spends thousands of dollars on appearance alone. It's almost a wealth indicator itself. It creates a strangely uniform looking group of people who all try to emulate and fake "idolized" concept of beauty, which is sad when the reality is people are diverse in looks and the concept of true beauty is as well. Yet as recently as the 1990s plastic surgery was something that could easily make you a target of gossip and criticism if not done for medical reasons, for instance it was controversial when actress Barbara_Hershey got work done, but now it's a open secret that most A-list stars get subtle cosmetic surgery done all the time.

 

http://youtu.be/bm5BqeBJCpc

 

^Good documentary about how prevalent it's become among some groups in American society and in some other countries as well: 1 in 5 Korean women have undergone plastic surgery.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/the-k-pop-plastic-surgery-obsession/276215/

http://kpsurgery.tumblr.com/

This is not the time to supply logic & historical takes on plastic surgery joshua.

It's time for

I thought sex change operations were much more expensive...

HEY-Oooohhh

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  On 10/21/2013 at 5:45 PM, Joyrex said:

I thought sex change operations were much more expensive...

  On 10/21/2013 at 5:28 PM, olo said:

  On 10/21/2013 at 5:21 PM, joshuatx said:

This is not the time to supply logic & historical takes on plastic surgery joshua.

 

It's time for

 

 

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Agreed. Let me get back on track:

lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com

damn right

A 33 yrs old songwriter putting down $100K for plastic surgery? WTF!? Does he write for Kanye West?

  On 10/21/2013 at 8:25 PM, goDel said:

A 33 yrs old songwriter putting down $100K for plastic surgery? WTF!? Does he write for Kanye West?

Naw. Kanye don't pay white people.

$100k but a lifetime of regret is... priceless

Also, based on the thread title I thought this would be about doing something incredibly deviant in exchange for 100k

  On 10/21/2013 at 11:47 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

$100k but a lifetime of regret is... priceless

 

Also, based on the thread title I thought this would be about doing something incredibly deviant in exchange for 100k

I did as well. This is akin to a Rickroll, imo.

me right now :

i think its pretty good, he looks like a bieber and butthead fusion

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He looks like Martina Hingis now.

Lol

Well spent 100K if you'd look at it that way! I hope he's a closeted Hingis fan.

  On 10/21/2013 at 8:18 PM, Nebraska said:

Yolandi Vi$$er

  On 10/21/2013 at 5:45 PM, Joyrex said:

I thought sex change operations were much more expensive...

haha touché