Law & Order: Plastic Surgery Victims Unit

Last week, Lara Flynn Boyle guest starred on Law & Order, playing an unscrupulous reporter looking for answers in a case that involved dog-fighting, wine fraud, and divorce. Except it's unclear whether many viewers realized it was her, because of her apparent plastic surgery.

The former Twin Peaks and Practice star looked so unlike herself that there's a thread on Yahoo! Answers, asking, "Is that really Lara Flynn Boyle on Law and Order right now? It doesn't look like her." Others replied, "Yes, that's her. That's what years of eating disorders, drugs and plastic surgery can do to a person," and "It looks like she was hit by a car and they had to reassemble her face with Botox and collagen... She looks like Joan Rivers long lost daughter, but uglier, with more plastic surgery--and more fake looking and shinier and red."

In other L&O news, the NY Times reports a libel lawsuit against Law & Order creator Dick Wolf can proceed; bald Indian-American lawyer Ravi Batra claims an episode that shows a bald Indian-American lawyer named Ravi Patel bribing a judge is defamatory. (Batra was friendly with corrupt judge Gerald Garson.) Another lawsuit should be filed by Boyle, against her plastic surgeon for the terrible work and her agent for allowing her to appear on TV like that.

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on March 20, 2008 5:01 PM

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Roscoe

I have always considered LFB to be an exceptionally beautiful woman and to see her in this state is a frightening reminder of how our society's obsession with beauty has turned into a grave illness. We should be afraid...we should be very afraid.

Guest

I was always more of a Sherilyn Fenn fan because I though LFB was too skinny. Now she's too skinny and plastic. Poor girl looks like she was hit in the face by the Log Lady's log.

Nick S

somehow grossly deformed lara flynn boyle ends up looking like Robin from How I Met Your Mother.. only she's pretty and LFB looks like the Toxic Avenger.

zodak

omg that looks nothing like donna hayward. wtf happened.

JRod5417

Poor LFB. She should sue her doctor and herself for gross stupidity.

janelle

@nick haha, yes, of course... don't get me started on gross jack nicholson. between this and jennifer grey... what gets into people's heads? YOU LOOK FINE. ugh!

Jen Chung

the other sjp - EXACTLY! Tien and I were talking about how terrible she looked and Jake incredulously asked, "Wait, THAT was LARA FLYNN BOYLE?"

the_other_sjp

oh my god! THAT'S who that was! i was watching but missed the credits and kept thinking that she looked SO familiar but couldn't place her. wow, her lips were horrible.