💧 I Like People to Look Like People

[Sadly for me, that doesn’t seem to be in right now.]
When I wrote about garish weddings earlier this month, the linked page included an image that really caught my eye:

The woman on Jeff Bezos’s arm is apparently Lauren Sanchez, his wife. I poked around a bit more, and wound up on an article that included this comparison of Sanchez at age 33 (2002) and age 55 (2025):

Yes, how do these rumors get started?

Look, I make an effort not to comment on the appearance of other people. If someone stops looking like a person, however, an exception may be made. If that’s the result of plastic surgery for a billionaire’s wife, no one is safe.

This came up again when I read about a bizarre murder (and beheading!) in Australia. Tamika Chesser is charged with killing her boyfriend Julian Story. In something of a reverse “In The Pines”1, Story’s body was found in an apartment, but his head never was found.

Chesser’s head, meanwhile, looks like this:

[Photo credit: Tamika Chesser]

When I saw this picture, I wondered how police were going to arrest a mid-2000s video game character. Chesser has somehow fallen backwards from human into something out of the Uncanny Valley, and she looks like a virtual reality rendering.

That led me to ask ChatGPT to re-draw Chesser in the style of Fortnite. It came up with this:

Somehow, that AI creation looks more realistic than her actual photograph. Compare!

Anyway, seriously folks, aging is OK. So is looking your age! Looking like not a person, and paying for the privilege? No thanks.

Footnotes:

Perhaps more familiar as “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”. ↩︎