I will never understand paying a doctor to make yourself look the way Lauren Sanchez does on purpose. (Or Kristi Noem, or the Kardashians, or any other awful rich person who has overdone it on the plastic surgery.) I’m not a hater of plastic surgery; I had my nose fixed years ago and I actually think, in the right quantities or for the right reasons, plastic surgery can be life-changing. But like the “diamond noses” of rhinoplasties past, plastic surgery like Lauren’s just looks artificial and, frankly, inhuman. As a historian I feel pretty strongly that future generations are going to look back on women like Sanchez and Noem in the same way that we look back at powdered wigs or foot-binding: “what the hell were they even thinking??”