Every scar has a story. You might have a scar on your knee from when you fell off your bike as a kid. Or a cool scar on your face from a sword duel when you fought off Cardinal Richelieu’s men alongside Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (or was that just a dream?). And even though there are a lot of things that separate us from celebrities, we all have one thing in common—scars.
Stars aren’t immune to getting scars. The stories behind them can be fascinating and give us a closer look into who celebs are as people and what their pasts were like. Imgur user Cheesemenolike collected some celeb facial scar stories and shared them on the internet. We’ve added some other stories about how celebs got their scars—and not just facial ones, either. Scroll down, upvote the stories that left an impression on you and let us know in the comments what you thought of them.
Cheesemenolike’s post got more than 119k views and over 4.8k upvotes in less than 15 hours since posting. According to the Imgurian, they love being on Imgur but sensed that people are getting very tired from all the political and coronavirus-related posts. “People go to Imgur for interesting or funny things. So I decided to post something I personally would like to read,” the Imgurian told Bored Panda. Scroll down for the rest of our interview with Cheesemenolike and have a read, dear Pandas.
#1 Tina Fey
She has a thin scar underneath her lips, to the left side of her face. It was caused by a violent attacker. Tina was just five when it happened. She was playing in the front yard when she was attacked by a man who slashed her across the face with a knife. The man was never found
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#2 Seal
He has distinct scars on his face. As a child, he suffered from Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE). DLE is a skin disease that causes inflammation, lesions, scarring and permanent hair loss.
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#3 Sean Bean
He has a scar on his face, caused by Harrison Ford while shooting his death scene in the movie Patriot Games (1992). Ford accidentally hit him with a boat hook.
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“It wasn’t too difficult to research. I have an interest for trivia about these things so some stories I already knew,” Cheesemenolike told us how he collected the info about celebs.
For Cheesemenolike personally, the most interesting story was that of Joaquin Phoenix. “He has stated numerous times that his mother felt a sharp pain when being pregnant with him and that his scar is merely a birth mark. But I heard in the discussion underneath the post he stated something else in the recent year, that it is in fact a cleft lip/palate,” they said.
“I think he is a great actor and I love his complex back ground story. His family took on the last name Phoenix to represent their rise from the ashes after a difficult time.”
#4 Jason Momoa
He got his scars during a fight with another man. Momoa got struck across the face with a (broken) pint glass. The man who assaulted him received a five year prison sentence.
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#5 Keanu Reeves
He got his abdominal scar from a motorcycle wreck in Topanga Canyon. He was on a “demon ride” (no headlights at night) when he crashed into the side of a mountain. He was hospitalized for a week with broken ribs and a ruptured spleen
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#6 Miles Teller
He was in a car accident that almost took his life.
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The Imgurian also shared with Bored Panda their own scar stories. “After I broke my right arm and was in a cast for six weeks, I burned my right hand with boiling water. It healed very well though, and the scar looks like freckles. I had to write with my left hand for months on end,” they revealed what happened when they were 10 years old.
“Maybe there will be a next segment soon,” Cheesemenolike said about their future plans for Imgur posts. “It’s not something I wanna put a lot of time in, just a couple of posts every month or so about various objects if I can find the time.”
#7 Harrison Ford
He has a scar on his chin from a car accident in the sixties. He tried to put on his seat belt while driving and lost control of the car. He drove into a telephone pole, slamming his face on the steering wheel
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#8 Tommy Flanagan
He has a facial scar that is known as a Glasgow Smile. He grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, in a rough part of the city. As he left a pub one night after a dj gig, a group of people tried to rob him. He fought back and was stabbed. They slashed his face from ear to ear.
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#9 Joaquin Phoenix
He has a birth mark on his upper lip. It’s not a cleft lip or palate. He has told in interviews that his mother, while pregnant with him, felt a sharp pain one day, and he was born with this mark on his lip
Image credits: Cheesemenolike
Scars are a natural part of life because it’s your body’s way to heal and repair wounds. Unfortunately, human beings aren’t like some animals that can regenerate without scarring.
When we get cut or burned, the first thing that happens is that we bleed. The blood then forms a clot and later on—a scab. This is our bodies’ way of stopping yucky infections from getting into our blood. While the top part of the scab is hard, the bottom part becomes host to cells that scientists call fibroblasts. It’s their job to replace the scab with scar tissue to close the wound as quickly as possible. Think of it this way: if there’s a hole in your roof and it’s raining, you’d want to plug the hole ASAP, no matter how ugly it might look.
#10 Michael K. Williams
He got his scar on his 25th birthday. He drank too much, got in an argument with other men at a bar and they cut them with a razor blade from the top of his head to his neck. He nearly lost his life that night.
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#11 Ed Sheeran
He did not get his face cut when Princes Beatrice accidentally hit him with a ceremonial sword. That was the story he and James Blunt fabricated. Sheeran was just drunk, fooling around and he cut himself.
Image credits: Cheesemenolike
#12 Andy Warhol
He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol was shot and he was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived: surgeons opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again.
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Even though scars are made from collagen just like our ‘normal’ skin, the two feel and look different. That has everything to do with how collagen is ‘woven’ in the two tissues: normal skin has a random cross-weave collagen structure while scars have collagen that’s aligned parallel, according to mathematicians John C. Dallon and Jonathan A. Sherratt.
Meanwhile, new studies like the one conducted by the German Research Center for Environmental Health indicate that there might be something more to how our bodies produce scars. Researchers have found indications that scars might actually originate from “reservoirs of matrix jelly” and these new findings could completely change what we know about scarring and anti-scarring therapies.
#13 Sharon Stone
While riding horseback as a child, Sharon Stone ran into a taut cord that sliced her neck, leaving her with a scar
#14 Padma Lakshmi
She was hospitalized for three weeks. Two days after her discharge from the hospital, she was injured in a car accident in Malibu, California, which left her with a fractured right hip and a shattered right upper arm. The arm injury required surgery, which left her with a seven-inch scar between her elbow and shoulder.
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#15 Prince William
The Prince was accidentally hit with a golf club when he was 13
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#16 Charlie Puth
Fans have speculated that singer Charlie Puth shaves his eyebrow, he actually was bitten by a dog when he was two
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#17 Steve Buscemi
He was stabbed by a guy who attacked him with a knife on his face.
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#18 Sandra Bullock
She has a tiny scar near her left eye. She’s reportedly had it since she was little, as she fell into a lake once and hit her head on a rock.
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#19 Kate Middleton
She has a three-inch scar in her hairline from a “childhood operation.”
#20 Queen Latifah
She has a two-inch scar just under her hairline. When she was 3, she was playing tag with her brother. She tripped and hit her head on the corner of the bathroom wall. After getting three stitches, she fell and busted it open again
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#21 Kaley Cuoco
She completely crushed the bottom of her leg during a horseback riding incident.
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#22 J.r. Martinez
He sustained severe burns to over 34 percent of his body while serving as an Army infantryman in Iraq. Since his recovery, he has traveled around the country speaking about his experiences to corporations, veterans groups, schools, and other organizations.
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#23 Jonah Hill
He was 15 when it all came to a head. He and a friend snuck out one night in an SUV. Hill stuck his elbow out the open window as they headed into the night, and his friend started turning the wheel back and forth, joking around. The car flipped over, skidded along the road and dragged Hill’s arm with it. Hill woke up in the hospital, and he heard two doctors discussing whether or not to amputate his arm
#24 Kylie Jenner
The scar she sustained on her leg as a result of an accident while climbing a pole when she was five
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#25 Adrian Pasdar
In his freshman year at the college he got into a bad car accident which left scars on his cheeks and chin.
#26 Joe Jonas
He has a scar above his nose after getting 50-60 stitches while making a video for Youtube with his brothers
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