Here are five celebrities who found fame and fortune thanks largely to an extensive ethnic makeover.

It's 2009, and race still matters. Especially if you're in front of the cameras and realize that in these enlightened times audiences like racial diversity as long as, you know, everyone looks sort of white.

5 Cindy Margolis

Cindy Margolis was born a gorgeous, brunette, Jewish girl. She continued being all three of those things in the 80s, when she was making okay money as a model. Her biggest credit was "Ribcage Girl" in a video called Shape up for Sensational Sex.

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She needed to take that next step to stardom, and she knew that here in America we like a certain type of girl.



This type. This is the type.

The Metamorphosis:

A. Nose job. She had them thin the bridge of the nose. Now it makes us sound like dicks to say she did it to make herself look "less Jewish" but the truth is, the procedure is depressingly very common for that exact reason. The first nose job ever performed was on a Jewish patient, in an era when it wasn't done out of vanity, but because of the terrible things that tended to happen to Jews in those days. So our society has advanced, but only to the point that you still have to do the procedure if you want to sell a certain number of bikini posters.

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B. Cheek implants. Fuller, higher cheeks give her a more "All-American" or Midwestern look.

C. Eye lift. Notice the complete re-sculpting of the area around her "ethnically" bushy eyebrows.

The Payoff:

Umm, how about this for starters:

After making the change to wholesome blonde, Margolis's bikini pics became a sensation in 1995, on some newfangled device called "the World Wide Web." She soon became a modeling phenomenon, advertised as "The Sexiest Woman Online."

However, this life of extreme fame and fortune, just for laying around, is eclipsed by her greatest achievement: Her own reality show where douchebags line up to win her affections.

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So surgery or not, that appears to be the ceiling for Cindy.