Toothday
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Joel Kim Boosterpossesses something increasingly rare in Hollywood: an imperfect set of teeth.
Compared to his perfect,chicken-smoothie-wroughtabs, the teeth stand out.
But teeth are objective.
Theyre straight or theyre crooked; theyre white or theyre not.
Often, celebrities choose to have their teeth fixed, usually by getting veneers.
But not Booster at least not yet.
I love when people ask me when Im going to fix my teeth, the comediantweeted on June 19.
And quite honestly if I did, it would almost make me too powerful.
Below is an edited version from the interview.
It was the weekend that Instagram released the Q&A feature on Stories.
I had already moved to L.A. at this point and was coming back from a Fire Island trip.
It was the first time someone had clocked me for having bad teeth.
At that point in my career, I didnt necessarily have the means to address it.
My response was simply No.
Listen, I smoked for seven years.
I drink soda every day.
My teeth are not as white as they could be.
For so long, I didnt have dental insurance.
And even if you do have insurance, any work beyond a cleaning is a lot out of pocket.
So I avoided the dentist for a big stretch of my late 20s to early 30s.
I saw the dentist maybe once when I lived in Chicago right after college.
Ive seen the dentist maybe ten times over the past ten years, and most of that is recent.
For us, it was more economics than it was anything else:He doesnt really need it.
Im left now with these fully jagged bottom-row teeth.
My bottom teeth are fucked up.
I specifically talk in a different way to not reveal the bottom row of my teeth.
Its literally about removing certain faces from my repertoire.
Ill be like: [Keeps mouth shut and looks concerned.]
Its not something Ive spent an inordinate amount of time focused on.
Im not sitting in front of the mirror and practicing.
But its always in the back of my mind.
Mytweetwasnt me fishing for compliments.
Plus, I was less hot, so there was an element of the audience not buying it.
I would play with that.
I have done teeth whitening.
It didnt really help that much.
Your teeth will be whiter.
I thought it would be comforting in some way, but it wasnt.
Its such a moving target.
Getting my teeth whitened and spending all that money made me even less inclined to get veneers.
That was my thing I was gonna do when I had money.
Getting veneers is a lateral move, almost.
Its not that youve fixed your teeth, youve just gotten veneers.
Maybe I will get veneers someday.
I mean, my teeth are eroding because of the amount of soda that I drink.
Either way, its all a little bit of theater.
