The ugly side of 'Nip/Tuck's Kelly Carlson

Oh, the glamour of Hollywood! Here's what Kelly Carlson had to do to get ready for the new season of Nip/Tuck:

"I lost a little bit of weight, got a little gaunt. They put some sores on my face. Circles under my eyes, dark, dark circles. Oooh, and we rotted my teeth -- they used these bleaching trays, like you would to whiten teeth, except the reverse. They stained my teeth to the color of muddy coffee."

It was, to put it mildly, a new look for Carlson, whose character Kimber has been variously a model, a porn star and a Scientologist missionary in the previous seasons of Nip/Tuck. But as season five gets underway at 10 p.m. Tuesday on the FX cable network, Kimber has become a twitchy, torqued-out meth-head. Read the full story from Sunday's Miami Herald.