14 Celebrities with Scars

Lakshmi received her recognizable seven-inch scar after a car crash at age 14 that left her right arm shattered. In a piece she wrote for Vogue, Lakshmi mused that at the time she wished she'd told doctors to cut the underside of her arm instead, but she grew to appreciate the scar as a symbol of what she'd survived.

Fey got her recognizable chin scar when she was five years old, standing in her yard, and a stranger came up and slashed her face. She doesn't like to discuss the scar, and when acting as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock, favors the right side of her face.

In 1968, Ford tried to buckle up too late -- he was driving the car -- and got in an accident. The scar has been explained in two movies: In the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, young Indy (River Phoenix) accidentally hits himself in the face with a whip, thus adding the scar to canon.

The American Idol season 4 alum has a nasty-looking scar on his neck from a tracheotomy he had as a child. And he still managed to place fourth that year! After Idol he went on to musical theater; most recently, he starred in the first production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to play in Japan, but it was of course cut short by the March earthquake and tsunami.

Though her rep claimed at the time that Lovato had merely been wearing tight jelly bracelets, the Disney star's confession that she was a cutter almost guarantees the source of the scars spotted on the inside of her wrist.

According to IMDb, Phoenix's scar is not the result of a cleft palette operation, but rather a birthmark he received in the womb when his mother felt "a sharp pain" one day.

The Boardwalk Empire star received his forehead scar in a bar fight on his 25th birthday. Though he's said that during that fight he feared for his life, obviously he's done pretty well for himself -- and the scar even got incorporated into his character on The Wire, Omar Little.

Reid is the best deterrent for liposuction, considering the scars she sports on her stomach. Props for not letting it bother her and going out in a bikini, but still... the evidence is right there.

The Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close star said that the nick above her left eye came from roughhousing as a child.

The Beatle got a scar above his lip from a motorcycle accident, but "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theorists believe that the scar is actually a sign of the plastic surgery that McCartney's lookalike got.

There's a difference between Padma Lakshmi wearing her scar as a brand of courage and Montag -- whose scars are from her crazy plastic surgeries -- doing the same.

Another crazy rumor: The pockmarks on Seal's face are from a tribal scarring rite. Nope -- they're likely the result of a dermatological condition where the body's immune system accidentally attacks healthy skin.

Zeta-Jones also underwent a tracheotomy in her youth, though her scar is not as pronounced as Federov's. (No, that's not it in the photo, either.)

...in Beastly, at least!