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Jennifer Grey Looks the Same She Did in 1987

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Dancing With the Stars fans are not only buzzing about Jennifer Grey's stellar moves on the dance floor.

They also can't stop talking about how, at 50, she hasn't aged a wink since her heyday in 1987 when she starred in Dirty Dancing (see photo, left).

Grey — who has an 8-year-old daughter, Stella, with actor/director Clark Gregg — has definitely been through a lot.

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In the early 90s, she underwent a botched nose job; a second surgery done to repair the damage changed her face so drastically that friends couldn't recognize her, and she couldn't land parts in TV or film.

"It's absurd that just a nose job could wreak such havoc," she told The Washington Post in 1999.

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Last year, the actress faced an even scarier hurdle: She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Before she signed on for DWTS, she had her neck checked out because she had been experiencing pain (she survived a horrific car accident in Ireland in 1987).

Her doctor warned her about hitting the dance floor. "[My doctor] said, 'You can't do that Jen, you'll get paralyzed if you fall … So you need to fuse your neck,'" she recently told Access Hollywood.

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As she prepared to have her spine fused, her surgeon noticed a lump on her neck.

She hasn't revealed whether she is 100 percent cancer-free, but she told Access Hollywood her cancer is "curative. I don't consider myself in the same league as people who have had to go through chemotherapy."

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She recently told UsMagazine.com her surgeries were "the scariest thing in the world," but they allowed her to face her fears.

"I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months," she told Us. "Now, here I am, dancing the jive! I am so happy!"

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