Tag Archives: plastic surgery

Is Beyonce The Face Of The Future’s Greatest Beauty?

Erin FlahertyMarch 17, 2010 //

“Do you think 50 years ago in America they would have been considered icons of beauty?” Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Russell Kridell asked this question at a recent conference, pointing to photos of Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Lucy Liu. While a seminar exploring surgical techniques deep in the heart of Texas hardly sounds like a font of female empowerment, one fascinating and pertinent finding emerged: Thanks to the international embrace of multicultural beauty icons, our standards of what is considered the aesthetic ideal is evolving dramatically.

This isn’t a completely new concept. A 2006 paper by evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry “projected that by the year 3000, human beings will interbreed to become a single race of coffee-colored beings with a genetic upper class of tall, slim folks with even features.” Like Beyonce, with some extra inches added to her petite frame. Keep reading »

Plastic Surgeon Allegedly Gives Woman The Wrong Breast Implants

Jessica WakemanMarch 16, 2010 //

Hey, Brittany Daly of Steubenville, Ohio? You need to give Maria Alaimo of Staten Island — the woman whose plastic surgeon accidentally gave her four boobs — a call stat. Y’all need to start a club or something for victims of boob jobs gone wrong! On Friday, Daly filed a $300,000 malpractice lawsuit claiming Dr. Beverly Carl, of Bridgewater, PA, caused her “physical and emotional discomfort” when she gave her the wrong implants in a 2008 boob job. Keep reading »

8 Plastic Surgeries That Should Be Made Illegal

Amelia McDonell-ParryMarch 11, 2010 //

It’s nuts what people will do to look good, but sometimes it’s even weirder what people think looks good to begin with. And with plastic surgery addiction becoming a growing problem, these people need to be stopped. Starting with ear pointing. I’m down with a sexy elf just as much as the next girl, but there are prosthetic ears that look pretty real. It’s not really necessary to have the top of your ear sliced and sutured together. Give it 50 years and see how you feel about being a withered old elf, OK? [BMEZine]

Here are 7 other plastic surgeries we think should be made illegal. Keep reading »

Heidi Montag Laughs At Her New Face

Ami AngelowiczMarch 9, 2010 //

At least Heidi Montag sees the humor in her new plastic self. In this new “Funny of Die” video, she warns other reality TV stars about the dangers of paying for all their plastic surgeries on credit. Instead, she advocates that we fight for strong consumer protection. Hubby Spencer even makes a cameo posing like a Buddha on a pedestal. Don’t ask. You’re guaranteed to laugh at Heidi’s balloon boobs and Botox-impaired smile. Maybe this is her own special way of discouraging young people from becoming plastic surgery addicts? [Bump Shack] Keep reading »

6 Women Hospitalized From Black Market Butt Implants

Jessica WakemanMarch 9, 2010 //

Breaking news: getting plastic surgery off the “black market” is a bad idea! Six Dominican woman from the Newark, New Jersey area have been hospitalized with infections from “black market” butt implants by a fake “plastic surgeon.” Health officials say Dr. Shady injected the women’s derrieres with “a variety of unknown materials,” possibly including silicone, petroleum jelly and hardware-grade caulk. Ewwww. In a second obvious sign of sketchiness, all of the “implant” procedures apparently took place inside hotels. Yes, hotels. Congratulations, New Jersey. You have managed to top the Staten Island, New York plastic surgeon who, in 2003, accidentally gave a woman four breast implants instead of two.

Ladies, I have a better plan to get a Kim Kardashian booty without butt implants: drink one Starbucks mocha Frappucino morning, noon and night, and eat a box of Girl Scout cookies for a snack every afternoon. Works like a charm in no time! [Fox News] Keep reading »

Woman Claims Her Plastic Surgeon Gave Her Four Boobs

Jessica WakemanMarch 3, 2010 //

As if ruptured implants and leaky silicone weren’t scary enough, a woman in Staten Island, New York, is suing the plastic surgeon of her 2003 boob job, claiming she was given four breasts, instead of two, in a botched breast implant procedure. According to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Maria Alaimo paid $7,000 cash for a pair of 36-C cups, but Dr. Keith Berman accidentally implanted a “double-bubble” of boobies. Alaimo is asking for $5 million to compensate for the pain she’s suffered from her freaky mammaries — which poor jurors at the Staten Island Supreme Court had to look at in pictures. (How about that for doing your civic duty!) According to the New York Daily News, post-op photos depict Alaimo’s quad-breasts as “flattened on the bottom with severe swells the size of a softball on top. (Imagine what this would look like on Pamela Anderson, left, thanks to the magic of Photoshop.)

Yuck. All the more reason to keep our jiggly bits natural, right, ladies? [New York Daily News] Keep reading »

Girl Talk: Why I Got A Non-Invasive Boob Job

Contessa SchexnayderFebruary 26, 2010 //

Vanity is something that plagues women—all of us have fallen prey to the aesthetic monster at some point. When I first saw pop tart Heidi Montag unveil her shiny new body and face after getting 10 cosmetic procedures in one day, I thought, “WTF? She didn’t need any work done—she was 23 and beautiful.” But then again, someone probably would have said the same thing about me.

I’ll admit it—I recently had one-tenth of Heidi’s plastic surgery. Strike that—I prefer to call it “non-plastic surgery.” As a 26-year-old single black female, I had finally gotten fed up with my top parts, which had started to resemble two droopy, sad party balloons. I wish I could say I had the pleasure of once having amazing boobs, but, annoyingly, they have always been more National Geographic-style. And so, I volunteered to be the guinea pig for a brand-new non-invasive breast lift. Keep reading »

Heidi Montag: New Face, New Playboy Spread

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comFebruary 16, 2010 //

It’s safe to say that we all saw this coming. We wondered why Heidi Montag chose to do her muddy Playboy spread before getting a marathon 10 plastic surgery procedures done in a single day. Now we know the answer—so she can do a second photo shoot with the new face and bod. She says that she plans to do one “soon, very soon,” and adds, “I cannot wait to show off my new assets. I’m very excited.” And this time, she’ll apparently be taking it all off for the mag. Run. Now. [NY Daily News]

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Botox Makes You Happy?

Lauren PanarielloFebruary 11, 2010 //

Ever wish there was a shot to cure sadness? Ever guess that shot was Botox? A new study suggests that freezing the muscles that create frowns (like the infamous jolt of Botulism) can actually stop the sad emotions that accompany the expression. A study of 40 people showed that Botox-injected plastic surgery patients took longer to process sad and unhappy situations than people without frozen foreheads, but could still process happy emotions just as quickly. Weird, huh? [Newsweek] Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Jessica Alba Tells Woman Not To Get Plastic Surgery To Look Like Her

Jessica WakemanFebruary 9, 2010 //
  • Jessica Alba thinks Xiaoqing — the 21-year-old Chinese woman who is allegedly getting plastic surgery to look like Alba because her boyfriend is obsessed with the actress — is as crazy as everyone else does. “I think you should never have to change yourself like that,” Alba said. “If somebody loves you, they’ll love you no matter what.” [New York Daily News]
  • Shoshana Johnson, 37, the nation’s first African-American female prisoner of war, talks about her ordeal in her a new book out this week, I’m Still Standing. Johnson, who was captured in Iraq in the same ambush as POW Jessica Lynch, says she hopes to bring more attention to post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers. [Yahoo]

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