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Tennis Player to Undergo Breast Reduction

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Simona Halep has been taking the junior tennis circuit by storm lately. The 17-year-old Romanian tennis player is widely regarded as one of the up-and-coming stars of professional tennis. She has already won numerous junior titles and this summer, she will attempt to make the field at Wimbledon. She is currently ranked 317th in the world, and she is still young enough to be in high school.

However, Halep feels that her 34DD breasts are currently holding her back on the tennis court, and she has declared that she will undergo breast reduction surgery later this year to correct the issue. Her plan is to have the surgery sometime this fall.

Halep claims that her large breasts make her uncomfortable when playing tennis. They weigh her down, which adversely impacts her reaction time.

While this may seem like a perfectly logical choice for a professional athlete, many of her male fans are shocked and outraged at her decision. They have even started an online petition to save her boobs. One fan has gone as far as to declare, “It will be a crime against nature.”

It is unbelievable that these fans could be so selfish. A woman’s decision to undergo breast reduction surgery is never taken lightly. On the contrary, for many women, it is a difficult decision that takes quite some time to arrive at. For these fans to expect that Halep should endure pain and sacrifice performance on the tennis court so that they could watch her DDs bounce up and down on TV is disgusting.

Personally, I applaud Halep for making this difficult decision, and I hope that the surgery helps her blossom into the tennis player that she has the potential to be. I only hope that her many adoring fans come around to their sensibilities and start supporting her decision as well.

If you are interested in breast reduction surgery in the Naples, Florida area, please contact Dr. Manuel Pena today to schedule an initial consultation.

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Cougars on the Rise in Urban Night Life

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Over the past five years, there has been a rapid rise in the number of “cougars” present in the urban night life scene across the country. This new trend has drastically changed the modern dating scene.

The term “cougar” refers to a woman over the age of 35 who regularly dates men a decade or more younger than they are. Many of these women are financially established, very confident, attractive, and looking to have some fun.

While American society frowned upon cougars 10-20 years ago, changes in society, especially pop culture, have altered public opinion on the phenomenon. Saturday Night Live skits disparaging cougars have been replaced by a reality TV show called “The Cougar” (airing on TV Land), and ABC is currently developing a new sitcom starring Courtney Cox called “Cougar Town.”

Of course, this phenomenon wouldn’t work if there weren’t a growing number of women embracing their cougarism and an equally growing number of young men who are more than happy to date them.

So why are so many sparks flying between cougars and young guys? There are a few factors that have probably influenced the rise in this new dating trend.

Many cougars are either divorced or have just not met that right person yet, and many of them are looking to have some fun for a little while before settling into a serious relationship. Younger men provide them with a more fun relationship than an older man who is saddled with an ex-wife, kids to take care of, and a job that requires their all-encompassing attention.

However, there is probably a more important factor in the rise of the cougar. More than ever before, women in their late 30′s, 40′s, and early 50′s are maintaining an attractive appearance. This is most likely due to an increased emphasis on fitness in our society, as well as the rapidly growing acceptance of plastic surgery.

With a tummy tuck, breast augmentation, or facelift, many cougars can look a decade younger overnight. Since many of these women make more than $75,000 a year, they can certainly afford to undergo these cosmetic enhancements. As a result, many younger guys do not view these cougars as an “older woman” in the traditional sense of the term. Similarly, many of these women prefer to date younger men who still take care of themselves and are equally attractive.

It is uncertain whether this trend will still be prevalent 10 years from now, but at the moment, cougars are here to stay. Check them out at your local bar or night club. One of them just may give you her number.

If you are a cougar looking to boost your appearance and get an extra edge on the Dallas, Texas dating scene, please contact the Cosmetic Surgical Center today to schedule a consultation with Dr. Rai.

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More Breast Augmentation Information

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

A good plastic surgeon should be committed to patient education. Informed patients make better decisions and are happier with their results. As part of a commitment to patient education, we at the Park Plaza Plastic Surgery office continue to expand our information about key procedures performed by New York plastic surgeon Dr. George Lefkovits. This month we have added four new pages about breast augmentation (also known as breast enlargement), the most popular plastic surgery procedure, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). These pages include good information to help women decide whether they are good candidates for breast augmentation, and to evaluate the state of their current breast implants to decide whether they want to have breast implant revision surgery to improve or restore the results of a prior breast enlargement. Even the best results of breast enlargement don’t last forever. Even if a woman wears a good supporting bra (especially during workouts), doesn’t smoke, and takes good care of her skin, breast implants are not expected to last more than 15 years.

Since silicone breast implants were re-approved for cosmetic breast enlargement, the decision of whether to have saline or silicone implants is a very important one. We have expanded our information on silicone and saline breast implants for potential breast enlargement candidates.

Finally, we address the very important issue of how breast implants affect mammograms. Breast cancer is the most deadly cancer for women, and it is important that women understand potential risks before undergoing breast enlargement with breast implants.

An informed patient is more likely to have better results from any procedure, and we will continue to expand the information on our website for all procedures. Of course, the website can never be so complete that it contains all the information acquired by New York breast surgeon Dr. George Lefkovits during his decades of education and practice. To learn everything you need to know about this procedure, schedule a breast enlargement consultation today.

 

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Transsexual Breast Surgery Approved for Minor

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

An Australian judge has ruled that a 17-year-old female will be allowed to have breast surgery. She plans to undergo a double mastectomy as part of a transsexual operation to become a male.

The judge stated that he felt it was a fairly easy decision to make. The teenager would be able to undergo breast surgery in a year once she turned 18. The main question to evaluate was, would it be likely that she would change her mind before her 18th birthday?

The judge felt that it was apparent that the teenager would not change her mind within the year. Therefore, there didn’t seem to be much of a point in preventing her from completing her transgender surgery at the current time.

It is uncertain whether an American judge would have made a similar ruling on the case. However, it does appear that the ruling was fair. This teenager was less than one year away from legally being able to make the decision to have the double mastectomy, and it was clear that she was intent on becoming a male as soon as legally possible. To deny her this operation at the present moment would only result in emotional and psychological scarring for the next year. This would not benefit anyone.

If you are interested in breast surgery in the Chicago, Illinois area, please contact Dr. Otto J. Placik to schedule your initial consultation.

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Paris, Nicole, Lindsay, and the Olsen Twins Battle Plastic Surgery Zombies

Friday, May 15th, 2009

You can find just about anything on the Internet these days. While there may be a large amount of trash lurking on websites, if you dig hard enough, you can find a few gems as well. I recently came across one of these gems on a website called heavy.com. It is an animated short entitled “Superficial Friends vs. Plastic Surgery Zombies.”

The three and a half minute cartoon is action packed and delivers at every turn. The Superficial Friends consist of five of the most loathed, bratty celebrities tormenting Americans today: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, and the Olsen twins.

The cartoon starts with the five “super heroes” leaving their lair, which is modeled after the Hall of Justice found in the 1970′s “Super Friends” cartoons that combined most of the major DC Comics superheroes in one show. As they leave their pad, each star is introduced. Highlighting these introductions are scenes of Paris Hilton humping the leg of a criminal like a dog in heat and Nicole Richie sticking her finger down her throat to vomit on a police officer. The narrator informs the viewer that our super heroes are “dedicated to selfishness and social ignorance.”

In this particular adventure, the Superficial Friends have traveled to Honduras to get labia widening procedures at a covert plastic surgery lab. The controversial procedure is illegal in America, forcing the Superficial Friends to seek the assistance of the Cat Lady and her black market plastic surgery facility.

It is not long before our heroes discover that the Cat Lady has stolen labias from poor Hondurans for use in these controversial procedures. As they begin to raise a protest, the Cat Lady brings out her army of plastic surgery zombies to attack the Superficial Friends.

Nicole Richie borrows Paris Hilton’s “call daddy for anything phone” and recruits her father for assistance. In what is most likely the highlight of the entire short, Lionel Richie appears out of nowhere and begins singing “All Night Long.” The plastic surgery zombies clearly are not big fans of his music, and one of them rips Lionel Richie’s arms off, causing blood to spurt into the air in projectile fashion.

The Cat Lady then uses her BOTOX ray to freeze the Superficial Friends in their tracks while she steals their Bulemia-o-copter to transport her plastic surgery zombies to Beverly Hills. They are on a mission to destroy all of the plastic surgeons in the area. As the Bulemia-o-copter takes off, it dumps a large pile of vomit on our heroes. Nicole Richie informs the rest of the group that the vomit is left over from her most recent binge — 27 Tombstone pizzas and some Carl’s Junior.

Somehow, the Superficial Friends break free of their vomitous BOTOX shackles and follow the Cat Lady back to Beverly Hills for the final showdown against her plastic surgery zombies. Nicole Richie assaults them with her massive shoe collection, but that does not slow them down as they continue to mercilessly pummel the city’s plastic surgeons. Paris Hilton summons a horde of ex-boyfriends to do the job, but they are no match for the zombies and their BOTOX rays.

Things are starting to look bleak for the Superficial Friends. It looks as if the Cat Lady may succeed in ridding Beverly Hills of plastic surgeons. In a last-ditch effort, the Olsen twins combine their superpowers and transform into Bob Saget, who picks up the Cat Lady’s BOTOX ray and uses it to destroy her. Plastic surgery has been saved.

The creativity of this piece is undeniable. It is highly entertaining from start to finish. In my opinion, any video where a zombie rips off Lionel Richie’s arms to get him to stop singing is worth a watch. And of course, the video included the gratuitous Bob Saget scene that is crucial for the success of anything making fun of the Olsen twins.

Fortunately for Dr. Bray, our heroes were able to save the day before the plastic surgery zombies had their way with him. So if you are in need of a plastic surgery procedure in the Los Angeles or Beverly Hills, California area, please contact the Bray Plastic Surgery Medical Center, Inc. today to schedule a consultation with Dr. Bray. He does not harvest the body parts of poor Honduran farm workers for use in his procedures.

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Identity Crisis

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

You never know what a midlife crisis can cause a person to do. For Janet Cunliffe, a British woman in her early 50′s, her crisis drove her to take on the physical identity of another person — her daughter.

As shocking as this may sound, Janet spent tens of thousands of dollars to try and look exactly like her 29-year-old daughter Jane. While they do not look like twins, their appearance is strikingly more similar than what you would expect from a mother/daughter tandem.

Janet was getting out of a bad relationship and suffered from severe self-confidence issues. She moved in with her daughter Jane and the two began doing everything together. Whether it was simply fueled by a desire to look younger or by some deeper irrational obsession with her daughter, Janet decided to undergo a complete cosmetic makeover so that she could more closely emulate the person she most admires.

Janet has admitted to having blepharoplasty, a nose job, and lip implants. However, she also dropped from a size 14 to a size 6, which happens to be her daughter’s size. Most likely she also had a tummy tuck or liposuction to help achieve her new body.

The transformation did not stop there. Janet went from being a red head to a bleached blonde and got hair extensions so that her hair would be just like Jane’s. Janet and Jane also wear the same exact makeup and the same exact outfits. If you were to see them out on a Saturday night, they would not only look alike, they’d be dressed identically.

Surprisingly, Jane doesn’t seem to have a problem with her mother completely latching onto her life. She has been completely supportive throughout the process and seems to welcome her mother’s eccentric behavior.

What is even more alarming is that Janet Cunliffe is not the only woman who has taken these drastic measures to look exactly like her daughter. Several plastic surgeons have noted that over the past five years, they have witnessed a growing trend where mothers come in and ask to look exactly like their daughters.

It is one thing to opt for plastic surgery in order to regain a more youthful appearance. However, attempting to usurp your daughter’s life by getting a complete makeover to look exactly like her is somewhat inappropriate. As children become adults, they start their own lives. This is the natural order of the world. As hard as it may be for a parent to handle, it is important to let your child live his or her own life. Part of that is allowing your child to have her own identity that is separate from you.

If you desire facial plastic surgery for reasons other than to steal your daughter’s identity, please contact the Broadway Center for Plastic Surgery today to schedule your consultation. Dr. Broadway serves patients in the Denver, Colorado area.

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Work of Plastic Surgeons on Display at Art Expo

Friday, May 8th, 2009

As a musician, songwriter, and poet, I have been engaged in many discussions with other “artists” about what constitutes art. Some of these discussions have dealt mainly with traditional notions of art forms — painting, music, writing, theater, and dance. Other discussions have gotten more “out of the box,” evaluating the merits of expanding the notions of what constitutes art to include things such as teaching, psychology, and dentistry.

As someone who considers himself an artist, I have a fairly broad definition of the term. I am happy to acknowledge the fact that people can become artists in almost any realm, provided that they approach their discipline from the perspective of an artist. Of course, this is a very vague statement, but this blog is not really about defining what it means to be an artist or make art.

This blog is about a plastic surgeon who agrees with my philosophy that art can be found in almost any domain. In fact, he feels so strongly about the fact that his plastic surgery is art that he has put it on display at an art expo in TriBeCa, New York.

“I Am Art: An Expression of the Visual & Artistic Process of Plastic Surgery” is currently on display at Apexart in TriBeCa. The expo is being put on by Anthony C. Berlet, a New Jersey plastic surgeon who also has training as an architect and medical illustrator. The expo is displaying the work of Berlet and three other plastic surgeons: Antonio Cassissi, a pediatric plastic surgeon; Michael Cohen, a breast surgery specialist; and Scott Spiro, a body contouring specialist.

Berlet considers the human body to be his palette and the operating room to be his studio. The tools he uses to create his art include a variety of cutting, clamping, probing, and sewing devices, along with an array of digital and laser technologies.

Of course, Berlet and his colleagues generally create living art, and the people who most commonly appreciate their artistry are those men and women who have received a cosmetic makeover at their hands. However, for the purposes of this art expo, the four plastic surgeons have chosen to display their work in the form of photos and videos of their patients.

The images on display encompass every aspect of the process. You will see pictures and videos of patients before, during, and after their surgery. You will see images of people being stitched up and shots of the surgeons in action. Needless to say, you will need to have a strong tolerance for blood and guts to get through this expo.

Berlet has also chosen to make some distinctions as to which types of plastic surgery constitute art and which do not. For example, he does not consider a basic facelift to be art. According to Berlet, it is a “rote operation that can be taught to anyone.” Since it is very standard and requires no creativity, it is not real art.

On the other hand, procedures which are slightly more complex and provide the “artist” with a larger variety of options and manipulations should be considered art. For example, rhinoplasty
provides the necessary aesthetic background to be art. Each palette (nose) is unique and requires creative and imaginative decisions to properly shape it in a manner that will be both aesthetically pleasing and functional.

Furthermore, Berlet contends that as with other forms of art, plastic surgery presents the “artist” with a challenge of adhering to principles of taste and appropriateness. There is a fine line between doing too little, just enough, or too much to your patients. If a plastic surgeon errs on either side of what is just right, the results will be aesthetically unpleasing, much as with other more traditional works of art.

Of course, this is all very subjective, especially when you are trying to declare that some types of plastic surgery are art while others are not. Would you then consider certain procedures to be high art, for example the equivalent of “The God Father” while others are more examples of low art, possibly the equivalent of “Starship Troopers”?

Regardless of your thoughts on this matter, it makes for an excellent debate and a great discussion at a bar on a Friday night. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and have a strong enough stomach to handle it, you can still view the expo for a few more days.

If you are interested in plastic surgery in the New York City area, please contact Dr. George Lefkovits at Park Plaza Plastic Surgery today to schedule a consultation.

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Miss California's Breast Implants Paid for by Pageant

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Miss USA Pageant officials have recently confirmed that they paid for Carrie Prejean’s breast augmentation. Prejean was the Miss California contestant in the most recent Miss USA Pageant.

Prejean ultimately finished runner-up in the competition. She caused considerable controversy at the pageant when she openly stated her opposition to gay marriage during the question-and-answer portion of the competition. Many pageant insiders believe that her statements regarding gay marriage most likely cost her the Miss USA crown.

However, should she have even been runner-up under the circumstances? If this is a beauty pageant, shouldn’t the contestants be judged on their natural beauty and not a surgically enhanced body? Is it fair to the other contestants who are comfortable with their bodies and who compete without the aid of plastic surgery to award this woman second place?

It seems to me that this is somewhat analogous to the steroids controversy that has plagued Major League Baseball during the past decade. Many people have argued that baseball players who have taken these performance enhancing drugs are nothing more than cheaters. This has caused several players, most notably Mark McGuire, to be denied access into the Hall of Fame despite having the career statistics to justify induction.

If Barry Bonds is to be vilified for taking steroids, resulting in many people claiming that his career home run record is tainted, then shouldn’t we hold all competitors to similar standards? While breast implants are not illegal substances, they certainly constitute performance enhancement when it comes to a beauty pageant. If Barry Bonds gets an asterisk next to his home run record, then so should any beauty queen who wins after undergoing plastic surgery. Otherwise, you are penalizing all contestants who do not take similar measures.

If you need breast augmentation, liposuction, or a tummy tuck to have a strong showing in a swimsuit competition, then you most likely do not deserve to win the pageant. By awarding someone like Carrie Prejean second place, pageant officials are sending the wrong message to future contestants. They are essentially saying, “If you want to win, go see your local plastic surgeon.”

There is another question here which must be discussed. Is it ethical for the pageant to pay for her breast augmentation? Miss USA Pageant co-director Keith Lewis spoke about the pageant’s decision to fund her surgery. He claimed pageant officials felt that they wanted to help her have the confidence she needed to best portray herself at the competition. After talking with her following her victory at the Miss California competition, it became obvious to them that this operation would help her achieve the confidence she needed to compete at her best.

Personally, I think that self-confidence is a serious component of a person’s beauty. If a woman lacks that confidence within herself, it will most likely show through at the competition and hurt her chances of winning. But if she lacks that self-confidence, is she truly the most beautiful or deserving of the crown? Is it the place of the pageant to give her a shot of self-confidence when they did not help other contestants in a similar way?

In my opinion, this incident further taints a competition that to me is already suspect in nature. I am not a fan of beauty pageants, and I don’t watch them. I don’t think that they portray women in the way they deserve to be portrayed, and I think that in many ways, they perpetuate the beauty myths that fuel many of the self image issues that a lot of American women suffer from. The fact that pageant officials have made the unspoken statement that this is what is valued in a beauty pageant is abhorrent.

This is not meant to be a tirade on breast augmentation. There are many reasons why women choose to undergo the surgery, and for many of them, it does help their self-confidence. Getting breast implants is a highly personal decision which should not be made lightly. But it has no place in a beauty pageant, and the pageant officials should not authorize payment of a contestant’s surgery. That only makes a mockery of the entire competition, and to be honest, these pageants can’t afford to look any more superficial than they already are.

If you are interested in breast augmentation in the Los Angeles, California area, please contact Bray Plastic Surgery Medical Center, Inc. today to schedule a consultation with Dr. Bray.

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Barbie and Beauty: 50 Years as an Icon

Friday, May 1st, 2009

On March 9, 2009, Mattel’s Barbie fashion doll celebrated its 50th birthday. Since its introduction, the Barbie doll has become an icon of femininity. In particular, Barbie, as a fashion doll, helps to shape our notions about what makes a woman beautiful, a role for which she has suffered much criticism. Tall, slender, and sonsie, with long legs relative to her body, Barbie represents an ideal of attractiveness that many, ranging from feminists to health advocates to Islamic fundamentalists have critiqued as degrading, unhealthy, and decadent. In fact, as recently as this March, a West Virginia lawmaker proposed a ban on the sale of the doll in the state because it promotes the idea that “if you’re beautiful, you’re beautiful and you don’t have to be smart.” Mattel, of course, hopes to portray Barbie as a positive role model, whose 108 careers show that women can take on a variety of roles in life.

There is no doubt that Barbie is influential on little girls (and, to a lesser extent, little boys). In contrast to baby dolls, Barbie acts as an adult figure in a girl’s life, and the kinds of play in which a girl engages with Barbie helps her conceptualize future possibilities for life. But, despite the criticism it receives, Barbie is a passive figure that reflects social trends, rather than creating them. When Barbie was first introduced in her black-and-white swimsuit in 1959, it was the year of Gidget, soon to be followed by Where the Boys Are (1960), and Blue Hawaii (1961). All big box-office successes. When public support rallied behind the Apollo space missions, Miss Astronaut Barbie was introduced in 1965. And with the wave of patriotic militarism inspired by Desert Shield and Storm, and growing acceptance of women in military roles, Barbies were released wearing uniforms of officers in all four major branches of military service. Spiking political interest (including acceptance for women in leadership roles) among children led to the introduction of Barbie for president in 1992 (and re-released in 2004), and a presidential Barbie was released in 2000. Barbie even became a NASCAR driver in 1998 at the height of NASCAR’s nationwide popularity.

Is breast augmentation the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure because Barbie’s breasts were 38-D when today’s breast augmentation patients were children? No. Instead, Barbie’s figure, like her careers, is a product of our collective consciousness about what a woman should be. And, although we can expect that Barbie will probably undergo many changes in the future (including the recent change that made her facial features more like the now-squashed rival Bratz), we can expect that many of her characteristics will remain true to the core characteristics of the feminine body: large breasts, narrow waist, wide hips, and long, slender legs.

We are all subject to the ideals of our society, and failing to meet them can lead to low self-esteem and a lower quality of life. If you find that your appearance affects your self-image, schedule a plastic surgery consultation with New York plastic surgeon Dr. George Lefkovits today to learn how we might be able to help.

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