Celebrities are pulling back the curtain on their personal journeys with plastic surgery, candidly sharing the real stories behind their transformations. Stars like Jax Taylor, Megan Fox and Meghan Trainor have opened up about everything from nose jobs and breast augmentations to the reasons behind their choices, aiming to erase the stigma and champion confidence….
Even when celebrities or viewers call out the inaccuracies or insensitivity of these speculations, the doctors, nurses, and injectors making the comments can still benefit from the engagement and name recognition from viral posts. Not only is Betteridge’s post about Khloé Kardashian still up, he’s since moved on to posting about Emma Stone, whose appearance…
Something shifted in Hollywood this summer. When renowned plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow observed a steady stream of confessional Instagram and TikTok posts unfold, he wondered: Is the long-standing taboo toward celebrity plastic surgery finally fading? And why are they all getting so honest now? Dr. Dubrow, a board-certified plastic surgeon and reality TV show star,…
The clinicians administering tweakments are not immune to this beauty culture, says DeFino. “Clinicians are just as heavily influenced by beauty culture as the consumer is, and they bring those perceptions and beliefs to their patients.” Then, there’s the profit motive to consider. The more filler clinicians sell, the more they get paid, whether the…
Does anyone on dating apps not have a love-hate relationship with them? While they can connect us with romantic prospects we never would have met in the “real world,” they’re also kind of terrible for our mental health, not to mention addictive. And now we can add “bad for our self-image” to the list too,…
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000). On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out…