Everyone always drools over the perks of fame — money, pimped out cars, sweet houses. But there are just as many pitfalls. Just ask Demi Lovato. the new X-Factor judge has battled an eating disorder, cutting, and been in a treatment facility for “emotional and physical issues.”
During the X-Factor panel at the Television Critics Association, Demi was open about how dangerous the pressures of fame can be.
I definitely take that into consideration when I judge or even just for instance my little sister is in the industry and I worry about her all the time. You can’t prevent anyone from going down the wrong road. If they’re going to have an eating disorder, they’re going to have an eating disorder.
While I appreciate her openness, I have to disagree. I think parents can prevent their daughters from developing eating disorders. It’s difficult, yes, but certainly not impossible. It starts by 1) understanding the signs and 2) paying close attention to your child’s behavior. Among the warnings signs: drastic changes in eating habits, change in personality, and, probably most telling, developing a negative body image.
In fact, addressing body image issues before they start could be a parent’s best defense against an eating disorder. our daughters are bombarded with photos of “perfect” stars and models who are grossly underweight. It’s impossible to meet that plastic surgery and Photoshop enhanced standard of beauty.
So ideally, we would start telling our girls early on that beauty takes on different sizes, shapes, colors, etc. that means talking openly about what words like “pretty”, “beautiful”, and “gorgeous” mean.
Saving our daughters from diseases like anorexia and bulimia also requires us to be aware of the things that are affecting and influencing them on a daily basis — not just play catch-up on the drive to school or during Saturday morning breakfast. And one thing I appreciate my mom always telling me, “You are beautiful, Ericka.” I may have always rolled my eyes each and every time, but it meant a lot. Protecting girls from a bad body image and eating disorders isn’t always easy, but parents have more power than Demi may think.
Do you think parents can help prevent a child’s eating disorder?
Heidi Montag, a former reality star on MTV’s The Hills, opened up in a new interview about fame and the unexpected effect it has had on her and husband Spencer Pratt’s life. She admits that the show and her infamous decision to get 10 plastic surgery operations in a single day have trapped her.
“I’ll never be able to be Heidi Montag, a normal person, again,” she admitted in the interview with Celebuzz, noting that what she did “…is something that you can’t undo and that’s what I didn’t realize. It’s a very different life. It’s like a lifelong sentence.”
Pratt and Montag have been living at her father’s Santa Barbara, Calif. estate, where she has had plenty of time to think about the impact The Hills and the plastic surgeries had on her life.
“I’ve been…getting re-grounded and getting back to a normal life and figuring out what my goals and aspirations are,” she says. She then admits that she and Pratt were never really the people that were portrayed in the hit MTV series.
“It was more an acting role than anything else,” she says. “But we played those character and when you start playing a character you kind of start to become more of a character.”
She says that she never thought that the “Hills Heidi” would “almost destroy me…I’m from really humble beginnings. I’ve never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you’re pretending to be.”
Montag also said that she is “really thankful” that the surgeries, which included a chin reduction and ear-pinnings, didn’t disfigure her body. “It could have been really disastrous.”
She had some advice for others, recommending that it isn’t a good idea to get so many procedures done.
“I lived and I learned — and I wouldn’t really recommend it for other people. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be going through it — physically, mentally, emotionally, recovering. But, I’m just glad it’s done and that everything healed so well.”
Montag revealed that she is working on two projects for next year, but wouldn’t give any details.
Manilow was born Barry Pincus; were the dreams perhaps a by-product of his Jewish heritage? “I don’t think so,” he replies. “I think it was books that I was reading around that time. I think it had to do with – I don’t know,” he sighs. “what does a concentration camp represent to me in my life? a place that you can’t get out of. a place where people are treating you awful. maybe that’s what I was going through.” he had a particularly jaundiced view of fame at that point?
“Yeah, well, this fame doesn’t seem to want to go away. Gotta deal with it.”
Is that why he still has therapy? what does it do for him?
“Well, I couldn’t have this conversation with you if I hadn’t done that. I would never have known myself, or my impact on others. That’s a real good one,” he chuckles. “Your impact on others. Everything you say and do is having an impact on others. And with me,” adds this Brooklyn boy with the lingering accent who tonight is playing a sold-out show at new York’s Radio City Music Hall, “I gotta lotta people that surround me.
“Everybody has to find out: who are you? what do you believe in? And what the f— did your mother do to you? ’cause everybody’s mother does something to them.”
To be fair, Edna Manilow (he took her maiden name as his stage name) visited more trauma on her only son than most mothers. After his father left them when he was two, she remarried but was emotionally unstable, became an alcoholic and made several suicide attempts.
“We all have stories,” he says charitably. “I had my own, but I had to do the work in order to get to the point where I can forgive these people. ’cause really they’re only people. but parents are not people to you. they are gods and goddesses. And it’s very difficult for you and I and the world to treat our parents as if they are people.”
Twenty years ago Manilow interviewed Edna for his autobiography, “ ’cause I always had trouble with her. And I took along a legal pad and I spent about five, six hours with her. And I said, ‘Tell me the story. Tell me your story. Tell me our story.’
“it was the first time I saw her as a woman who had a life. I knew a tiny little bit of this and that, but the dawn broke that afternoon. Oh, she’s not the goddess I thought she was. she was just a woman doing the best she could. I recommend it to anybody – interview your mother, ha ha,” laughs Manilow in his quiet, dry, papery laugh.
We’re on the second floor of the St Regis Hotel in midtown Manhattan – a faux-gold and royal-red Versailles for out-of-town tourists and conventioneers – in the Rambouillet suite. it seems an apt setting. At 68, the light-entertainment heavyweight manages to glide in while also taking baby steps, the legacy of recent hip operations. Manilow, long-limbed and rosy-cheeked, today wears smart black jeans, shiny black slip-ons, a black T-shirt and two shirts (one black, one black-and-red checked).
“Sneakers are not my thing,” he tries to smile. It’s always about presentation – “even off-duty. I’m pretty sloppy in the afternoons. but not in a hotel like this, it’s not appropriate.” No, we will not catch mr Manilow relaxing, as many artists do, in sweatpants, although he is aware, “a lotta people do that. I’m sure you’ve seen ’em.
“I respect my career, I respect the people I’m with, even the strangers. I want them to say nice things about who I am and what I do. And I take it seriously.”
Manilow has sold more than 80 million records. Mandy, his 1975 single and his first smash, was a hit almost by accident, a by-product of his producing relationship with his old friend Bette Middler. but, more than a singer or a performer, he always wanted to be a composer.
He was raised on musicals and wrote his first show, The Drunkard, aged 19; an “old temperance melodrama with original songs that still runs around. I get cheques from that, $25, $36. It’s kept me going.”
He put his passion and knowledge to good use on last year’s Radio 2 series They Write the Songs, ten in-depth profiles of Broadway legends such as Frank Loesser and Irving Berlin. Manilow researched, wrote and presented each hour-long episode. a critical and ratings hit – although he admits being annoyed at not receiving a Sony Awards nomination – it has been recommissioned for a second run later this year.
Today, he’s in the midst of a short run of concerts – he doesn’t tour any more; he misses home, and his dogs, too much – with a stripped back, downsized production. Forget the 19 musicians and four backing singers of his recent Vegas spectaculars. After last year’s London show with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, recorded and recently released as the 56th-ish album of his career, he’s gone back to basics – in a fashion. “There’s only six of us onstage. It’s more intimate. this is as close to a one-man show as I’ve ever gotten. It’s beautiful.”
I ask about the electronic cigarettes. Do they work? “they do for me, my band and my crew, all of us who hated smoking but couldn’t stop.” for the compulsive musician who learnt piano, via accordion, at the age of 13 and hasn’t stopped since, the passion for smoking is as much a motor, reflexive thing.
“As a musician I place it on the piano like I always do,” he says, miming the action, “and I’ve read articles on it, and they can’t find anything wrong with it.”
When did he have his last actual cigarette? “Well, I smoked for 30 years. I started when I was nine years old. I grew up in Brooklyn,” he says with a what can-you-do shrug. “And then I stopped about 15, 20 years ago. then I just started in Vegas and the band and I went down to a little club, and somebody offered me a cigarette. And I was back. Within a week I was back. not on a pack a day; ’cause when I was really smoking I was on three packs a day – non-filters! Oh yeah,” he says, lips almost twitching with pride, “I was a great smoker.”
Unfortunately for Manilow, his renewed love of smoking coincided with the onset of some health problems, which themselves were caused by work-related stress. in 2005 he had finally triumphed in a long-running legal battle to regain control of a Broadway musical that he had co-authored. Harmony was his pride and joy and the loss of the show to producers who didn’t know how to mount the production cut deep. he finally won the arbitration and secured the rights to his work, but at some cost. His partner went bankrupt, and Manilow has said he had to visit “a heart place”.
“that had nothing to do with Harmony,” he insists now. “although Harmony crashing was probably one of the most devastating things that has happened to me in my whole life. No, the heart thing, it’s called an atrial fibrillation. You think you’re gonna die. You’re not gonna die, but you think you are. Heart pounding like crazy. It’s like you have a flounder in your jacket. You think, ‘Well, any second now it’s just gonna explode.’
“I got used to it, but they’d rush me to the hospital every time. Give you the paddles – ‘clear!’ ’cause they have to stop it. If it goes on for a couple of days they have to stop it.” he now manages the condition with beta-blockers.
This seems like as good a time as any to ask a question on many people’s lips: has he had plastic surgery? he pauses only momentarily. “Look at this face,” he says, leaning back in his seat. “this is the face of a 68-year-old guy.”
Perhaps. but it is curiously contoured and unlined. has he really had no surgery?
“I did one, 15 years ago,” he allows. “And the press caught me coming out. And that was a very minor thing – I had a big cyst over here,” he says, pointing to his eye, “and another one over here,” he says, pointing to his cheek, “and they had to remove it. they didn’t know what it was. so I had to go to a plastic surgeon to do it. And he said, ‘You know, I can get rid of these things as long as I’m there,’ ” he says, pointing to the lines around his mouth. “but that was it. that was it.”
No more? “Yeah, and you know, when I was living in Bel Air all those years ago, a big thing was Botox and stuff like that. Everybody was doing it. And I did it a few times and I didn’t like it. but in the press, you know, terrible,” he says, almost exasperated, almost frowning. “I just seem to be the guy – I’m the Joan Rivers of the plastic surgery thing [because] of one picture and the Botox. but I do see those pictures that they think [show] that I’ve done loads of surgery. And I know why they think that, because those pictures are weird.”
Manilow has an explanation for that, though. He’s been suffering from chronic hip problems (“much worse than hip replacement”). for a decade he was in “terrible pain”. To give him relief, and to prevent him having to appear on stage or television shows hobbling – he would hate that – “they had to keep giving me steroid shots. And steroid shots blow you up. they blow your body up and, most of all, they blow your face up.
“so when I see those pictures with my face blown up, they attributed that to me and bad plastic surgery.
“I don’t know,” Manilow sighs. “And I’ve asked my publicist, ‘Can’t I just say something about this?’ ’cause this had nothing to do with plastic surgery. ’cause I’m not interested in it. but I see these pictures and it does look strange,” he concedes.
Last year, Manilow couldn’t take the pain any longer. His doctors investigated. between all our joints are gel sacs called bursae. they ease the movement of bone over bone. And the ones in Manilow’s hips were in bad shape. And when the surgeons “went in”, they discovered more problems. The muscles on his hips had snapped away from his hip bone – on both sides: “I blame it on 30 years of Copacabana, jigging around the stage.” a low chuckle rolls from his throat.
A planned two-hour surgery turned into seven hours on the operating table.
It was December 11 2011 – “I’ll never forget the date”. Doctors told him he’d be working within six weeks. “but at six weeks I couldn’t even get out of bed!” still, eight weeks on, old trouper that he is, he was rehearsing for his new show in a wheelchair. ten weeks on, he was back on stage in Omaha, Nebraska.
Of course he was. it – performing, music – is the only life Barry Manilow knows. And some of his tastes are to be found far from the world of cheese.
His favourite vocalist: Tom Waits. His favourite ever concert: Neil Young, in his acoustic guitar and harmonica years. Oddly, he’s very good friends with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, and he can’t get enough of Katy Perry. “Oh she’s just ear and eye candy,” he enthuses, clearly tickled. And he positively glows when he talks of his new-found enthusiasm for Marilyn Manson. The internet was aflutter earlier this year when a photograph appeared of Manilow, Manson and Lana Del Rey cosying up backstage at a German awards shows.
“We had a great conversation and really connected,” he nods.
Really? With the shock-rocker who collects Nazi memorabilia and has a foetus in a jar? “Yeah, well, I didn’t know about that part. but he’s pure theatre, and he’s musical too. I turned into a fan – I wrote him a gushy fan letter!”
He is also a fan of his two labradors, and his “really big” Palm Springs home.
“Sixty-four acres,” he says proudly. His property encompasses “a lot of mountain. It’s my shrine, it’s my church. People think I moved down there for the tennis, for the golf – I wouldn’t know the difference. I moved there for the peace – there’s so much noise in my life.” Plus, his Vegas residency is only a 25-minute commute (by private plane).
“I just need to get out of [the shows] and go where it’s quiet.” but beyond man’s best friend, who are Manilow’s nearest and dearest? on last year’s album 15 Minutes – about the perils of fame – there’s a song called Written in Stone. It’s about a singer’s doomed attempt to stay with the girlfriend he had before he was famous. Did he write that with reference to Susan Deixler, the high-school girlfriend he married at 21, or Linda Allen, the long-term partner whom he seemingly split from in the early Eighties?
“that was Linda. that happened.” His peer and fellow Brooklynite Jewish kid-done-good Neil Diamond also has experience of this – the family that couldn’t keep up, or that he couldn’t keep. he wrote a song about it: Solitary Man. has it ended up that way for Manilow?
“Hey,” comes that almost-smile, “I’m in a hotel room by myself. Sold out at Radio City, private plane – and this is 30-some odd years of hotel rooms by yourself. Drives you crazy. You better have somebody on the other end of the phone that treats you like you, not like all the other people that work for you [treat you].” And does Manilow? Or would he call himself happily single?
“Happily single?” he muses. “Yeah. Happily single,” he says, managing a full smile. “That’s good.” The warm and engaging and surprisingly un diva-like Manilow, it seems, has a robust sense of self. who he is. what he’s good at (singing in tune). what he’s not so good at (being a great vocalist).
There’s a melancholy about him – he repeatedly rues the all-conquering “Barry Manilow” image that goes before him, denying him true friendships. but there’s a joy too – he clearly adores his legions of adoring (mostly female) fans as much as they adore him.
But still, he’s had abuse upon critical abuse heaped on him, musically and personally, for decades. how does he deal with the stuff written about his sexuality? does he brush off those things?
“I am a private guy,” he replies evenly. “You can only come into my world if I invite you in. From the very beginning that was the rule. I learnt how to deal with the publicity/press thing. You just say, ‘I’m not interested in talking about [that].’ even the names of my dogs! they are my kids, my friends are my friends and my family, they are mine. That’s the only way I can survive. I have to keep that to me. I don’t want strangers knowing everything. If that happened, that would drive me crazy.”
Does he regret not having actual children? “Ah, no, I don’t. it was impossible. this insane world that I have and trying to be a father – I think I would have had to choose one or the other. but, ah, the choice never really happened anyway. Hey, look, the closest I get is raising dogs. whenever I get one of those little puppies, I stop everything. I do. And I give them a good eight or nine weeks just with me. I train them. My belief is that you do that and you get a great eight or nine years with a great dog.
“Now, you [apply] that to children – you have to give children all of you, for a long time. then you’ll get a great person but I’ve never had a great three or four years. but like I said,” he repeats, a little sadly, for the third time, “I never had the choice.” And with that the stick-thin songwriter ghosts out of the suite, electronic cigarettes to hand, ready to face another sold-out crowd all on his own.
Barry Manilow’s UK tour begins tomorrow at the O2, London. see manilowuk.com for details
This article also appeared in SEVEN magazine, free with the Sunday Telegraph. Follow SEVEN on Twitter, @TelegraphSeven
Kim Kardashian’s before and after plastic surgery pictures. as a man, this chick disgusts me… She started out as fame desperate girl, so her first husband bought her tons of surgery. her infamous Ray J sex tape made her scandalous and semi-famous. then she used a dumb athlete, Reggie Bush, to help smooth out her scandalous image. most of the media fell for it and featured her in magazines. as her image cleaned up she upped the surgery and continued to exploit self-hating black men for their fame to put her on a pedestal. once she really begin to build her brand she dropped the ‘urban guys’ and has settled down with a classic all-american white guy, NBA player Kris Humphries (if you’re majority white, you’re white). Hopefully she’ll now deflate her paid for bottom and go back to her natural god-given backside…. only time will tell. (UPDATE: she used yet ANOTHER athlete for their money and credibility to up her image, and not even 3 months later she’s divorced. Maybe if she tries dating a 100% nonblack guy she’ll have better luck. as of now it looks like she’s still trying to be a black girl and continues to inflate her butt, and she lies about it while chasing black men, I pray one day she is secure enough to “wear” her natural body again and date her own kind). UPDATE (11/12/11): Yessss, FINALLY her ex-husband reveals the truth. She uses spanx and buttpads. Thanks for the confirmation Kris, but honestly anyone with at least a pea for a brain already knew. PS- “x-rays …
Last night, J Hud took it back to the stage that birthed her career to perform she and Ne-Yo’s new soundtrack single ‘think Like A Man’. While Ne-Yo showed up looking great as he swagged it out across the stage, Jennifer worked through the performance in a leather skirt with some sickening hair, showing off her diva attitude and a few dance moves.
Sidebar: next week, Jennifer is expected to be present at the first proceedings of the trial of William Balfour, her former brother-in-law who was charged with the murder of her mother, brother and nephew. The proceedings will take place in Chicago and although it’s not guaranteed that she will take the stand, Jennifer is one of 300 potential witnesses for the case. her celebrity was a huge consideration when the jurors were selected, as to not have them swayed either way by their opinions on Jennifer and her fame.
If she were to take the stand, it would be one of the first times she’s spoken out about the situation.
as the pay and prestige of family physicians has declined, family medicine as a discipline has transformed into a mission field.
"when I was in medical school and I decided to go into family medicine, I think a lot of people were like, ‘Why?’" said Dee Ann Stults, a 31-year-old family physician who works at a clinic for low-income patients in Wichita, Kan. "I think primary care is sort of considered lesser than in some ways."
Stults says her decision to enter family medicine was God-led: "when I first went into medicine I considered it something that was going to lead me into a mission field for Christ. I never really thought of it as, ‘This will get me fame and fortune or whatever.’"
Even if you’re not crazy about Heidi Montag, it’s hard not to feel concerned for her these days. The 23-year-old perpetual spotlight seeker just got 10 (yep, really) plastic surgeries that have rendered her nearly unrecognizable. in interviews, she’s made glib statements about wanting “to go bigger on my boobs for [Spencer]” and picking out her various “new” body parts by looking at Playboy back issues. Then again, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Heidi seek attention by saying outrageous things.
At 23, she has had at least 12 rounds of plastic surgery. and while I’m all for people deciding what’s right for them, I can’t help but cringe at the nonchalant way she regards the procedures. if a friend of mine were this unhappy with her face and body, I’d be encouraging her to start therapy faster than you can say Dr. Phil. As it stands, we wind up gawking at Heidi, clucking at how she’s “beyond obsessed” — when it’s actually pretty sad commentary on fame and body image. “Nobody ages perfectly, so I plan to keep using surgery to make me as perfect as I can be,” Heidi told People. “Because, for me, the surgery is always so rewarding.”
Lana Del Rey is a native new York singer-songstress poised to be the next globally welcomed chart topping artist, already tasting success with her debut single entitled “Video Games”. but its another aspect of the singer that is garnering the most attention… her lips. See the before and after picture below.Lana Del Rey Before And After Plastic Surgery?amid her recent skyrocket to fame, which has cast the 25 year-old directly into the media spotlight, there has been an abundance of chatter regarding Lana’s exceptionally large lips.Plastic surgery is a word that is being thrown around a lot, but Ms. Del Rey’s has swiftly shot-down such allegations, insisting she “haven’t had anything done at all”.in a recent interview with Complex, Del Rey said…I haven’t had anything done at all. Anyone who’s known me will tell you that. I’m sorry, but I was living in a trailer park for a few years. I didn’t even have enough money to buy Cocoa Puffs. It’s not like I crawled from under the bridge and got surgery. I’m quite pouty. That’s just how I look when I sing.interesting logic indeed, however in many cases its after a person becomes famous when they decide to opt for plastic surgery. And if it only “looks like that when I sing”, she must be a certified ventriloquist.In our best estimation, Lana “lips” Del Rey is the recipient of a non-surgical lip augmentation procedure, commonly referred to as lip injections (collagen, restylane, artecoll). There is of course a slight possibility that her lip inflation could be the result of lip implants (goretex, softform, fat grafting), which can sometimes bare a similar appearance.And while Lana Del Rey vehemently denies getting plastic surgery, its awfully hard to argue with those pesky before and after photos. Other have mentioned a possible nose job as well, but that procedure is still highly debatable until we see a better ‘before’ photo. Checkout the current comparison and leave some feedback below.
Natural advocate: Scherri-Lee Biggs says Jennifer Hawkins has gone “too far” in her quest for beauty. Picture: Darren McNamara Source: Herald Sun
MIAOW! If you thought the world of fashion couldn't get any cattier, think again.
Miss Universe Australia Scherri-Lee Biggs has dug her nails into the sensitive skin of former winner Jennifer Hawkins, claiming her predecessor has had too much plastic surgery.
Hawkins, who is one of the nation’s highest-paid models, has repeatedly denied suggestions she has gone under the knife since she shot to fame by winning the beauty contest in 2004.
On the eve of her departure for the pageant in Brazil, 20-year-old Biggs accused Hawkins of going too far in her quest for perfection.
"There’s a lot more to beauty before considering plastic surgery. Jen has gone that little bit too far," she said.
"I’m not against it but I do believe in natural beauty.
But Hawkins fended off speculation last week she’d undergone cosmetic work after setting tongues wagging at Myer’s annual spring/summer collection showings.
While Hawkins was yesterday unavailable to comment on Biggs’ claims, the 27-year-old has previously laughed at suggestions she has gone under the knife and put her appearance down to a diet and fitness regime.
"I just eat healthy and I exercise a lot," she has said previously.
"I think a lot of women get better with age – they’re more confident within themselves and know who they are as a woman."
Biggs, who flies out of Australia today, said there was increasing pressure on young women to undergo cosmetic surgery.
"there is that sort of pressure. you really need to consider why you’re getting it done, whether it will better your life," she said.
Biggs will take on 88 other hopefuls in the international miss Universe final on September 12.
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Nearly 1.1 million men had some type of cosmetic procedure done last year.
What does Kim Kardashian, Heidi Montag, and Nicki Minaj all have in common? Butt implants (obviously some bigger than others, lol), breast implants, nose jobs, lipo, and the list for Heidi and Kim goes on and on and on. so clearly, plastic surgery is relatively common for women, especially when they're trying to be famous, but what about men? Do guys ever go under the knife when they're on the search for fame? well, that's what I've wondered from time to time. and after being sent numerous emails frin the PR offices of plastic surgeons looking to be featured on The Urban Gentleman, I decided hey, why not ask them a bit more about the topic of men and plastic surgery.
The bulk of men may not be looking to pay big bucks for a bigger backside like Kim K. did, but they are paying for other things… a Manhattan plastic surgeon gave us the rundown:
Average number of men who get plastic surgery: 500,000+ every year. "in an average year some thirty-five percent of my patients are male (and that number is increasing). they span all ages and all professions. this is a very large population and represents a cross section of men of a certain socio-economic group in a position to consider cosmetic surgery."
5 popular / common procedures: Microsuction of double chin and jowls, liposuction of love handles and belly, removal of enlarged breasts (gynecomastia), removal of lower eyelid bags (blepharoplasty), nose-reshaping (rhinoplasty)
Average costs of those 5 procedures: Between $ 5,000 and 10,000 depending on what is necessary. Costs can be lower depending on the doctor and location (it's possible to get liposuction for just over $ 2,000 in some states)
Other common cosmetic procedures for men (average costs): Laser hair removal ($ 400), hair transplant ($ 4700), botox ($ 300), microdermabrasion– removes dead skin ($ 180), chemical peel ($ 600), skin-resurfacing– removes damaged or wrinkled skin layer by layer ($ 1900).
This guy underwent otoplasty– pinning back of the ears.
Top cities where men receive plastic surgery: "new York City, L.a.,and Miami." he also stated that it's more popular in the south than the north, including Texas, buuut I don't know about that. Overall cities that are wealthier and put alot of focus on physical traits have high numbers of men getting some type of procedure.
According to the ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons), the number of men who have had minimally-invasive procedures has gone up almost 50% over the last 10 years. the most popular minimally-invasive procedures are Botox, filler injections, and laser skin resurfacing treatments.
Most difficult and time-consuming popular men's plastic surgery procedures: "Hardest surgery to do well is nasal refinement, which require a great deal of aesthetic judgment, skill and most of all, experience. the most time consuming is body surgery to tighten skin after significant weight loss. this often involves extensive skin removal and 'tailoring'.”
LL cool J is rumored to have had work done… I doubt it though. (more below)
List of male celebrities with plastic surgery: this particular Manhattan plastic surgeon didn't want to reveal the names of his male patients, but said it included prominent government officials, media moguls, successful businessmen, and entertainers of all sorts. That was waaaay too vague, so I googled it (of course).
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Side note: besides a handful of rock stars, bodybuilders/athletes, and reality TV personalities. I really don't tend to notice when male celebrities get work done– I guess because entertainment shows and blogs don't cover it like they do when women get work done. Anytime a Hollywood starlette gets work done the tabloids are all over it, whether it's one procedure like Scarlett Johansson's, Beyonce's, and Halle Berry's nose job, or a huge list of procedures like plastic surgery addicts Heidi M. and Kim K. they still talk and joke about Julia Roberts lip job to this day and she got that decades ago. Michael Jackson (may he rest in peace) is the only male celebrity who seemed to be repeatedly outed every time he got work done (and that's probably because he got so many nose jobs).
But anyway, according to a google search (of relatively obvious 'before and after' photos) the following male celebrities have undergone some type of plastic surgery or atleast some type of cosmetic procedure (like Botox): Bruce Jenner, Mickey Rourke, Ray Liotta, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas, several of the Jackson brothers, Carrot Top, Gene Simmons, Kenny Rogers, Rupert Everett, Gary Busey, Burt Reynolds, Barry Manilow, Pete Burns, Marilyn Manson, Arnold Schwarzenegger… and there were tons more rock star legends who have been rumored to have had plastic surgery, but the before and after photos I saw showed absolutely no differences except for aging, so I left those names off the list. On a very interesting note, there are also small rumors of Lionel Richie (small cosmetic procedures), Smokey Robinson (facelift), LL cool J (nose and abs), and even Pharrell getting plastic surgery… but those all seem to be a bit of a stretch to me, especially regarding Pharrell– the only procedures I think he's had are tattoo removals– and that doesn't even count (I think in those cases people confused makeup and photoshop with actually getting work done). There's an ever-growing list of male celebs that receive Botox from time to time, Simon Cowell and Patrick Dempsey are among the few that have admitted to it.
Grey's Anatomy star, Patrick Dempsey
Sylvester Stalone and few of his buddies from the movie Expendables have received some type of cosmetic procedure (Mickey and Arnold)
Props-Comedian Carrot Top before and after plastic surgery
There are definitely more male celebrities that have undergone evasive plastic surgery procedures than listed on the web, but the changes are usually minor or they have the procedure done much later in life (when they're no longer in the spotlight)– so the media doesn't notice or doesn't care.
Ab implants / Ab Etching before and after
Another 'not as talked to subject' in the world of plastic surgery for men are muscle implants and ab etching. I didn't really want to show the video below because there's relentless plugging of the doctor featured, but it's the most informative video about ab-etching I could find on youtube:
So, yes men get plastic surgery. but men paying for ab implants, muscle implants, or getting nose jobs to get famous isn't happening at the rate women are paying for boobs, booties, and lips to be the next reality star– which is a good thing. Now I just wonder when women will learn that real men prefer them 100% plastic surgery free. we want an accurate representation of how our kids will look if we decide to procreate with you– not a modified edition.
With all that said, if there's any accuracy to the latest Adam Sandler movie I saw the other day, it's now possible to pay for a bigger, well– wanker, johnson, tallywacker… you know what I mean. I didn't really feel comfortable diving too deep into that particular arena of plastic surgery, but I briefly read that they've fixed alot the kinks the surgery had, so now the number of men receiving penile enlargements has increased over the past couple years. and in time, they may be as common as boob jobs– who knows? one thing I do know is that even though it's not talked about as much, the world of plastic surgery for men is definitely expanding, and with that expansion comes more and more men willing to go under the knife to look the way they want the world to see them.
DISCLAIMER: we are not in anyway endorsing plastic or cosmetic surgery. we fully support, and 100% endorse both men and women (especially women) being all natural, and not undergoing plastic or cosmetic surgery unless you were involved in an accident or suffer from an illness or disease that requires it. That said, if you do choose to undergo plastic or cosmetic surgery please do the proper research before making such a huge decision.
Kim Kardashian’s before and after plastic surgery pictures. as a man, this chick disgusts me… She started out as fame desperate girl, so her first husband bought her tons of surgery. her infamous Ray J sex tape made her scandalous and semi-famous. then she used a dumb athlete, Reggie Bush, to help smooth out her scandalous image. most of the media fell for it and featured her in magazines. as her image cleaned up she upped the surgery and continued to exploit self-hating black men for their fame to put her on a pedestal. once she really begin to build her brand she dropped the ‘urban guys’ and has settled down with a classic all-american white guy, NBA player Kris Humphries (if you’re majority white, you’re white). Hopefully she’ll now deflate her paid for bottom and go back to her natural god-given backside…. only time will tell. (UPDATE: she used yet ANOTHER athlete for their money and credibility to up her image, and not even 3 months later she’s divorced. Maybe if she tries dating a 100% nonblack guy she’ll have better luck. as of now it looks like she’s still trying to be a black girl and continues to inflate her butt, and she lies about it while chasing black men, I pray one day she is secure enough to “wear” her natural body again and date her own kind). UPDATE (11/12/11): Yessss, FINALLY her ex-husband reveals the truth. She uses spanx and buttpads. Thanks for the confirmation Kris, but honestly anyone with at least a pea for a brain already knew. PS- “x-rays …
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