Plastic Surgery Business Sags Amid Recession, Celebrity Regrets

The New York Times reports that plastic surgery is on the decline...especially in regions where it's most enjoyed.

"In Orange County, where plastic surgery is a part of their culture, doctors told me business is down 30 to 40 percent," said Thomas Seery, the president of realself.com, a site devoted to reviewing vanity-medicine procedures. "That tells me something is fundamentally changing there."

Even a few celebrities, those early adopters of appearance technology, have started to deride the plasticized look that sometimes accompanies cosmetic interventions, a harbinger perhaps of a new climate of restraint in which overt augmentation seems like bad taste.

Call it a Botox backlash. Last month in interviews with different magazines, the actresses Courteney Cox and Lisa Rinna said that they did not like the look of excessive facial injections.

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Comments

[HoraceOvidson]

Its always been a boom or bust business.

[historyprof]

Hopefully, some of these plastic surgeons who now have time on their hands will volunteer to give free surgery to children born with clef palates or other disfiguring diseases.

[FdeBear]

My thoughts exactly.

[mamacat]

If there is an ever-so-small silver lining to the current economic mess, it is that this despicable plastic-surgery industry is also suffering, and that fewer young women are mutilating their bodies in the name of fashion.

[retrorio]

The breast implant industry has been hit hard by inflation?

[lacitepq]

more like deflation.

[Rosey]

Biz sags....hmmm? Not in this pic. Who on earth would want such phony-looking boobs?

[michaelescher]

Do you like boobs a lot?

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[Eric-in-the-Red]

I heard some plastic surgeons were having two for one sales on breast enhancements.

[13lotus]

seriously? oh, i know all the orange county doctors' wives are just so upset that they cannot get the lip and boob upgrade. really, i am empathetic. really.

[concernvoter]

It appears that the BOOBS and the BRA was in an altercation. Now everything is sagging.

[redneckliberalpostbush]

don't worry, US men are so close now to plastic, they will just get some of the awesome blow up dolls available and stay with the internet porn

[historyrepeating2]

What???

[redneckliberalpostbush]

omg, how will all the US greed driven physicians going to make a living? omg, omg, omg! They may have to become health care CEOs now to get the huge bucks. God forbid they care for those slimey uninsured "self pay" scum or the elderly people on Medicare! omg no $$$ there and that would mean no beamers, no country clubs omg omg omg

[cayuse]

Like the 30's the rich drove Duesenbergs.

Why have a platic lover, when you can have the real thing for free

People get hungry they do anything to survive. I did work in Iraq, right?

[mamacat]

Plastic surgery should be used to help people with real problems, not people with more dollars than sense.

[MarsAmbassador]

I think people that make their own money can do with it what they please. Is that not the basis of a free society?

[Haditup2here]

If this was a free society, people would be able to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. However, we live in a hypocritical bureaucratic society where health insurance are willing to subsidize 80 yr old men for viagra but won't pay for MRT testing to test people for food intolerance because it is considered "investigative".

[indypete]

I just remembered... I need somewhere to park my bicycle.

[BabsfromKansas]

need a tissue?

[hortonhearsawho2]

Identical twins?

[indypete]

Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas.