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

[indypete]

Article? What article?

[BabsfromKansas]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3b1e3750e2/99-words-for-boobs-from-amcc

[indypete]

Thank you.... But the computer fell off my lap twice.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Cheech wiouth Chong is it?

[norsegirl]

"In Orange County, where plastic surgery is a part of their culture, doctors told me business is down 30 to 40 percent." This makes me sick. I am so tired of this way of living that goes on in Southern California. Women are rediculous here, they put on their $200 jeans and $200 t-shirts just to pick the kiddies up from pre-school in clown face and high heels! There are a lot of us "real moms" who are so fed up with this culture, or, lack there of. Here's a clue for you plastic women - fake LOOKS fake!

[hortonhearsawho2]

the doctors office just called, your in for tomorrow..­.just kidding now.

[indypete]

Foolhardy, dude, very foolhardy.­... That purse of hers could easily have a half-brick in it!

[MarsAmbassador]

Don't be a hater just because you're plain and or ugly. Live and let live. Or is that not the basis of a free society?

Cicero's Six Mistakes Of Man (you may want to pay attention to #6):
1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

[JeepRover]

I'm really only going to miss the boobies-but there is still porn

[wadenelson1]

Do not exceed maximum inflation pressure.

[Leslib]

I'm real tired of the "fish pucker" mouth thing anyway. That was over for everyone in the real world before it got started good. Those women look stupid with their obvious lip bumps and over-plumpage. Some have passed the caricature stage. Sad.

[camper65]

Anecdotal evidence? You wrote this article based on ANECDOTAL Evidence? Please! I've heard anecdotal evidence from a reliable plastic surgeon friend in L.A. that minor corrective surgery has more than doubled since the introduction of HD television! It shows every wrinkle, every blemish, even the pores on the face. Check your sources.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

WHAT HAPPENDED 2 WORKING OUT WITH FREE WEIGHTS?

[Jethro13]

don;t know who it is but NICE RACK!

[Sammy00400]

I'll second that.

[JeepRover]

Pam Anderson. I'd bet your left nut

[Jackalheadedgod]

The sound of another bubble bursting.

Cheers,
Jack

[seatech1]

Fine with me. I never liked fake boobs anyway. I wonder how long Huffpo will have that closeup picture of the fake breasts on their main page. Seems like they keep risque' pictures up much longer than other ones.

[adsandiego]

'I never liked fake boobs anyway'

did you take them out?

[Fein]

When are American Women going to learn, 'if us guys want to cuddle up to plastic, we'd just buy a
love doll. The upkeep's much cheaper.'

[leochar18]

I think Men like variety anyway, let's get back to au natural! That way those who are naturally endowed don't have to feel like they are competing with ballons stuck on stick figure bodies. What are all these women going to do when it's time to replace them in 7 years or if they get an infection? Implants are a life long financial commitment, Dr. 90210 better be open to do some serious pro-bono work!

[yogajan]

Maybe by that time, he (Dr. 90210) will have passed in boards. Why anyone would go to a plastic surgeon who is not board certified amazes me. The public has been so duped by PR people who are well paid to get the names of marginally good surgeons out there.

[Telemachus]

Nice photo of the spokesboob. Kept my interest up.

[jazzycafe]

Hey Huffpo - get the big boobs off the front page. It's distracting. Also it's tacky - in an Enquirer kind of way.