Plastic Surgery Business Sags Amid Recession, Celebrity Regrets
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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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First Posted: 12-18-08 04:56 PM | Updated: 01-18-09 05:12 AM