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Learning from celebrities:
The frightening thing about plastic surgery
-- injury to the soul |
| Now that I've talked about the ex-models,
the present “Hills tribe” wives who joined me at the New Otani, there is a book
that I would like to introduce. The title is “Celebrity Plastic Surgery”, an
interesting book written by Z Paul Laurens, a top New York plastic surgeon. Assumed
names are used for ordinary people, but the real names of actors and actresses
who have no doubt had plastic surgery appear, and their surgical ‘fixes' critiqued. |
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--“From my point
of view, Paul McCartney's face has reached a point of no return. Rather than
regaining a youthful appearance, he has a surprised face forever.”
--“Meg Ryan has a problem. One day, the shape of her lips suddenly
changed. I assumed that she injected some goretex. Even if her face is smiling,
her lips do not move.”
--“Sharon Stone has had too much botox, and the way she has been
injected is bad. Botox treatments depends on the knowledge of dissection. If
her cheeks become completely stiff, the result is a mask.”
…and on he goes. Is it really ok for him to go this far? His harsh critiques
make me begin to have doubts. However, he proudly boasts of being involved in
Catherine Hepburn's facial surgery in the past. Hepburn had encountered some
skin problems, which caused her to cut out part of her nose and cheek in order
to remove the nerves. Then, after that, the surgeon who fixed the horrid scars
was Dr. Laurens. After the surgery, problems kept resurfacing and Hepburn had
to repeat surgery, but she remained elegantly unchanged, open-hearted and extremely
kind despite all that happened. |
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Doctor Laurens is
proud of his profession, and isn't trying to deny plastic surgery. Because of
technological developments, complexes about the female body or scars from accidents
or illnesses can be fixed by good doctors. It is understandable that actresses
and models, ‘fix' their faces and bodies which are the tools of their profession
in order to maintain their uniqueness and status. If a woman can be happy through
that, I think that it's wonderful.
However, when you don't have enough knowledge nor information,
when you go under the knife of an inexperienced doctor at a bargain price, you
will suffer the consequences. While many plastic surgeons publish books for commercial
purposes, Doctor Laurens does not. He provides information and questions what
plastic surgery is for. |
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| In the past, when my body was going
through some problems, I had a female masseur give me regular acupressure massages.
This was in Azabu, where many women who worked in the night businesses visited.
Most of these women had had surgical ‘fixes', and one of the women who requested
that the masseur ‘came every day'. She had had some liposuction done on her lower
abdomen. Apparently in a liposuction, the muscles contract trying to protect
the part that has had fat sucked out. Thus, her need to massage the contracted
parts. But apparently this also involves a lot of pain, and the masseur said
that “watching her in pain like that convinced me never to get a liposuction!”
As I was getting massaged by this masseur, who I assume has quite some fat around
her abdomen too, I felt that we thought alike, and we vowed together never to
get a liposuction. |
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| People say that once you start to
get plastic surgery, it's impossible to stop. It not only has a potential to
injure your body, but also your soul. I think that plastic surgery should be
the final, final measure. Besides, if you live according to my sense of beauty,
you will be more beautiful and happier than if you get a laser treatment that
costs 100,000 yen each time. At age 50, you'd be longing for some fat around
your abdomen! |
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