Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery by Alex Kuczynski
The book all the magazines are talking about ‘ A podiatrist shortens toes so her clients can fit into Jimmy Choos, and a lawyer routinely lies to a succession of doctors to feed his Botox habit. New York Times reporter Kuczynski has attitude to spare as she outs Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman as probable Botox users, and assesses the “traumatized” naked body of a litigator who’s showing off the results of a total body lift after gastric-bypass surgery: “to be honest and brutal and bitchy, she doesn’t look that great.” A canny and witty guide to the excesses of a conformist society with more money than sense, Kuczynski discloses her own beauty addiction in the form of Botox, collagen derived from cadavers and fetal foreskin cells, liposuction, eyelid lifts and eventually a botched Restylane treatment that left her housebound for days with a disfigured lip’. Ouch!
$16 http://www.amazon.com Publisher: Doubleday (October 17, 2006)
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