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January 16, 2002

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And it's not just the gals. Increasingly, plastic surgeons are aiding guys

lacking in the buff department. The result: Some of those pumped-up

Hollywood chests and well-turned manly calves you see onscreen owe more to

the far reaches of medicine than to the gym. And both work

wonderfully--provided you look but don't touch.

Plastic surgeons even play a role for those Hollywood hunks who owe their

multimillion-dollar physiques to a massive ingestion of steroids rather

than to implants. They find themselves correcting some of the more

miserable side effects of that drug use.

One international male action star was having trouble performing his

marital duties, thanks to the massive amount of hormones he'd downed over

the years.

A team of plastic surgeons in one of California's most prestigious

hospitals fitted him with a penile implant, and their success is attested

to by the actor's growing family.

Sometimes, though, the problem is simply one of the locker-room ego. For

those who feel their sexual equipment is a tad inadequate, a whole slew of

plastic surgeons are prepared to enlarge man's best friend with fat

injections taken from other parts of his body.

" The problem is, it looks okay at the beginning, " said a surgeon who

claims to have performed the surgery on many Hollywood names, " but when

gravity takes over, the fat tends to slide to the bottom, so you end up

with a bell on the end of your penis. "

For sheer lunacy, it would be hard to top the European actress who comes

into town once a year to have her entire body done.

" She puts herself through 10 to 15 hours of surgery--at $50,000 a time, "

says a Beverly Hills doctor. " They cut her along the front, down the arms,

down both sides, down the back, across the pelvis, and then they tighten

the whole lot up like taking in a suit of clothes.

" Only, the last time they did it they took too much skin from the inside

of her arms, and now she can't fold her arms to her side. She's running

around like a chicken. "

ÝPart 1: The Good

http://www.eonline.com/Features/Specials/Surgery/

The good, the bad and the ugly of celebrity plastic surgery--first, the

good!

by Sally Ogle and Ivor

First of three parts

When the biggest stars on the planet gathered recently for that annual

rite of teary acceptance speeches and over-the-top gowns known as the

s, the rapt TV audience included every plastic surgeon worth his

scalpel from Manhattan to Beverly Hills.

And why not? With their carefully crafted handiwork on display to more

than a billion people worldwide, the Academy Awards are also the doctors'

big night. Not that they're ever likely to be acknowledged from the stage

by those famous faces...

One plastic surgeon, who has raised more famous faces than the elevator at

CAA, sits in his elegant pastel-hued Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills,

smiling wryly. " God forbid anybody should see my charts, " he says. " When

you see what they looked like before we operated! But they're happy. Their

careers are going well. Whether I had something to do with that I don't

know. But I think I did. "

Around Hollywood, it's easier to count the people who have never gone near

the knife than those for whom it's a ritual. All over town, discreet

little hotels advertise their availability for plastic surgery

recovery--back entrances, registration under false names, round-the-clock

nursing and no questions asked.

At the infamous Four Seasons Hotel bar in Beverly Hills, the hot agents

wonder about whether Demi earns more per picture than

--while the plastic surgeons at the next table prefer to focus on

Demi's nose. " She had it done right after her Vanity Fair cover, " says

one. " Hers was the rounded kind that doesn't age well, " sniffed another.

" It's surprising she made it as big as she did with the original. "

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ÝPart 2: The Bad

Hollywood stars wanting to refresh, rejuvenate and just plain reinvent

have more plastic surgeons per square mile at their disposal than any

other population in the world. So why do so many of them have such lousy

plastic surgery?

Consider the case of Faye Dunaway, whose " deep-plane " face-lift makes her

look like an entirely different woman than the one who wowed us in Bonnie

and Clyde and Chinatown.

" She had these wonderful hooded eyes that made her face just jump right

off the screen, " says a Hollywood producer. " Now, she's erased her own

face. "

Or Tyler , who appeared recently in a TV movie with her old

sparring partner Ed Asner. He looked like Lou Grant 15 years on. She

looked embalmed. " She's on an unofficial plastic surgery blacklist, " one

surgeon confesses. " I've been told not to touch her. She doesn't know when

to stop. She's a little crazy with this stuff. "

And Carol Burnett's face--once mobile and elastic and funny--now looks

caved in and frozen and has virtually destroyed her TV career. " Could you

laugh at a woman with a face like that? " asks a former colleague.

Even having a husband in the business doesn't guarantee good results. It

may even work in reverse. Principal--married to top-flight

surgeon Harry Glassman--is rapidly acquiring that Steppes of Russia wide,

peasant-faced look that comes with lifts that go too deep and pull too

hard.

The fact is, because money is no object, because their profession demands

they look good and perpetually young, movie and TV personalities are

particularly susceptible to the more-is-better syndrome.

" Plastic surgery improves your eyesight, " says Dr. na Scheibner.

" You get something done, and suddenly you're looking in the mirror every

five minutes. You see imperfections nobody else can. I had one actress who

came to me with an absolutely flawless face. I told her there wasn't a

thing I could do for her, and she got mad and went around town

bad-mouthing me. "

Celebrities are particularly susceptible to becoming plastic-surgery

addicts, says Dr. Pam Lipkin. " These are not the world's most secure

people. When you have cosmetic surgery and it goes well, there's a

tremendous psychological reassurance. The seratonin must surge. And when

there isn't any economic barrier to it, the more you have, the more you

want. "

The physicians who serve celebrities can also tend to be star-struck and

get carried away with the opportunity to play god on a famous face. " When

you see a famous face walk into your office, " says New York's Dr.

Cattani, " it's a great temptation to swing for the fences. You want to

show off what you can do, so you tend to push the envelope a bit too far. "

And they're starting to come in younger and younger. At 23, Tori Spelling

already has that " What age is she, anyway? " look that comes from too much

too soon.

" I've worked with her several times, " says a Hollywood photo editor, " and

her breasts have changed size twice. She also had her nose done, and cheek

and chin implants. I guess that family really believes in

self-improvement. "

BH, 90210's Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is sporting enlarged breasts these

days. So is former Melrose Place resident Josie Bissett. " Josie's look

terrible, " says one insider, " but not nearly as bad as Pamela

Lee's. Hers got even bigger when she was pregnant. "

No surprise that boobs are big in Hollywood, and enlarging them is big

business. Witness --the former Playmate of the Year. As

she ballooned in size, so did her implanted breasts, until she ended up

looking like a zeppelin.

Likewise Dolly Parton, and on a smaller scale, Griffith, who

changed her breast size while filming Bonfire of the Vanities so that her

wardrobe had to be completely redone mid-film.

But some of the worst plastic surgery examples are on the fraternal side.

It's harder to achieve a good face-lift result on a male face--heavier,

hair-bearing skin doesn't drape as well, and shorter hairstyles leave few

places to hide incisions.

Which is why so many Hollywood men are developing the Liberace

look--smooth, shiny and with about as much character as a balloon.

Take Burt Reynolds, who can't seem to stop tinkering; he had a couple of

face-lifts, and a brow-lift that stretched his eyebrows to places they'd

never been. Reynolds has exchanged his rakish good-ol'-boy charm for a

look that can only be described as " early transvestite. "

Or Jack Lemmon, who lifted away his wonderfully expressive face and now

looks like an aging bassett hound with hang-dog eyes. Or Tom , whose

face looks like a beach ball with hair.

But the daddy of the plastic-surgery junkies--if you will, the poster boy

of plastic-surgery abuse--is, of course, --who, ironically,

can afford the very best. Today, the amazed talk around Hollywood is that

he may be sporting a prosthesis where his nose used to be--hence his

penchant for wearing a surgical mask.

" There were a lot of people involved with that nose, " one surgeon says.

" One doctor would tell him, 'No,' and he'd say, 'All right then, I'll go

somewhere else.' And then he accuses you of abandoning him. Natural

plastic surgery means making an apple a shinier apple. had an

apple he wanted made into an orange. "

Then there's another nip-n-tuck , . Though he

certainly has not gone to extremes, many agree his " improvements "

are not up to snuff.

" He's a good example of bad male plastic surgery, " contends Pam Lipkin.

" They took too much fat out of his neck, so his jaw is hanging. They

overdid his eyes, so they look round and strange. And he's had a bad

face-lift. "

, 51, resorted to surgery earlier than most male stars. Generally,

it's the women who get knife-happy in their forties. The men can pretty

much leave things as nature intended until they hit the mid-fifties.

But , no doubt the result of his earlier wilder ways, was showing

the signs of slippage early.

" He just doesn't take care of his body, " scolds his eightysomething

father, Kirk, who took his own chiseled features to the plastic surgeon as

soon as the wrinkles started appearing.

http://www.eonline.com/Features/Specials/Surgery3/

The good, the bad and the ugly of celebrity plastic surgery--now, lip

lizards, the really ugly

by Sally Ogle and Ivor

Third of three parts

" It's the nature of existence in the latter part of the 20th century, "

says dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein, the man who brought the collagened

lip to America and is responsible for 's whiter shade of

pale, " if you want something done and you happen to be famous, you'll get

it done. "

Indeed, for Hollywood stars who don't understand the meaning of the word

no, plastic surgery is no longer medicine. It has become a fashion

accessory--and like any fashion it can get a mite ridiculous.

Witness the trendy Hollywood fat lip. Produced by injecting collagen into

the lips every three months or so, the look is supposed to give a more

youthful visage to women whose mouths naturally look smaller as they age

and the lip vermilion fades.

Since it was introduced to this country by Dr. Klein for Barbara Hershey's

character in Beaches, it's become too much of a good thing. Actresses,

models and just plain wannabes are running around town looking as if

they've inflated their kissers with a bicycle pump.

Tyler 's mouth looks bigger every time she poses for the camera.

Anne Archer recently starred in a TV movie in which she played passionate

love scenes with twentysomething actor Neil (Doogie Howser,

M.D.). Many would agree Archer needed help, but she had too much of a good

thing and ended up with a mouth that looked like it could swallow young

Mr. whole.

In her commercials for Revlon, Griffith displays a mouth suffering

from a serious case of overinflation. Even the beautiful Elle Macpherson

was recently hauled into the office of a Manhattan plastic surgeon for lip

enlargement.

" She didn't want it, " reports a doctor, " but the friend who brought

her--another top model--told her, 'Elle, everyone's doing it . You don't

want to lose your edge.' "

One actress in New York went to greater lengths. She decided she wanted

permanently bigger lips--she had a doctor cut around her mouth as if she

were a picture and restitch her lips farther out on her face.

Dr. Pam Lipkin, who practices in Manhattan and Los Angeles, is now trying

to repair the damage. " There was too much tension, so it's all lopsided,

and she has these huge scars around her mouth. I'm just trying to make her

look normal so she can get work again. "

Since collagen has only a short-term effect, surgeons have already gone on

to more drastic remedies: Fat suctioned from other parts of the body--the

thighs or the rear--ends up being injected into the mouth.

And it gets even crazier. There's a substance called alloderm, which is

actually strips of skin recycled from cadavers. Plastic surgeons tunnel it

in strips through the lips, starting at the corners of the mouth. It

results in the same puffed-up pouter, but this stuff stays around longer

than either the fat or the collagen.

Another method is to take a strip of Gore-Tex and insert it above the

upper lip for that pouty look.

To balance those huge kissers, of course, stars are finding that they need

bigger jaws. Thus, the latest Industry fad: the silicone jaw implant.

" We make a flap inside the mouth and insert a tiny piece of silicone into

the part of the jaw where it angles up toward the ear, " says Dr.

Novack, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. " It gives that ina Poriskova

northern-European look they're all asking for. "

But you can't have a big mouth, a square jaw and flabby, blah

cheeks--hence what one surgeon calls " the Howdy Doody look " (without the

cute freckles).

Anybody had a good look at Cher these days? Not only has she had so many

face and brow lifts and eye jobs and nose tinkering that she looks like a

robot, but her cheeks look as if someone socked a tennis ball into each of

them. Likewise, Sally Field has suddenly sprouted cheekbones at the

advanced age of 50. Faye Dunaway got hers even later.

" These people think they retard the aging process, " says one doctor, " or

in some way keep you from having to have a face-lift. That's all BS. It

makes your face tighter for a little while; then you have something

sticking out of your cheeks and all the skin under it starts hanging down.

It looks completely out of whack. "

And speaking of out of whack, the development of smaller and smaller

tubes, or canules, for liposuction had made fat suctioning in the face a

big hit in Hollywood for a while. However, says one surgeon, " That's

become less fashionable lately. It tends to make them look gaunt, and in

this era of AIDS, people have gone off that. "

Which brings us to fat recycling. What you take off can, of course, be put

back. So, all over Hollywood, doctors are pumping fat out of love handles,

bottoms and tummies and reinjecting it into faces to plump up sagging,

aging skin.

Now, a Massachusetts company, Collagenesis, has come up with a new

wrinkle. They will collect the skin you have clipped from your tummy or

tush today and ship it by FedEx to their lab. And there it sits, in the

" bank, " until you and your surgeon decide to make a withdrawal. Then it's

simply injected back into your body to eradicate crow's feet, laugh lines

or any other groove or crater that needs puffing up.

By the time you're finished, you've added cheek implants, jaw implants, a

" tear trough " implant to take care of the sunken circles under the eyes,

shot fat into the cheeks, folded Gore-Tex into the marionette lines

between the nose and mouth, put a little Botox (a diluted botulism toxin

injected to paralyze facial muscles and prevent the ability to furrow or

crease skin) into the forehead, attached a nose prosthesis for a straight,

classic profile and a chin implant for some needed character. Is it any

wonder that Hollywood stars are all starting to look alike?