Cosmetic surgery comes out of the closet
MSNBC
Once secretive, patients increasingly strut their stuff
When Sylvia Andis decided to get a face lift, it wasn’t something she tried to hide. In fact, she allowed a local news crew in Miami to document her experience. And a little over a month after going under the knife, she happily attended a “coming-out” luncheon thrown by her girlfriends.
“Patients used to stay in and come out a month or two later and pretend nothing happened,” says Andis, 49, a real-estate broker. “But it doesn’t bother me that people know.”
Once reserved for the rich and famous, cosmetic surgery has become increasingly common among mainstream Americans, and more widely accepted, too.
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