Breast Augmentation, Rhinoplasty, Lipos and Botox Injections
I am sure when our moderators see this title, they will reach their mouse straightaway to issue infractions to Varalotti. For how can beauty techniques can come even a mile near Wednesdays With Varalotti?
But this thread is to review a fascinating book which I finished reading a few days back – Confessions Of A Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon by Dr. Cap Lesesne (pronounced le-SAYn).
Every chapter in the book, every page in a chapter, every paragraph in a page, every line in a paragraph and every word in a line is interesting. Your heart becomes so full after reading the book that it is quite some time before you are ready to pick your next book.
Now again I am raising the beautiful eyebrows of our ever-beautiful moderators, also causing a mild frown in their face. After donkey’s years in IL, Varalotti does not know to which forum does a book-review belong? I can hear their sweet but angry voices. But ladies, this is not just a review. This is sharing a wonderful experience of reading a wonderful book.
Once you read the 273 pages of the book, not only you will show more respect to plastic surgeons, but also you will understand better the needs of those who approach them.
The author of this book a flourishing plastic surgeon in the prestigious
Park Avenue has more women clients than men. (It was surprise for me to know that even men in their 60s approach plastic surgeons to redo their face, to work on their eye-lids so that they appear younger to their new-found girlfriends).
Women come to him for various reasons – either to cut down their abdominal fat by a Lipo, have some breast-implants, lift up their faces, correct their noses or even breast reduction.
Before I read the book I used to philosophise : What’s the use of bodily beauty? What’s more important is the inner beauty. The Doctor says with fullest conviction that once you change something external about you (could be sagging breasts or expanding waistline) then there is a profound change in the internal dimension as well.
Once the surgery is over and the wound is healed the patients go out into the world, though not as better women, but surely with more confidence and greater convinction in their own strengths.
The Doctor says that some women are naïve enough to believe that their men would not find about their “implants” . He says that almost all men find that out within nanoseconds.
For models, actresses and public figures, plastic surgery is kind of inevitable, an unavoidable occupational hazard. Life at the top is usually highly insecure and those frail women welcome any kind of security-aid, most of all the scalpel of a skilful surgeon.
The book is written in almost conversational form and you can never put it down till you finish it. Some tidbits thrown in border on gossip but makes the book all the more interesting. Be it waists or breasts, the kind of attention the Doctor gives, the details that are necessary before a procedure is decided upon is simply amazing.
Some anecdotes are very moving like the woman who was snubbed by her husband for the size of her breasts. She lets the remarks go. But after a while the husband realises his mistake and as a gift to her, gives money to her for a breast augmentation surgery. The surgery is so successful that the woman begins to exude confidence.
A few months later she leaves her husband for another man. Bard’s famous lines came to my memory: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
There is also the interesting story of a marketing executive who wanted to look like the King, Elvis Presley. Post surgery, he kicks off his job and goes to the theatre to repeat what the King had done a few decades earlier.
And there is the humorous incident of a woman who insisted on an implant, two sizes too big. The Doctor strongly advised against that. But the patient persisted and had her way. Subsequently she was involved in a rollerblade accident and came to the Doctor for consultation. The Doctor thought she would blame the implants and then he could have the satisfaction of saying, “I told you so.” Instead the patient says “I would have broken my ribs if not for those big, wonderful….”
To be a good plastic surgeon medical knowledge and deft hands are not just enough, one has to have the eye and mind of Michael Angelo. And this Doctor has them all.
There are some tragedies as well. A paraplegic who had many cosmetic surgeries dying due to some other complications, a man who had come for cosmetic surgery but had cancer inside him and died a few weeks later – these are sure to rend our hearts.
The Doctor’s personal life itself is a soft tragedy. Having given beauty and a meaning in life to many women, he could not find a woman for himself. A former wife almost wrecks his career though he comes out of that all, unscathed.
And finally you should know about his patient Alma. While operating on her for something else the Doctor decides independently and removes the breast implants placed in her in an earlier surgery. The patient, surprisingly ratifies the doctor’s action and even praises his aesthetic sense. She thinks that she had been made more beautiful.
But the punchline of this story belongs to her loving husband who told the Doctor after the surgery:
“Thank you so much. It is not that she is more beautiful to me, because that is not possible. But now my wife knows just how beautiful is the woman I have been looking at for fourteen years.”
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