Lisa Rinna’s Lip Trouble

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It’s hard to think about Lisa Rinna without conjuring images of those infamous lips.

While sitting in for April’s Divabetic’s Diva Inpsiration,  Kathie Lee Gifford on “Today” , Lisa was taken by surprise when co-host Hoda Kotb interrupted the “Celebrity Apprentice” star and said, “Wait, can I ask about your lips?” Of course, this is a topic the 49-year-old has gotten used to talking about over and over again, but she kindly rehashed the issue for Hoda:

“Here’s the story: 25 years ago, I had my lips injected with silicone. Stupid thing to do at 24. I saw ‘Beaches.’ Remember that movie ‘Beaches’? I did it with my best girlfriend, so she and I go and we get our lips done. Fine. I have it like that for my whole career, right? So then cut to a couple of years ago, I have a doctor remove as much as they possibly can because it got to the point where they were yucky. You know, they get hard. It’s gross. They are now whatever that was after they took out as much of the silicone as they could.”

The self-proclaimed lip injection “pioneer” goes on to tell Hoda that she wouldn’t change a thing about her plastic surgery past. “I never had a career before I had the lips,” she says. “So my lips have had their own career.”

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Disturbing Ad Features Little Mermaid Getting Plastic Surgery

Surely a Disney princess doesn’t need any work done, right?

Well, don’t ask a plastic surgeon that, because apparently, the iconic Little Mermaid was a prime candidate for few procedures  BuzzFeed’s Copyranter spotted this ad from Clinica Dempere, a plastic surgery center in Venezuela, who decided to give Ariel the old nip and tuck anyway in a new spot for their services. After seeing the ad we’re scratching our heads saying, “How insane?!!!”

After Ariel escapes from the evil Ursula, she’s seen on the operating table, where, sprawled out before a beckoning surgeon, she gets her wishes granted without giving away her magic voice box.

So, what procedures did the Little Mermaid opt for? She seems to have gotten the full “Real Housewives” treatment with a boob job and a widened pout. And somehow, the doctors in Venezuela managed to sculpt a pair of sexy human legs outfitted with stilettos out of her mermaid tail.

While people have tried to digitally slim down other “Mermaid” characters in the past, the introduction of cosmetic surgery into the pot is definitely an even more somber message to young girls. The clinic’s ad is surely an attempt to be cute, but seriously, Ariel: you look great under the sea as is.

We all want our children to have good relations with their peers as well as have a great self-image. Girls in particular often struggle with poor body image, peer and social pressures to look a certain way, or can lose confidence in their academic abilities during adolescence. Obviously, ads like this don’t  help our cause to empower, encourage and motivate women of all ages to feel healthy and beautiful. We wish these plastic surgeons would take a tip from Divabetic icon,  Patti LaBelle and get ‘A New Attitude!” about the  way they advertise their services.

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Celebrity Earlobe Surgery On The Rise

Big earrings were all the rage in the 1980s, but big earrings could cause long-term wear and tear. “Lobe jobs” are a surgical procedure that reduces the size of stretched ear lobes, most likely caused by heavy earrings.

The procedure generally takes about 45 minutes. Lobe lift and repair costs about $2,500 and could be covered by insurance. Maybe divas like Jennifer Lopez and Cyndi Lauper are interested?

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4 Reasons Not To Get A Boob Job

1.  According to the National Institute of Medicine, 25 to 40 percent of people who get breast implants end up needing another operation to correct something wrong with the first one.

2)  A study by a maker of saline breast implants, Mentor, found that 27 percent of implants put into breast cancer patients had to be taken back out again within three years, due to side effects.  Another 13 percent had to have lesser corrective surgeries.  The competing manufacturer McGhan/Inamed/Allergan has similar numbers.  Even for healthy patients, both were forced to admit that “most women experienced at least one complication over the three year period”.

3)  In general, breast cancer patients have complications with implants far more often than healthy people do.  Many of the complications are about three times as likely for mastectomy reconstruction patients as for cosmetic augmentation patients.  We regard this as socially the most acceptable and necessary time for implants to be used, but medically it is the most risky and unjustifiable time to use them.  If you don’t have a healthy body at the start when you’re getting the implants, the odds of keeping healthy with them in place plummet.

4)  Up to 9 percent of saline implants end up deflating within just three years, according to the Food and Drug Administration.  The FDA also found that complications become more and more common for each year implants spend in the body.

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