Majority of Americans Favor Cosmetic Surgery
More than 50% of Americans favor cosmetic surgery and would consider undergoing cosmetic surgery to improve their appearance. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 9.3 million cosmetic surgery procedures, both surgical and non-surgical, were performed in the U.S. in 2010, up 9% from the previous year. Over the past decade, cosmetic surgery has gone mainstream. No longer generating the “you didn’t!” shock it might have a decade ago, cosmetic surgery is now more apt to elicit admiring complements and requests for your Cleveland plastic surgeon’s name and phone number.
Despite its public acceptance, however, many women still prefer to keep their Cleveland cosmetic surgery procedure private. They’d rather chalk up their fabulous new look to “weight loss” or “a new skin care routine” than admit they “had some work done.” The desire to keep such a personal matter private is completely normal. However, when you’re thrust into the spotlight as Bristol Palin has been, both as a recent Dancing With the Stars runner up and as Sarah Palin’s daughter, privacy can be difficult to hold on to.
For the last couple of weeks, gossip columnists and celebrity magazines have been speculating about Bristol’s new face. Compared to photos taken during her stint on Dancing With the Stars, recent photos show a thinner Bristol with a less rounded chin and more pronounced cheekbones. At first passing her new look off as the result of weight loss, Bristol came clean to US Weekly, explaining that she had had corrective jaw surgery. Apparently a little embarrassed about the attention but obviously proud of her new face, Bristol denied having plastic surgery, telling reporters the surgery was medically necessary to correct a jaw alignment problem. Whatever Bristol chooses to call it, her new look is fabulous.