It drops names!!!!!!
July 13, 2006 -- PASSED around hand-to-hand last week in the Hamptons was an advanced bootleg copy of
Alex Kuczynski's coming Doubleday book "Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery." It drops names. The chapter headed "
Harvey Weinstein's White White Teeth" comes with eight backup reaffirmation confirmations.
She tells of high-maintenance N.Y.C. ladies who work on their looks 24 hours a day, and Hollywood types who even nip and tuck private areas so those are as taut as the pulled faces, and surgery safaris where packs go together en masse for lifts-redos-chin implants-Botox-lipo-breast augmentation-breast reduction-leg deveining-Restylane-collagen-laser-microdermabrasion jobs.
Chapter one mentions savvy dermatologist Dr.
Pat Wexler, whose clients, the book says, include
Renée Zellweger and
Ellen Barkin. It says she siphons fat from the behinds of folks like the equally savvy public relations lady
Peggy Siegal and stores it - the fat not the behind - then injects a syringeful each month into whatever crinkles and wrinkles developed in the interim.
A couple of pages later, Kuczynski immortalizes an Upper East Side podiatrist, who specializes in de-bunioning and de-corning, the better to wear $1,000 sandals. Dr.
Suzanne Levine quotes divorcees saying: "I need my feet to look good. I can't get in the shower with a new man with these feet." Her walls show photos of folk like
Katie Couric and
Joan Lunden. (Can it be that morning TV is hard on the metatarsals?)
Kuczynski is an accurate and wicked reporter. I know. I experienced both qualities when she did a New York Times piece on me. We're informed buttock lifts came in vogue with the ascent of
Jennifer Lopez. We're tantalized by which top actresses might be Botox'd up the kazoo because, per the author, their foreheads barely move. She gift-wraps them as "motionless and overparalyzed."
She warns of the dangers of changing one's look, citing
Jennifer Grey, whose nose job caused such drastic change in her looks that her career went to "mostly made-for-TV movies and 'Bounce,' a 2000 box-office disaster starring
Ben Affleck."
She ricochets from
Melanie Griffith to
Dennis Quaid to
Pamela Anderson. Cites doctors who give
Robert Redford the sun damage award and
Bill Murray the acne award. And reports writer
Nora Ephron spends more on her hair than she did on her first car.
If you've finished "War and Peace," it's not a bad little read.
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New book: Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery
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