You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can’t really do anything. You’re like, ‘Man, am I ever going to heal?’
I don’t think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn’t know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
When I was 13, I came back from summer camp – summer of ’74 – and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn’t cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, ‘My accounting book is different from yours.’ Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married.
The lap-band surgery has been tremendous.
Eventually, I developed compartment syndrome in my calf and had to get surgery. I run three to five days a week now, mixed in with walking and other things. I want to run just because I enjoy it.
Ageing is one of those battles you’re not going to win. I’ll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don’t think I’ll do cosmetic surgery because I’m a wimp.
In our profession if you’ve got an ugly mark or there’s anything that cosmetic surgery can do for you I think it’s absolutely fine. I would consider it, but I’ve been very lucky not to have to.
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It’s awful.
In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.
I’m a little bit wary of people. It freaked me out when a fan connected with me on social media, then had plastic surgery to look like me, dyed his hair the same colour, and got a pug dog like mine. He was also a hacker, so I had to change all my passwords.
My father is a big guy; he’s had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that’s scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don’t want that.
I think I’m the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn’t had plastic surgery, so somebody’s gotta play the old-lady parts!
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
There was always the next therapy appointment, next surgery, next college exam, but with time and deep thought, those evolved into life lessons, which then evolved into perspective.
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
I had cataract surgery a while back.
Everybody literally thinks I’ve had plastic surgery. My mom’s family call her, and they’re like, ‘Did Hailey do her lips? Did she do her nose?’ Do people want me to go to a doctor and have them examine my face so they can tell people I haven’t? My face has just matured. I grew into my looks.
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It’s like a slippery slope – once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do the other side.’
This is how I feel about cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. If people want to do it for themselves – it’s fine. If people want to do it for the outside world, that’s when it’s not necessarily a healthy thing.
My dad’s a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
I think when you go through any surgery, your body changes. And with that, it can be probably the toughest mental challenge you’re gonna face.
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
It’s tricky to say ‘never,’ but I will never have plastic surgery.
I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said ‘oh, you need surgery,’ it was really weird – it was appendicitis.
I won’t have plastic surgery. You either take me as I am, or you don’t.
When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn’t do anything about it.
Imagine someone who has had a heart attack on the street, and they are picked up by an ambulance with 5G connectivity, hi-definition scanners, and cameras… You start taking a scan in the ambulance so all of that data is transferred to the surgery before the patient arrives, and a diagnosis is already underway.
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn’t gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he’s still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
One boob was a 36B while the other was 36D – I’ve had big boobs since the sixth grade and walked around with double bras on for five years before getting surgery.
I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I’ve got freeze dried food, I’ve got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.
The hardest part was four days after the surgery – my heart rate was very high, I was choking, I couldn’t cough, and I started crying. And it was seeing the way my chest looked, definitely deformed. I’m a fit guy, I’m a skinny guy, but to look in the mirror I was bloated with all of the meds.
I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, ‘Don’t get your bandage dirty. Don’t go outside and throw the ball.’ But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I know that I definitely don’t want to be a consistent plastic surgery, cosmetic kind of scenario. I don’t like going to the hospital. I don’t want to put myself through pain. So I’m very limited; I know what I need, and then I call it a day.
If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there’s a point where you go overboard.
Today I would say, ‘I am against plastic surgery.’ It’s a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
I had surgery on my core muscles. They were ripping apart.
I was ‘The Guy’ for NXT, the hottest brand in the entire world. I came through knee surgery and two shoulder surgeries to get to that point.
After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I’d be able to compete again.
It’s been a long road of self-transformation for me, and I’m so grateful for the care I received at NYU Langone with Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langer, one of the best transgender surgery specialists in the country.
If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn’t write, I don’t know if I would do surgery.
I thought that the fashion world could be a bit fake sometimes, but it’s nothing compared to Hollywood. These girls would walk over their grandmothers’ graves to get a part, and the producers talk about actresses like they’re dirt, picking over every part of them so that they end up paranoid and having surgery.
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.
Surgery was the most challenging scenario I ever had to face. Being bed-ridden for four weeks and not being able to walk for eight, I definitely had the lowest point in my life.
