Nip/Tuck Review of Beauty Junkies

Submitted by Adriana Rae on October 22, 2006 - 16:56.

Diana McLellan reviews the bestselling book, Beauty Junkies, in Today's Washington Post. Here's an excerpt;

The New York Times's racy feature writer Alex Kuczynski has written Beauty Junkies , an exposé of the cosmetic surgery industry. And she really knows her stuff. The 30-something beauty confesses that she hopped aboard the fix-me train at age 28. At first, it was just a couple of Botox shots to the brow. (Scowling over a computer all day, every writer knows, encourages piles, dowager's hump and eye trouble -- but exacts its most visible toll between the eyebrows.) Later, she was persuaded by her doctor to have her almond-shaped, slightly slanted blue eyes "fixed" to reduce the volume above the upper lid -- excising that enchanting, extended epicanthic fold that gives Charlotte Rampling, Kathleen Turner and, in an earlier generation, Simone Signoret their bedroom eyes. She's had lard lipo'd from her thighs. She's spent many thousands on "maintenance."