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Talking All Things Plastic Surgery with Dr. Tutela

May 30, 201940 minSeason 1Ep. 41
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I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama, and a worker being. This is life English. So UM. We've been talking about bringing in a doctor friend of mine and he is going to be joining us very soon. But I really wanted to dive into this um topic

because I think it affects a lot of us. We all have mothers, sisters, cousins, friends who want to tweak or do something with their parents. They don't exactly know how to go about doing it. And you know, I think that obviously a board certified plastic surgeon is the way to go, and especially because we live in New York in the Tri state area, there are many to go around. Here's the thing. I feel like people are so quick to just go with somebody because they don't

want to do the research. They don't, especially especially now with Instagram, it's like people dm each other doctors like, oh his work is fire, look at that waist, and then that's it. That's how you're going to pick your doctor and let's not let's not get started on you know, the fact that Latina's love traveling for surgeries. That's something that we definitely have to talk to him about. UM. Okay,

So I wanted to bring in Doctor to Tell. I met Doctor to Tell a years ago and it was through um a mutual friend, and I just formed a connection with him. He reminds me a lot of my brothers, and I trust my brothers, and he is a board certified plastic surgeon. UM. I like to call him the doctor to the stars and me, but he only does my botox. But Doctor to Tell, I, thank you for

joining us, Thank you so much for having me. Well, we were talking about honey, and I wanted to ask you a couple of questions just about like what's going on in plastic surgery right now, because I feel like we've seen so many different shifts, Like for a while it was all about boob jobs, you know, and then then it kind of goes in waves, right Like, what would you say, is like the biggest request that you

get right now? Absolutely right now? Um, you know, the biggest thing that's kind of been an uptick in the last five years, is things like Brazilian butt lift or adding volume and shaped her hips or were end Uh that that's as far as like surgical procedures in general, non surgical procedures or the thing that's kind of like the fastest growing part of the market, and that includes UM things like botox filler injectables, and then non surgical

fat reduction like cool sculpting, And there's even a new UM device on the market called m sculpt which is a non surgical way to actually help build muscle. Oh wow, so then nuts for the really lazy people then you just sit back. Is that it's almost like a tens unit, right, Yeah, pretty much. It's kind of it feels like electrical stimulation and it just kind of activates the muscle that it's over UM and it's supposed to increase growth of the

muscle that it's being used. But don't you think that this whole trend, Like a lot of the plastic surgeons that I've read about, they say that they can lend this whole thing to the Kardashians because previously, like j Lo, the Kardashians, I think that they started highlighting like their

natural you know natural No. J Loo was natural yea, yeah, absolutely, and she and the popularity I think began with her and that was you know, good five or ten years before the Kardashians even for sure, when she did Selina, I think that's when everybody started seeing. That's when everybody was like, oh, it's okay to be thick and have

an ass right because of her. No, and she did change I think the cultural shift of what people were looking for where you can actual question, were you taken aback when that started happening, because before it was just everybody wanted to be very tiny. Everybody wanted to be very slim and just booby and that was it. And then all of a sudden, people want but I remember before was just StairMaster and ellipticals and and everybody was like, no, my butt can't be big. Were you shocked in a

way like what's happening? I mean I wasn't shocked. I was still kind of young when j Lo really hit the scene, so like that was kind of the error that I was growing up in Okay, So you grew

up in normal for me. But I know, you know, looking back at you know, the trends of you know, popular women models and yeah, and it went from super super skinny, you know that waif look kind of in nearly nineties Kate Moss and totally like that, and then now you know, finally, you know, women with a lot of curves are are in Yeah, pour glass the whole, but like the just say the honey, because you know,

I've got a pancake booty. I've actually talked to doctor to tell us, Yeah, I wanted to get my boobs redone because I had breast implants a long, long time ago after having two children, breast fed two children. You know, things aren't exactly sitting the way that they were before. But I think that a lot of people take plastic surgery very lightly. I mean, it is a major surgery. Yeah,

it should not be taken lightly. You know, any of these surgeries, you know, I think are major surgery UM, and they should be taken seriously, you know, both by the patient and obviously by the surgeon. UM. And you know, I think that you need to do your due diligence when you're trying to figure out who you want to trust, you know, your body with and your care with UM and things like looking for somebody who's board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery is really the start

of it UM. So from there then you want to look at the UM doctors, you know, reviews and before and after photos not some people. People will go on Instagram and my home girl went to this doctor. I'm going to go to him and he is in Higalia and he practices out of his garage, like just like entering. I mean, it's true. People are getting injected with like cement in like w D forty it's bananas. Like these

stories are out of control. Yeah, there are a lot of crazy things going on out there, which is why you know you have to do that yourself. You have to do your due diligence and do your own research for the procedure that you think that you want UM and then for the for the right surgeon. Now, let me ask you a question. I feel like a lot of that stuff is being done because people equate plastic surgery. Would it be very expensive? It's like I'm gonna cut corners.

I'm gonna try to do it cheaper. I only have five hundred dollars, and I want to ask I don't have ten thousand. Are there alternate ways that people can pay for plastic surgery if they don't have let's say, ten thousand dollars in the bank to give to a doctor. Yeah. Absolutely, there are a lot of financing options, either directly with the surgeon's office, although more commonly are with a third party kind of creditors, things like care Credit, Alphaeon Credit,

United Medical Credit. There are a lot of players in that mark it that allow for financing and financing options, and even some plastic surgeon's offices. The way that the plans are set up, you know that they take and you know, pay for part of your interests what you pay for part of your interests, and a lot of options to make it affordable where you don't have to cut corners with choosing you know, maybe a less reputable provider going out of the country, which you know is

also another big trend. Yeah, we wanted to talk about that because there are so many people who will be like, oh, I went and I got a full body makeover in Colombia for five thousand dollars, and it's like, I don't know if that's really the best idea, you know, what would you say? So there are a lot of people who think that because they can go to their home country, they can get things for cheaper. Have you seen anything

like that yourself in your practice? Yeah, I mean I have, and I've seen a lot of people, you know what I'm covering the emergency rooms, uh, that come into the er. You know, they had surgery, you know, to the country, so now they're recovering, you know, back thousands of miles away from the surgeon that operated on and they have nobody to take care of them. You know, when one little problem comes up, you know, there are a lot

of things. You know, as a trained surgeon, you know what to do to keep a small problem from becoming a tragedy. Um. And if you come back to your home city and you're miles and miles and miles away from your surgeon, you know, there's no one who's going to take care of you. You know, no one is invested in you as a patient, in your outcomes, in

your you know, in your hometown and uh. You know, oftentimes we see problems that you become disasters, and they could have been easily avoided if they were being taken care of by a surgeon you know nearby. Well, how hard is that for you too? It's almost like you have to be a detective, like finding out what did they do or you know what exactly it is that you're correcting, or you have to help them with. Yeah. Yeah, you know a lot of times it's uh, you own

infection or something like that. And once they've gotten you know, past a certain point, it's not even like aesthetics that you're trying to um salvage. But you know the patient's health, you know, so you treat it like any other you know, big you know, infection or something like that, and try and get them well before you can even start talking about you know, how do you now make this look pretty?

And you know that's one of the things is that you know, when you try to save money by you know, cutting corners and now you're back home and you could be in the hospital with a huge hospital bill. You know, most insurances don't cover don't cover that part of your recovery.

All for the booty, that's all for the booty. I mean, it is so nutty, um doctor to Tella, Um, I wanted to know what you think are the most important or I'm sorry, I would like to know what you think is the most important thing for a woman to do before she goes to meet with a plastic surgeon. Let's say her friend told her this guy is really great, Like, what do I think is the most important thing for her?

I would say, you know, first of all, yeah, first of all, note know what your goals are, UM, because I think that is how you know you you end up being happy. And that's one of my first things I do when I meet a patient is to try and tease out what their goals are. Some people, you know, know it and say it and articulate it very well. Other people, you know, you kind of get it through the conversation. You know what they're really looking for. UM. So start off by knowing what you want UM, and

that's gonna you know, help everything. And then you know, you have to do your research and look for somebody. They could be recommended by a friend and that they're very happy with. But you know, go onto their website, see that um they're you know, board certified again by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. I see if they're associated with any national societies like the a s PS

or the a S a p s UM. And then you could look through their own either social media or their real self profile or their website for before and after pictures see if you like their results. Do they consistently provide something that you are you know, amazed by or you're just like not so hot on it? And you know, find somebody that kind of you know, checks all the boxes. Yeah, now, who let me ask you a two part question when it comes to celebrity. What's

the number one booty that people show you? And what's the number one face that people show you when they're like, this is what I want? You know. It's actually amazing is that most of the time now you're hardly really seeing a lot of celebrity which picks and a lot of them they're like Instagram models. That's not to be honest, I don't even know here we go, I'm over here trying to find out who I need to look like, and you're like, I don't know the name, but she

had seventy million followers. Really, so they're they're more about the Instagram. That's why people are influencers. That's why people look the same. Yeah, it's true. No, it's so crazy. And now, you know, even back in the day where you would have to go to a doctor's office, do you think that it's changing because so many plastic surgeons are on social media. Now you can go on Instagram and check them out. You actually, I refuse to watch dr to tell us stories while I'm eating because you

do procedures. No, but it's so good And then after he'll get these after photos and I'm like, damn, that is great work. That's what she was doing for. Yes, but like, do you think that that has changed the game for plastic surgeons and just for the medical field in general. I mean I think a little bit. Uh. You know, you're able to reach a bigger market and

people are seeing your work um first, which is great. Um. But at the same time, you know, as a patient, you still have to beware and always kind of again like I said, kind of do your due diligence and research people because you know how people take pictures and selfies and there's filters and things like that. There are easy ways. You know, you don't have to by results. How let me ask you a a question, how does that work?

When you when we see a doctor doing surgery on Snapchat, do you tell your patient like, Okay, we're gonna go on social media. How does that work? I've always wondered that. Yeah, absolutely. You have to get express consent for hand um really for all pictures or videos. That's why you're not seeing my boobies. I'm not giving you my consent. My boobies done, but go ahead. No, he'll put little hearts over the so they're like, they're just like, oh, I'm down to

be on social media. Put me on chef that be on Instagram specifically, or just my website, my you know, in office photo book or you know. So we make sure that they're they're okay with him. But you know, what is the tell when people have tattoos, because you're like, damn, we're all with the dragon tattoos. She gotta that would

amend me. Yeah, no, but it's so true because people think that they're anonymous and then another person from their family could be looking at your absolutely so, and that's another thing that sometimes can be challenging. But you know, we always also make sure they know, well, you know, your tattoos in this and some people ask for the tattoo to be blurred out. Um in another way. Most people though, now and this is something that's kind of

called me off Carse, they don't really don't care. They're just like whatever, just show it. And that brings me to this. Before people were so a secretive about surgeries that they would never tell you they got anything done, not the phase, not the boobs. What do you think has changed in our in our culture that everybody's like, oh, I just got my tip's done yesterday, and I got some libo and I got some butt shots and these are fillers, Like what do you think it's changed culturally

that people are now so open about plastic surgery. I think social media has changed the game, you know, on a lot of levels, in a lot of different fields. Um. And I think that you know, people are now always used to looking at themselves, you know, a thousand times

a day. You know, you used to take a picture, or somebody would take once a month or something, but you would take a picture, and you know, you never even knew whether you'd be there when that film got developed, or if you ever saw that he has a shoe box fill of like thirty five millimeter film that still needs to get developed, that that's probably like my holy communion. Yeah yeah, but it's true. We have all of these photos here and the selfies. I think that we are

examining ourselves so much more in depth than we ever have. Yeah, and immediately, and if you don't like something, you know, you turn your head a little bit chinned down a little bit right, or you find a filter exactly. So you know, I think people are are just kind of like looking at themselves so much more now, um, and looking at everybody else so much more now, right, because it's just flooded with that kind of content. So I think that when people make a change for themselves, they

want to flaunt it. They do want to. They kind of want to show off and show what they've done. You want to. You know, it's like I went through all of this just to get it done. Now I want to show everybody that I did it. So now, what do you say about the younger generation, meaning the young ladies who are coming in for their sweet sixteen there, you know, before high school graduation. Do you have any reservations about doing any type of surgery on on young

women like that? Yeah? I mean, you know, I don't see too many people that are that young, um. But kind of where it's a little bit more common is when you see people, you know, again sweet sixteen something like that, maybe before they get their driver's license, uh, for rhino plasty or nose job. You know, usually not

seeing people for breast augmentation or other bodywork that young. Um, but something you know on the face after fifteen sixteen years old, you know, for the most part, the cartilage in their nose is fully developed and grown and is you know, a static um part of their body. You know. I think it's fine, you know, as long as you find the right provider, uh, you know, to go ahead with that. But I think most surgeons either aren't seeing it or wouldn't see, you know, something really below eighteen

for like breasts or bodywork or anything like. Speaking of noses, I'm shocked by the way that people are doing noses now with fillers. How the hell does that work? Yeah, it's actually amazing, and I see a lot of sure, and it's it's amazing because it's it's immediate results. How long is the maintenance? So like, how long do they result? By the way, six months, like eight months and then you go back to your old nose. Yeah, yeah, but then you just come back in and get the new

nose again. I saw a nose and I was like, no, using a pro tractor. I haven't seen a pro tractor since I was like a high school, Like seriously, something had like some kind of device or something like that. This is why I'm not a doctor, right, It's so true. Fillers have changed the game for plastic surgeons. Yeah, absolutely and injectable. So now there are a lot of people who are listening to our podcasts that might not be able to afford it. I know we touched on it before,

but like, what would do say? Are the key things right now for women to start doing to take care of themselves if they don't want to go to a plastic surgeon. Uh, stay out of the sun or use sun block daily and reapply right because your morning makeup, tinted makeup that has m SPF in it is not really doing its job by noon anymore. I put it on right before I get in my car on my

left side because that's where my sun spots are. I will put on my SPF right before I get in the car because I know I have to drive to Long Island. It's gonna be an hour an hour and a half and I'm gonna get that. Yeah, it's just like I don't even care because I care more about my skin. I don't have this type of money to be buying all of these go back. It's true, It's true. So the sun block and then what else for people who are just looking for over the counter or you know,

something that they can get at their drug store. Sure, so some block is first because that prevents damage from happening. UM. And then you know, I would say any product that you could find that's got written all in it, right, and I'll as product I think is wonderful for just skin and keeping like a kind of young, kind of fresh look to your skin. UM. And then the key with that is also just to make sure that you're

using it correctly. You know, most retinal products are very often abandoned, either because people using they don't see a good results or um because they use it and it literally like burns their face and they throw it away and they're like, I'm never gonna So you know it should you're that tolerance though, right, yeah, you should. You should use it until it irritates you and then use it a little less. It's kind of you know, the

way you kind of find your dose. What would you say to a young lady, you know, do you deal with the psychological aspect like there are a lot of people who look at themselves and they really legitimately don't see what's in front of them. You know. Do you ever have people who come through that you're like, I'm not going to take this patient. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, it's not that often, but it's it's often enough that you need to kind of recognize the signs of somebody who's

you know, just mentally you know, unwell. Um, and it's you know, to some degree, you know, you're you're coaching them through you know, their office appointment with you, through their consul and you you start to realize that, you know, they are you know, hyper focused on the smallest details, even on their own face. Or let's say a lot of times they have come from another provider who they can't stand the work that was done, and I'm looking at it and I'm like, actually, I think that was

pretty good job. I would I would call that a you know, a good job and a great result. And they're like obsessed about you know, some other provider they did some horrible job to them, and you hear this term botched now it's all over the interesting. Yeah. Yeah, But so when when somebody who's coming in doesn't really have anything wrong with them, and they're like obsessed about, let's say, bashing their old provider, and you're looking at

them and they're okay. You know, you've got to just kind of guide them through that appointment and kind of reassure them that everything looks fine, and you know, then you don't necessarily want to be doing anything else to them. That's like a red flag girl for you, because they're going to go to another provider and talk about you and say that you didn't do a great job about So he's talking about me everybody. I like to go to him for botox and he keeps telling me, no, no,

I'm just kidding. No. Doctor to Tella, you have been so incredible And a lot of people say, I'm forty one. I'm very open about my age. I tell everybody, and I truly believe that he has changed my skincare routine, the way that I take care of myself, and like, I really am so satisfied. You know. Um, I think that as you get older, I've started bo talks like in the past as a preventative measure, but as I've gotten older, I've definitely recognized like the benefits of it,

you know. So I wanted to ask you about a couple of people that you have treated that are celebrities that you're allowed to talk about. If you are allowed to talk about. Yeah, they're very open and honest about stuff. A lot of them. They're on my social media on their social media talking about it. Absolutely. So Now when somebody is a semi celebrity or like a reality star or somebody like that, is that more enticing for you to take care of them, because then you know you're

going to get like basically free advertising. Sure. Um, you know, I'm excited to go to work every day. So I mean, I really love taking care of all my patients and I really feel actually blessed for my specific patient population. Um, you know, everybody's awesome, and everyone in my practice is kind of like family, you know, patients and staff and everyone's got a great relationship in that way. Um, so

it's hard to beat that, you know. Um, but I would just say that, you know, it's it's great to you know, let's say, meet somebody that maybe you've seen on TV for a certain amount of time and um, what's been really um really about the cast or many members of the cast from the Jersey Shore that I take care of is uh you know there, did you do Ronnie's light bulb? Okay, I just saw that in the news last week. Can I say it? Can I say? Angelina looks banging? She does look great. Seriously, You've done

an incredible job with her. There are a couple of other people that I know that you've treated, and people can go to your instagram. Do you want to shout it out? Yeah? Sure. The instagram is just my name to tell a PS, which stands for plastic surgery. It's t U t e l A p S. And will be sure to repost that so that people can find it. Like on our social course. It's great. You see a lot of great, great things on their results and stories.

I think are always fun to do. Um. But yeah, everyone's been so awesome, and I think that that was a nice and kind of um, you know, reinforce ment of all these people that I've taken care of that they're all very normal people, you know exactly what you kind of get past, um get past and you're like, oh, hey, how are you? Everyone is just super normal, super great, very kind to me and all my staff and just been wonderful to work with. Now I want to actually

question about lightbul suction. I had light boat like on my legs like twelve years ago. It was the most painful experience I've ever gone through in my entire life. How has light boat changed within the past decade so

that I can possibly want to go do it again? Um, I would say there there's been a lot of like little adjuncts to liposuction UM that I don't always use, but are available, things like vaser, which is an ultrasound um and uh smart light boat which is a laser and that helps kind of break up the fat and maybe do a little skin tightening UM at the same time. I need the skin tightening man that somebody needs to come up with the solution just skin tightening. I'm not

even kidding you. Isn't that the sculpture lift there? Well, no, sculpture is an injectable that will add volume, and so that's good for people who you know, need volume in their face or in their or in their buttocks, something like a little hip dip area on a thin woman who doesn't have any fat to transfer. You know, the first part of BBL or Brazilian butt lift is liposuction because you harvest fat from one area, you process it and then reinjected somewhere else. So sculpture is good um

for people who don't have the harvest. It's very expensive though, you know, the product itself is and it's really kind of way smaller volumes than we're really usually using for bbl um but something with who somebody who's got like a little hip dip and they don't need a lot of volume, but maybe just kind of round out, uh, you know, certain areas is good. But as far as lepolus auction goes, uh, you know, as far as like the pain of suction, maybe it was just a big

baby because I was so young. No, but you also went back to d R to tell them that you went to get it, didn't you get the LiPo and d R Yeah. Yeah, So this was the reason why we wanted to bring you in because there's a lot of people who, oh yeah, most a lot of my friends have traveled to either Dominican Republic or Colombia. But then they come back and it brings them back to what we were talking about. They have nobody to care

for them. They're like just fingers crossed that they can find somebody to take out stitches, fingers crossed that they don't get an infection, fingers crossed that they don't need more pain medication lying under those circumstances too. Isn't that when I got to Dominican Republic, I see them, you go to increase risk of blood cloths, you know, and that could always be tragic. So I don't know exactly, you know, whether they're being put on blood thinners by

their providers. I have actually a good number of out of state patients that come and see me. I always make sure that they stay in town, you know, for a little while. Um, and I always make sure, especially because they're going to be traveling, to put them on blood thinners, you know, because blood clots are real risk, you know, traveling alone and then with surgery is you know, can be tragic really, you know what I mean, those

compression stocks it's sexy to tell. I wanted to ask you if you know of any dangerous beauty trends that are happening right now. We heard in the news about the vampire um facial that some places, I guess we're either reusing needles and things like that. Yeah, Like, is there anything that you know of that like people should maybe stay away from until there's a little more research. Um.

That's interesting. You know, I think that you know, there are some places that are going to be injecting stuff that is literally no certified or board certified doctor would be doing something like a free silicone injection. You have to absolutely know and this happens a lot um, you know, on the cheap in bigger cities New York, Miami. So if anybody's injecting free silicone, which just means like a sir ringe full of like liquid silicone, you know, just

stay away and none of that stuff is regulated. Um. Going back to just bigger procedures, you know, the Brazilian butt lift, which is liposuction followed by fact transfer is actually one of the most dangerous uh plastic surgery procedures you could have done. Really yeah, you know globally. Um. And so that I think is also super important to make sure that you're going to a provider who you know does it a lot. Again, is board certified because they have task force uh within our you know, national

societies that come up with you know, best safe practices. Now, let me ask you a question. In in New York here we have a lot of what's called you know, the Instagram models, the bartenders, the dancers, and a lot of them are like super exaggerated when it comes to the booty areas cartoonists. Yeah, you know, is that what is in there? First of all? And second of all, is that fixable? Because sometimes I see it and I'm like,

this breaks my heart. I know she does not want this to look this way, right, Yeah, So it's hard to say for sure what's in there. It could be free silk, and it could be fat from you know, a BBL or fat transfer. Uh. And that's one of the things that's interesting you brought up the trend, uh that I think is now probably at the point where it's kind a little overboard, um where you know, the shape is now exaggerated. It's not just like a nice curby we're in, but it's it's sad at this point.

It's it's big and it doesn't look good fortunate. Yeah. So you know that's one of the things about trends that you have to be aware of, you know, how much you're going to dive into that. Can that be fixed? Yeah,

it could be, depending on what it is. You know, you could have but as a doctor and as a doctor, are you scared to go in there you don't know what you're gonna find, because like, if you don't know what's in there, how you only know unless you open them up, right, Yeah, I mean, well, you know, they may have a good history about what they had done. Um. And and I've definitely taken care of people and not known what I was going to see and you know,

found either you know, free silicone or something like that. Um. But you know, that's it's one of those things that you know, it's an exaggerated expression of a trend, and that's you know, one of the things as a patient you always want to just again, know what your goals are first and try to figure out, you know, the best way to achieve them, because then if the trend kind of pivots and goes another way, and now you're left out there with you know, this body part that

you don't want anymore now, piggybacking, piggybacking off of that. I always say, what's the problem. Have doctors not figured out how to do the legs? Because the legs are always so skinny. When I see the exaggerated acid, there's no situation for the legs yeah, no, I mean they're there definitely. Is just you know the fact that you take out and harvest. You could put like to but they're like, who cares about my legs? I just want to or they like or they like a thinner leg

but a bigger booty. I don't know. I haven't had that in my own practice. I just see it and I see it looks bizarre. Very Oh my gosh. No. Dr to Tella. We cannot thank you enough for coming through. And if there's any word of advice about the mommy makeovers, because I know there are a lot of women who are interested in that. You know, your body does go through so much when you're pregnant. What kind of advice do you have for a woman who's looking to do that,

like complete overhaul? Should she work out before she comes and sees a plastic surgeon? Should she change her diet? Like? What are the keys? You know? I think, um working out before you see anybody, any sort of weight loss that you think is achievable and kind of being at you know, fighting weight, I think is you know great for any surgery you're going to have done. You know, an excess weight is always gonna you know, um, decrease

your your own wound healing abilities. UM. And then as far as shape goes, you know, depending on what that weight number is. You know, if you've got ten or fifteen pounds to lose, that's maybe not such a big deal. But if you feel like you're on this weight lost journey where it's you know, excess of whatever pounds, I would say, lose the weight first, you know, so then um, you know, your surgeon isn't trying to hit a moving target. You know, you're just kind of at a stable weight

for a few months. UM. People who have like uh, you know, weight loss surgery, they'll lose rapidly and it's not a great time to do other surgery while you're in that um, you know state of metabolism. But just like mothers who are done having kids and they've had whatever their weight gaining weight loss from pregnancy is, you know, just get to a healthy weight that you feel good. UM. And then just make sure that you're seeing a surgeon that that does that a lot. You know again board

certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. You can look at their instagram for results and things like that. UM. And then just know that you know, you're not alone. And so many of these things are fixable. And that's what I probably see most of our mommy makeovers. And it's interesting because young mothers now are done, you know, having children, and they're on Instagram, so they're looking at themselves, they're looking at their friends. They want and there's a

desire to have their old body back. And I think that's probably one of the biggest trends in a way that you know, women after um, you know, raising children a little bit, are want you know, a sexier body back, and they're less okay with just being like, well, you know, I had kids and this is what I look like. This is fine, and it is fine. But so many of them are you know, they're they're determined to look amazing in a bikini again, and you can and you

can do it. So many of these things are fixable. Most of them are truly surgical in nature, so they are going to be some trends and fads that you know, it's a non invasive breast lift with some sort of you know, thermal device, and you know, I don't think they're going to get really what you want out of it.

You know, a lot of these things are, you know, extra skin that needs to be cut off, and you know, now, you know what, one of the first things that made me really trust you was that I went to doctor to tell after I had Asher and it was about a year I think after and I wasn't even really like at my fighting weight yet, and he said to me, he was like, look, you're gonna go through a lot

for very little. He could have easily just taken my money and been like, yeah, I'll give you, you know, a little tummy tucker or whatever, and he was just like, you know, reevaluated think about it. And I appreciated his honesty because I think there are a lot of doctors out there that are just ready to take your money. And he made me really think about like, no, you know what, I am a healthy person. I can achieve this on my own, you know. And so you were

really the catalyst that helped me. And that's why I tell everybody like, I've just enjoyed getting to know you through that experience. You know. But there are a lot of doctors out there that just want the quick fix, and they're like, well, we'll go ahead and take your five ten grand or whatever it is. Exactly let me see it all. And I see a lot of people you know that are like that, and I tell them, you know, I don't think that this is worth it. You know, I see what you're looking at. You have

a little extra loose skin. Yeah, everybody, it looked like a sad beagles like you know, but now I don't have them anymore. Not good, So you could do it? Yeah. So there's certain you know, borderline scenarios where I'll try to use a patient that you know, maybe surgery is not the best thing. And I also then you know, warn them to you know, if you go to enough surgeons, you're going to find somebody who will operate on you. Yeah,

and that's not necessarily the right the right answer. So well, I really quickly before you go, is there anything that guys should be doing, because we do have some guy listeners to be like podcasts. Can we talk about this new surgery men are doing where they have a complete

six pack and still have love handles? What is that your So that there is just like some high definition um, you know, body liposuction and even some some fat grafting, so kind of uh like with b B or or fat crafting anywhere else you harvest some fat and then with liposuction then you put it somewhere else. So there are some you know, techniques for liposuction of the abdomen where you kind of pal paid out, you know that um patients, you know, six pack abs, try and feel

them in there wherever they are. Sometimes it's under a little bit of cushioning and you can find and you can find them though, so they're light boing until you find that muscle right in a way and doing it in an exaggerated way where I always thought something was

in there. Well there you could then put fat back or just LiPo less over the muscle belly itself, like you know, the curve of the muscle, so you could just like leave some fat there and where the lines are, you know, do a little more, you think, honey, you think that because Drake and French Montana got me wondering like where did these did not grow overnight? Honey, we are not dumb, okay, And you can put implants in

there too, That's what I always thought it was. Really Yeah, yeah, there are certain soft silicone implants that you could put like in each you know. Wow, my questions have been so weird. I feel so bad for him. This has been amazing, you know, And I think the true takeaway is that, you know, the one thing that you said before, I would hate for anybody to go throughout their life

feeling bad about a certain part of themselves. Like things are fixable and there are options, but go through the right channel and get it done the right way, like if you want to get a nose job, if you want to get a breast job, like you can finance it, you know, I mean, And that's something that a lot of people feel like they're desperate. So I'm really really glad that you shed a lot of light for us

on this whole entire subject. Don't worry, I won't come back to your office for another three months and I got some time. Thank you so much for thanks so much, thanks for having me. Of course, I am just I'm thinking. I've been thinking. All my questions have been answered. I'm so happy right now. I know, I really do think that plastic surgery now it's not as taboo as before. You remember, people used to come out looking like cats and stuff, like back in the What's the Cat Lady?

They see exactly Jocelyn Wildondenstein. But yeah, that's the whole thing. It's like, you know, we have to be honest and we have to help each other out. You know. I'm just really glad that people are so open with it right now, like even us talking about it. People people can ask us questions like they DM me and then you know, before you would go you have nobody to talk to. Now you have blogs, Now you have videos

on YouTube explaining the dangers, the pros, the cons. So I'm really happy with where we are right now when it comes to plastic surgery. Me too. And I'm really glad that, like I don't have to lie to anybody, because, like I said, at this point, I'm truthful, like I do my BO talks, I don't do anything else. But like other than that, when I do the next thing, you all will know about it, trust me. And on

that note, we'll be back next time. Send us your emails Life and Spanglish Podcast at gmail dot com and make sure you subscribe. We've been rolling out to episodes per week and I don't want you to miss another five stars too. That's right. So you go on your way, you go to Abiza, yes, and then you'd be a good girl out there. Don't let anybody buy you drinks because you don't know what's in those things. First of all, I am think as hell. Ain't nobody in trying to

pick me up? It was Jamaica, girl, you in danger. It was Africa, honey, you in danger. But in Europe I don't want all this. Well, be safe, abe, We'll see you next time.

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