361. The psychology of plastic surgery ft. Dr Rady Rahban
The Psychology of your 20s
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Plastic surgery rates are on the rise, especially amongst people in their 20s, so what drives people to get plastic surgery? How does it intersect with psychology, insecurity, confidence, class, social media? In today's episode we are joined by Dr Rady Rahban, a board certified plastic surgeon operating out of Beverley Hills to discuss:
- What drives people to get plastic surgery?
- Why are we seeing more and more extreme surgeries?
- The role of social media, filters and AI
- When is plastic surgery not just about insecurity?
- Can you be truly body positive and still get plastic surgery?
- How common is surgery addiction?
- What you REALLY need to know before you get plastic surgery!
Plus so much more! Listen now!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.4 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, |
| 0:33.4 | old listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode |
| 0:38.8 | as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s. Today, I hope you are ready for a big |
| 0:46.5 | episode, a very long episode, an incredibly interesting episode. We are talking about the psychology |
| 0:53.4 | of plastic surgery. We know that there is this |
| 0:56.5 | huge intersection between plastic surgery and psychology, between plastic surgery and insecurity, |
| 1:04.4 | social conditioning, social media, self-confidence, and sometimes it stirs up a lot of debate online and in our own conversations. |
| 1:13.8 | I've always wanted to do an episode on this, but I am not an expert, so I thought I would bring |
| 1:18.7 | on somebody who most certainly is, somebody who has decades of experience navigating this |
| 1:26.8 | industry, navigating the emotions to do with plastic surgery, |
| 1:30.9 | navigating every single little bit and part of, yeah, of this experience and of this process. |
| 1:39.1 | So I'm so excited to have him on board for a super interesting conversation. |
| 1:45.3 | Whatever you believe, I just feel like you can learn so much from how he approaches this, |
| 1:51.8 | what we talk about, the nooks and crannies that we get into. |
| 1:55.5 | So without further ado, let's talk about the complex, interesting, incredibly fascinating |
| 2:00.6 | psychology of plastic surgery. |
| 2:03.4 | Dr. Rati Raban, welcome to the show. Can you introduce yourself to the audience and just tell them |
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