Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and I have a very interesting podcast to do with you today.

I wanted to talk all about toxic masculinity in aesthetics and in plastic surgery and just kind of toxic masculinity in general.

In medicine, it's still a thing in surgery, especially plastic surgery.

It's definitely still a thing.

This whole idea and conversation about toxic masculinity in the aesthetic world has come about

because one of my very dear friends,

Shaline Johnson, who is a wonderful fitness buff, marketing expert, boss girl, podcaster, all the things.

She had a very terrible experience with her own aesthetic procedure, and she's been very public

about it.

I encourage all of you to go to her page at Shaline Johnson.

That's C-H-A-L-E-N-E Johnson. Check it out, read her highlight button, and especially

if you're a woman, especially if you're considering an aesthetic procedure, she raised so many

good points. And I was so shocked and horrified to hear the experience that my very

wonderful, educated, knowledgeable friend went through.

And if it can happen to her, it can virtually happen to anyone, anyone.

I think women have specific vulnerabilities when it comes to aesthetics.

We're coming into a provider's office at a time in our lives when we feel vulnerable and we don't feel

ourself, we don't have self-identity, what we want it to be. We feel something slipping from

our self-identity of what we used to have and we're seeking help from someone. And that is

revealing some of your most intimate vulnerabilities to somebody. Plastic surgery and aesthetics

is dominated by men. That is just the way of the world and that is the industry that we've been

born into here. And that's the evolution of this field. It was very much a male-dominated field.

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