745: Khloé Kardashian, Cosmetic Work & The Beauty Standard

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Arts, Management & Marketing, Fashion & Beauty, Business

5 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this Five-Minute Friday episode, Dr. Kay discusses Khloé Kardashian's recent admission about her cosmetic procedures, including a nose job and past facial fillers. This candid revelation offers a much-needed breath of fresh air in an industry often fueled by denial and curated perfection.

Explore how the Kardashian aesthetic has influenced beauty standards for over a decade, and the consequences of denying cosmetic enhancements. Dr. Kay emphasizes that this transparency is crucial for fostering healthier conversations around beauty, allowing individuals to differentiate between naturally achievable looks and medically enhanced ones. Learn why honesty from public figures can empower young people, reduce societal pressure, and pave the way for a more authentic and liberating approach to beauty.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,
0:21.4	and it's time for a five-minute Friday. It's not every day that celebrities open up and tell us
0:29.1	about their cosmetic procedures. So I want to talk about Chloe Kardashian, the work, and the beauty
0:35.9	standards. And I love it, the transparency chloe recently came and told the world
0:43.0	exactly what she'd been getting done it was a really honestly such a breath of fresh air in this world
0:49.8	we're filtered selfies and all i do is drink water and do yoga and apply olive oil. All of that
0:58.2	baloney is out there in the universe. And guess what? We are over it. We want women who are clear
1:04.7	transparent who tell us what they've done, who are proud of being able to maintain themselves.
1:12.9	And I think this is really important.
1:17.9	We need to zoom out and talk about the broader context. The Kardashians and Chloe included,
1:22.0	they've been at the center of the conversation around beauty standards for over a decade.
1:30.5	From their teeny tiny waist to their full lips and impossibly smooth skin and all their curves. These Kardashians have been the blueprint for a whole generation of influencers and beauty trends, plastic surgery,
1:36.7	popularity requests. So much has been driven by the Kardashians. And if you think about it,
1:42.7	when I was growing up, beauty was very
1:45.8	Americanized and Caucasian. It was 17 magazine. It was blonde and blue-eyed. And it was very much
1:52.8	ethnocentric. It's so unusual that a group of brown-haired, brown-eyed, brown-skinned,
2:03.9	Armenian girls with Armenian heritage,
2:08.8	were able to break through all of those really heavy American beauty standards and kind of help us come upon this new generation of beauty. And so I'm super proud of them. They are very
2:15.1	petite and tiny ladies. They're not like 5'15, 5 foot 11 models,
2:22.1	like Amazon like models, skinny, and, you know, they are like full-bodied women. So when they
2:29.2	broke onto the beauty scene and when they started creating these trends, it was really something big. And it was the
2:34.8	beginning of understanding all different classes of beauty. It was the beginning of understanding,
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